{"id":6,"date":"2006-04-09T14:13:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-06-10T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T13:04:16","slug":"epica-concert-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/2006\/04\/09\/epica-concert-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Epica concert review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epica.nl\"> Epica<\/a>. Epica is a dutch symphonic metal band, with lots of influences from the film music industry, which is my other musical preference.  I heard them for the first time on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowlands.nl\">dutch festival<\/a> in 2004. I was quite surprised by this to me unknown metal band. Now I have all their CD&#8217;s and I got their awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000A2WMOA\/qid=1144587232\/sr=8-6\/ref=pd_bbs_6\/002-2667139-7000023?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance&#038;n=130\">2 meter sessies DVD.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To my surprise I found out they were giving a concert in my home town. So of course I went there. Good thing I just bought myself a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/uk\/products\/mobilephones\/mobilephones\/sgh_d600haatmu.asp%22\">mobile phone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.caliburn.nl\/blog\/epica.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I know Epica a bit and I know what they can do musically. It was an awesome concert, but I had the impression they could have done more. The guitars were to me waay too loud, ignoring the Simone&#8217;s awesome voice (darn she is hot). I know the headbangers in front did not mind that. But my sensitive ears would prefer to hear more music instead of guitars. Epica is not a normal metal band. They are a symphonic one, so let me hear more symphonic stuff during concert.<\/p>\n<p>While thanking the audience and going back stage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0002IQIWE\/sr=8-2\/qid=1144588246\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/002-2667139-7000023?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">King Arthur&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;All of them!&#8221; was playing. Awesomeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of Epica. Epica is a dutch symphonic metal band, with lots of influences from the film music industry, which is my other musical preference. I heard them for the first time on a dutch festival in 2004. I was quite surprised by this to me unknown metal band. Now I have all their CD&#8217;s and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/2006\/04\/09\/epica-concert-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caliburn.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}