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EPICA Bassist Issues Studio Report

April 12, 2007

EPICA bassist Yves Huts has posted a lengthy studio report from the recording sessions for the band's new album, due later in the year. An excerpt follows:

"The life of a musician isn't always glitter and glamour. Sometimes we do actually have to work. Recording sessions are one of these rare occasions. Because during the recordings of the previous albums I was always too drunk and breaking stuff, I was banished from the Gate studio. So I was left with no choice but to record the bass at my home studio.

"When the album [is] released and people hear the songs for the first time they will probably be wondering why the album sounds like a batch of kittens getting flushed down the toilet. One explanation is that we only had three rehearsals before entering the studio. On top of that Ariën [van Weesenbeek] (our studio drummer) was still on tour when we recruited him. So he only had three days to prepare himself. Fortunately he's from some distant planet and his bio-implants allowed him to record the drums with inhuman precision at a record time. I guess the album will contain more than 60 minutes of songs, but he managed to record all the drums in just 53 minutes 25 seconds. I wish Einstein would have lived to explain this. I think it has something to do with one song being so fast that if you listen to it, you go back in time."

Read the entire report at this location.

EPICA's previously announced live DVD, which was filmed on May 4, 2006 at Paradiso in Amsterdam, Holland, has been delayed until later this year, according to a posting on the group's official web site. The band's latest album, "Consign to Oblivion", was recorded in early 2005 and features a guest contribution from KAMELOT vocalist Roy Khan.

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