This time EPICA once again raises the bar with their fifth album called 'Requiem of the Indifferent’. Full of trademark hymns, significant lyrics, powerful guitar riffing alternated with cinematic interludes and Simone Simons’ angelic voice, it is a very logical step after ‘Design Your Universe’. Again it is an album which has to grow on the listener, so make sure to give it a couple of spins to get the whole picture.
As with every album, EPICA mixes the hard, technical and fast with the intimate and slow, with as good as everything in between. However, this time around it are the huge contrasts which make ‘Requiem for the Indifferent’ stick out. The album will take you on a journey through brutal metal, sweet melodies, technical instrumental passages, theatrical moods, epic orchestration, varying vocal ranges, catchy tunes followed by complex songwriting, etc. More than ever the band connects all these extremes flawlessly, making this a more dynamic, more versatile, more detailed, more style crossing EPICA than before.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Karma
2. Monopoly On Truth
3. Storm The Sorrow
4. Delirium
5. Internal Warfare
6. Requiem For The Indifferent
7. Anima
8. Guilty Demeanor
9. Deep Water Horizon
10 Stay The Course
11. Deter The Tyrant
12. Avalanche
13. Serenade Of Self-Destruction