Epica announce new album ‘Omega’

EPICA have announced a new album!

Titled Omega, the upcoming album from the Dutch symphonic metal titans is their brand new full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming album is the band’s first album for five years, since 2016’s The Holographic Principle.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist/guitarist Mark Jansen says, “I am very proud of this album, as I am convinced we have written a very refreshing and well balanced album even after so many years of existence. Our strength is that we have many great songwriters in one band. We have managed to combine each other’s strongest qualities and selected the best songs. It was a fruitful period of spending time together to work as one team on those tracks. I think this has made the biggest difference compared to our previous albums. Still using the advantages of comfortably sending files by the internet to each other but combining that with coming physically together again to work on all the tracks. I think I have listened to Omega about 50 times already and still can’t get enough of it!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song from the upcoming album; Abyss of Time. Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, vocalist Simone Simons says, “finally we can show you the video for our newest single Abyss Of Time! We flew all the way to Poland to work with Grupa 13 for the first time. Shooting videos is one of my favorite parts of creating the visual side to our music. The costumes were insanely beautiful. It was so much fun and I hope that you like the video.”

Watch the official music video for Abyss of Time here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List:

1. Alpha – Anteludium
2. Abyss Of Time – Countdown To Singularity
3. The Skeleton Key
4. Seal of Solomon
5. Gaia
6. Code Of Life
7. Freedom – The Wolves Within
8. Kingdom Of Heaven, Part 3 – The Antediluvian Universe
9. Rivers
10. Synergize – Manic Manifest
11. Twilight Reverie – The Hypnagogic State
12. Omega – Sovereign Of The Sun Spheres

Omega is set for release on February 26th via Nuclear Blast Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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