The Score (An Epic Jouney) - How do you rate it?

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Well,The Score...I think I'm the only one who doesn't consider it an album at all,nope? .Anyway I voted 4/5.This album shows a totally different side of Mark,this time as a classical composer.The songs are really beautiful and orchestral complicated but there is a lack of something.....Yes I know!!!There are missing the vocals(they appear just in Trois Vierges-solo version,Solitary Ground single version,and Quietus score version)the bass,the guiatr and the drums.I mean of course it's sounds beautiful without them,but I don't consider it an "Epica" album at all.I hope you know what I mean.There's only Mark as the composer,the orchestra paying and Simone interpreting in a few songs...As for favorites it's really hard to say since I always have to look up for the title as the songs are somehow "glued" to each other.But I really love "Caught In A Web","Mystica" ."Valley Of Sins"and "Insomnia" the most!And the artwork cover is beautiful!But it's still the album that I listen less...

4/5 its cool I agree that it does shows Marks other side its good but still not really an Epica album Epica is all about the metal and it doesn't really bring that out in a way but overall it is pretty good

I really love it, and as you girls already said, I love this side of Mark's musicial talent that he showed on The Score. But I also don't consider it as an Epica album, and still need to discover something more in it anyway. So 4/5 from me as well.

As an album, it is very epic and majestic...yet I have a difficult time thinking of it as an Epica album. It lacks so many of the characteristics that I have come to associate with my favorite band. Of course, there is added depth and complexity at the same time. I still find it lovely. It is hard for me to find fault with it...though, as a vocalist, I prefer releases with more actual singing.

Jenna (Pale Secrecy)

3/5
I find it funny that it's talked as official studio release, i dont see it like that .
It's wonderful cd anyway, but just not Epica, it is still majestic and beautiful.
Mark is the greatest composer ever, this is one of the proofs for that fact.