![]() Next up ‘The Essence Of Silence’ is the track where they nail it and that phrase Pushing The Envelope crops up again. ‘The Second Stone’ then kicks things off for real, with Rhapsody-esque manic guitars and drums, before Epica carry on where they had left off on the better moments of “Requiem…”! It has all the elements that should be there, with a great time-change chorus – a very good start. They are always excellent and this one is no exception. Their signature intro is always an orchestral multi-layered musical curtain-raiser that just has to set the scene – which it does of course. I was looking forward to seeing if the band had continued the trend I enjoyed last time around or reverted to their earlier blueprint. Epica seem to be all about that combination of all the elements within their sound, blending them together, sometimes perfectly, but sometimes just getting the balance a little off. I felt the band at times really nailed the balance between orchestration, melody and metal with last year’s “Requiem For The Indifferent”, and I totally agree with the review elsewhere on Ave Noctum by Jon Butlin, where he states the album tapers off a little in the middle. ![]() ![]() And you just thought I was quoting random pointless shite didn’t you? First time through it’s an amazing complex blur, second time you can recognize certain bits and that’s your way in, from then on it all starts to make sense. So I Read it again, and applying the ladder theory the rest started to make more sense – I just needed a way in. Eh? Nope, not following you there (wish I hadn’t asked…), but I kind of got the ladder bit. Inside that envelope you will be hit by the ladder outside you won’t. In a two-dimensional example, the set of lines described by the various positions of a ladder sliding down a wall forms an envelope – in this case an arc, gently curving away from the intersection of the wall and floor. I’m with you there Professor, but seeing as I’m asking, what is the phrase’s actual definition? The envelope here isn’t the container for letters, but the mathematical envelope, which is defined as ‘the locus of the ultimate intersections of consecutive curves’. Yep, that’s Epica, that’s what they’ve always been about. ![]() To innovate, or go beyond commonly accepted boundaries. On the surface a strange phrase, but something I often say that Epica do with their Symphonic Metal genre – so I thought I’d better check exactly what it means To attempt to extend the current limits of performance. ![]()
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