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Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

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Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015)
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 910 Mb
Scans Included (JPG, 300 dpi) | RAR 5% Recovery
Symphonic Rock, Symphonic Metal | Transmission Records #TMD-072

Consign to Oblivion is the second studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, and was released in 2005. The song "Trois Vierges" features a guest appearance by then Kamelot vocalist Roy Khan. The album's lyrics are heavily influenced by Mayan civilization. This CD started a new collection of songs, called "A New Age Dawns". This saga is continued on the album Design Your Universe. Stylistically, the album is more focused towards orchestration than other Epica releases and features heavy use of a chorus.
~ Wiki


For all its ambitious plotting, baroque soundscapes, and unquestionable technical merits, Epica's first album was distinctly lacking in the most crucial of categories: songwriting. In fact, it pretty much proved the point that musical education doesn't necessarily guarantee musical inspiration, ultimately achieving surprisingly little purchase in one's memory banks for an album so rife with Strum und Drang. In retrospect, it may also have been somewhat rushed in its construction, what with guitarist and creative leader Mark Jansen possibly being a little too anxious to prove his own mettle after quitting After Forever – the band founded with his sister Floor, and who in fact helped pioneer the symphonic/progressive/power metal style still on dominant display here. Longer preparation has certainly had a positive effect on the sophomore effort, but, if anything, Epica remain more committed to that original vision than the increasingly modern-sounding (though no less progressive) After Forever, insisting on employing human choirs and orchestras throughout Consign to Oblivion, and rarely letting mezzo-soprano Simone Simons stray from an operatically correct delivery. Jansen's death growls have also taken a noticeable back seat this time around, but that's not to say that typical offerings such as "Dance of Fate," "Blank Infinity," and "Force of the Shore" fail to provide plenty of heavy staccato guitar riffing and hyperactive double kick drums. Single candidate "Solitary Ground," on the other hand, finds an adequate middle ground between rocker and ballad; "Quietus" pretty much waltzes away from start to finish; and the symphonic overkill is finally toned down for the surprisingly pop-campy, harpsichord-led ballad "Trois Vierges" (big-time Nightwish influence), on which Simons is joined by Kamelot vocalist Roy Kahn. And don't forget the four different movements of a fatalistic suite subtitled "A New Age Dawns" (partly sung in Latin, and decrying man's folly with nature – you know the drill), which are strewn about the album in somewhat arbitrary fashion, and may only confuse things further. Nevertheless, Consign to Oblivion's overall presentation is as immaculate as its predecessor's, and definitely an improvement from a compositional perspective, promising better things to come in Epica's future.
~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music
Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]


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Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

Track List CD1:

01. Hunab K'u - A New Age Dawns ~ Prologue [01:44]
02. Dance of Fate [05:14]
03. The Last Crusade - A New Age Dawns # 1 [04:23]
04. Solitary Ground [04:24]
05. Blank Infinity [04:02]
06. Force of the Shore [04:03]
07. Quietus [03:48]
08. Mother of Light - A New Age Dawns # 2 [05:57]
09. Trois Vierges [04:43]
10. Another Me (In Lack' Ech) [04:41]
11. Consign to Oblivion - A New Age Dawns # 3 Bonus Tracks [09:48]
12. Palladium [02:57]
13. Solitary Ground - remix [03:11]
14. Crystal Mountain [04:49]

Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 28. January 2016, 22:20

Epica / Consign To Oblivion CD1 (TMD-072)

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Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

Track List CD2:

01. Dance of Fate - orchestral version [05:19]
02. The Last Crusade - orchestral version [04:23]
03. Solitary Ground - orchestral version [04:25]
04. Blank Infinity - orchestral version [04:05]
05. Force of the Shore - orchestral version [04:06]
06. Quietus - orchestral version [03:53]
07. Mother of Light - orchestral version [05:59]
08. Trois Vierges - orchestral version [04:44]
09. Another Me (In Lack' Ech) - orchestral version [04:42]
10. Consign to Oblivion - orchestral version [09:50]
11. Solitary Ground - single version [04:09]
12. Linger - piano version [04:21]
13. Quietus (Silent Reverie) - single version [03:57]

Exact Audio Copy V1.1 from 23. June 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 28. January 2016, 22:39

Epica / Consign To Oblivion CD2 (TMD-072)

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Epica - Consign To Oblivion (2015) [Reissue, Remastered, Special Expanded Edition]

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