EPICA To Record Song With Prestigious METROPOLE ORKEST

August 4, 2017

After an intense six-month voting campaign, Dutch symphonic metal titans EPICA have announced that they've won the contest of Holland's famous and most prestigious Metropole Orkest! Over 650 artists of all possible music genres competed — among them popular Dutch acts like WITHIN TEMPTATION, Caro Emerald and Kensington — yet it was none other than EPICA who pulled the longest straw!

After working with world's top artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Bono and Dizzy Gillespie, the Metropole Orkest is being considered the biggest professional pop and jazz orchestra in the world. Now remarkably, it's up to EPICA to show what they're made of and who will have the privilege to record an EPICA track together with this amazing orchestra.

By winning the Metropole Orkest contest, EPICA has proven once again that they can righteously claim their place among Holland's top music acts!

EPICA will release an EP with six brand-new numbers which were created during the creative phase of the band's latest album, 2016's "The Holographic Principle".

"The Solace System" EP will be made available on September 1 via Nuclear Blast. The effort was recorded, mixed and mastered by Joost van den Broek and Jacob Hansen.

Fans will also be able to purchase "The Solace System" together with "The Holographic Principle" as a box set. It will be called "The Holographic Principle - The Ultimate Edition".

In other news, Nuclear Blast will re-release two ancient albums of EPICA, "Design Your Universe" and "The Divine Conspiracy", on vinyl on August 18. Each album is available in two different colors.

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