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Album Details: Consign To Oblivion

Release Date:10/11/2005
Label:The End Records
UPC:654436305224

Track List: Consign To Oblivion

  1. Hunab K'u
  2. Dance Of Fate
  3. The Last Crusade
  4. Solitary Ground
  5. Blank Infinity
  6. Force Of The Shore
  1. Quietus
  2. Mother Of Light
  3. Trois Vierges
  4. Another Me 'In Lack'ech'
  5. Consign To Oblivion

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  • All Music Guide

    For all its ambitious plotting, baroque soundscapes, and unquestionable technical merits, Epica's first album was distinctly lacking in the most crucial of categories: songwriting. In fact, it pretty much proved the point that musical education doesn't necessarily guarantee musical inspiration, ultimately achieving surprisingly little purchase in one's memory banks for an album so rife with strum and drang. In retrospect, it may also have been somewhat rushed in its construction, what with guitarist and creative leader Mark Jansen possibly being a little too anxious to prove his own mettle after quitting After Forever the band founded with his sister Floor, and who in fact helped pioneer the symphonic/progressive/power metal style still on dominant display here. Longer preparation has certainly had a positive effect on the sophomore effort, but, if anything, Epica remain more committed to that original vision than the increasingly modernsounding (though no less progressive) After Fore...ver, insisting on employing human choirs and orchestras throughout Consign to Oblivion, and rarely letting mezzosoprano Simone Simons stray from an operatically correct delivery. Jansen's deathgrowls have also taken a noticeable backseat this time around, but that's not to say that typical offerings such as "Dance of Fate," "Blank Infinity" and "Force of the Shore" fail to provide plenty of heavy staccato guitar riffing and hyperactive double kickdrums. Single candidate "Solitary Ground," on the other hand, finds an adequate middle ground between rocker and ballad; "Quietus" pretty much waltzes away from start to finish; and the symphonic overkill is finally toned down for the surprisingly popcampy, harpsichordled ballad "Trois Vierges" (bigtime Nightwish influence), on which Simons is joined by Kamelot vocalist Roy Kahn. And don't forget the four different movements of a fatalistic suite subtitled "A New Age Dawns" (partly sung in Latin, and decrying man's folly with nature you know the drill), which are strewn about the album in somewhat arbitrary fashion, and may only confuse things further. Nevertheless, Consign to Oblivion's overall presentation is as immaculate as its predecessor's, and definitely an improvement from a compositional perspective, promising better things to come in Epica's future. - Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Epica

Originally calling themselves Sahara Dust, The Netherlands' Epica formed in early 2003 when After Forever guitarist Mark Jansen decided to break away and start an operatic metal project all his own. After drafting teenaged mezzosoprano Simone Simons, guitarist Ad Sluijter, keyboardist Coen Jansen, bassist Yves Huts and drummer Jeroen Simons, Epica entered Wolfsburg, Ger... Read more