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EPICA Adds Worcester Show (Apr. 14, 2010)

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Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA have added a Worcester show to what is shaping up to be a full North American tour in the fall.

Confirmed dates so far:

Nov. 19 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
Nov. 20 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Nov. 21 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda

As with the New York and Montreal shows, EPICA will have special VIP meet-and-greet tickets available for the Worcester concert. The VIP ticket allows the fan 60-minutes-early entry to the show (one hour before normal door time) and a special meet-and-greet autograph session with the band.

General admission and VIP tickets to the Worcester show go on sale today exclusively through EnterTheVault.com. (Tickets for the New York and Montreal concerts are already on sale.)

Support acts for these concerts have not yet been announced.

As previously reported, EPICA's April 10 concert at Via Funchal in Sao Paulo, Brazil was filmed for a forthcoming DVD.

The band's South American tour kicked off on April 7 in Porto Alegre, Brazil and took EPICA to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Uruguay.

Goetia Metal has uploaded video footage (see below) of EPICA's March 27, 2010 concert in Madrid, Spain. Also available is a full concert review with exclusive pictures.

On March 9, EPICA singer Simone Simons was in Hilversum, The Netherlands filming a video for the song "This Is The Time", which was written for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

EPICA celebrated the five-year anniversary of its sophomore album, "Consign To Oblivion", by performing the CD in its entirety on March 21 at Effenaar in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Keyboardist Coen Janssen was forced to sit out EPICA's recent North American headlining tour because of "personal reasons." He was replaced by Simone's boyfriend Oliver Palotai (KAMELOT, SONS OF SEASONS, DORO).

EPICA's latest album, "Design Your Universe", landed at position No. 12 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

Thought this might be the right place to state that Mark will do a guest appearance at the ReVamp show in Fenix (Sittard, NL, 18.06.2010)!! (source: ReVamp Twitter)

Wow,that's awesome.Maybe he will do the grunts in 'In Sickness 'Till Death Do Us Part:Disdain'.I hope so...because I didnt really like the grubts/screams/whatever on the CD Or maybe he will also do the grunts on 'Here's My Hell'

We can expect Epica to play at FMVF again!
http://www.myspace.com/mcsharq/photos/43487046

What do they mean by 'The Phantom Agony' Show? Maybe Epica will play it on its entirely again

No idea, but seems like it will be a special gig again.

Sounds sweet I love special gigs because...they're special

The next US tour is going to be more epic!

Mark says (official forum)

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We invest a lot in a better production this time. Last time some venues didn't provide us with a lightengineer and we couldn't afford to bring one ourself. This time we bring our own guy and some extra lightspecials. A good lightshow is very important for the overall Epica experience

Damn you amaricans You always get the best stuff

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Damn you amaricans You always get the best stuff

Yes,it's not fair!!

Some news Mark said on the official forum are quite interesting

New album:

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2011 will surely not be a break for Epica
We'll play as much as possible, especially summers fests and right after the summer we have planns to record the new album!

Still a long way to the new album then.

About MaYaN:

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Incentive was indeed a sign for me to go on making music in this direction.
As we hardly ever play this song live with Epica, we're thinking about adding it to the MaYaN setlist.

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Arien will surely do some grunts as well (even jack will do some, he seems to have a great dimmu borgir sound in his voice, nice for 1 certain chorus we have haha).

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Whenever there's a gap in Epica activities MaYaN will jump into it

And hmm, from Dutch part:
"According to Festival Info Mayan plays on 26 May in the small hall of the Effenaar with SOS"

If I'm correct they will have the new album out next autumn

It's nice that MaYan will have Incentive on the setlist and Arien and Jack will do grunts.The more,the better

Not official news, but seems Epica is going to South America again after the 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise in January/February.

Good news for the teo american continents They get Epica almost twoce as much than europenas outside The Netherlands

Don't get my complaint too serious.South American crowds are the best after all

https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=129560503759665&ref=mf Joiiiiiin

DONE!

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New Shutterblast collab with Mark and Isaac
http://www.shutterblast.net/

I simply love Audrey's photos,and I cant wait to see those new Ibanez promos!

ShutterBLAST collaboration with EPICA bassist YVES HUTS
http://www.shutterblast.net/

That's really cool.I love how he describes Audrey's pictures!

Audrey <3 She is sooo sweet

You can follow US tour dairy by Willem on here: http://www.willemvanroekel.nl/

it's interesting I'm happy that he has a blog