a return to the symphonic sound with orchestra, with a very present choirs
and the distinct Simone’s style. For you ...What makes this production
different from the previous ones?
Yeah this time is a dizzy question, because we did so many things
different so, where can I start? so first of all yeah, Requiem for the
Indifferent we made more progressive album and it was the right thing
we could do at that time, but now for this time we thought, what can
we do to make some next steps for, and we, the first thing we decided
was that we want to work with a new producer, because we worked with
Sascha Paeth for the first twelve years of our existence, we worked with
him all the albums, but we thought, if we keep on working with Sascha,
even though is really good and really fit to Epica, if we keep on working
with Sascha the risk is that, we starts repeating ourselves, so we wanted
to change new producer, with fresh ideas, fresh view, fresh way of
working and the work is really well.
And this producer also suggested us to work more intensely on each
other’s tracks because everyone of us wrote some tracks and now this
time was for the first time in a long time, because in the beginning, we
also work like that for the Phantom Agony, Consign to Oblivion and now
we again we worked really intensely in each other tracks and even more
intensely than even in the past, and the producer was all the time there
and he was also given suggestions, so we had a lot of time for this album,
and we took that time because this last about like 3 months to work on
each other tracks and the tracks were written before that and then we
started also to experimenting a lot with the sounds, we tried different
amps, different drums kits, different base and we tried all combination
until we had a sound that fit really well together and all this preparation,
and demos and pre-production, we started finally recorder it.
So we were very well prepared and we knew also exactly what we were
going to expect, because we also heard the sounds a lot, so we knew that
it will work also live in very well way, and then the third thing that we also
change was; we even knew make sort that we work with, Jacob Hansen,
also worked for example for VOLBEAT and this guy give us also some
fresh elements in our sound, for example, when the guitars have to sound
really heavy, the sound now is really heavy, but when we have some
orchestra parts, they are orchestra parts, so it’s the priority sound it’s
really well balance, and I have the impression and I must say he did really
good job, and this mix was exactly the mix we need it for this material.
• Even though some days have passed since the release of The Quantum
Enigma, we would like to know how the reaction of your fans has been
Yes the reactions are really overwhelming, because everywhere I read
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