@@kaNjiXIII It was a unique experience, when do you get to hear a metal band with a full orchestra? There were two concerts in Amsterdam and two more in Mexico in December. You will find enough videos of Epica on UA-cam to make reaction videos and they are not as ‘Disney’ as this one. Unfortunately there are only fan made videos of the Symphonic Synergy concert on UA-cam .
Calling it "too Disney" is actually pretty much the biggest compliment you could give to this song, as it's made to promote a new attraction set to be opened on october 31st in Efteling themepark in The Netherlands.
After reading all the comments, I realised that as well. They nailed the assignment and I did not understand that... :D But in the end I'm super glad I made that mistake, because people here educated me about that, in such a friendly way here. That I 1. want to hear more Epica and 2. maybe will visit the park as well, :)
I hope that you know, or will check out, the ORIGINAL classical piece: Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns, written in 1875(!). This song is a (very well done) reinterpretation of that. Also (I don’t want tot go in too much detail) it is firmly engrained into Dutch culture. It is a collaboration with de Efteling theme park, to celebrate the opening of the attraction ‘Danse Macabre’. The attraction, which uses the same music, replaces an old (45yrs) attraction ‘het Spookslot’, with the same theme. One of the iconic set-pieces was a yellow, floating violin. The old Spookslot was opened with Kate Bush singing. The new attraction opens on October 31st and is a reimagining of the same theme. It is not a coaster, nor a conventional dark ride. It is totally unique. The attraction is story-, music- and dance-based. Very European.You LITERALLY Dance with the Dead. All this points back to tales from the Middle Ages, where the stories were built about dancing with the Dead. De Efteling is a THEME park like no other. IMO one of the best (and oldest) in the world. Do they have the ‘fastest’ coasters? The ‘tallest drops’? No, they don’t. De Efteling are not about that. They are STORY TELLERS. A day at De Efteling will put you in a world of old (not Disneyfied!) European folk tales and local myths. You really should view some videos from vloggers who went there and see how visitors are often delighted to learn of the fairy tales of old, but not in the Disney way, but in their original, and often darker, form…
First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed comment. One of my favourite parts of doing this, is learning more and more, from everyone who's sharing their wisdom.
Epica is alot heavier then this more musical theater song. They are havier. Consign to oblivion live at the Zenith will sow you their more death metal side.
Thanks you for the recommendation, I think that song, in this particular version got mentioned the most, so I will make the next Epica video with this song. Also the fact that it's live makes it even mor intriguing.
This is to promote an attraction in an amusement park in the Netherlands ( efteling) called Danse Macabre (Dance of Death). Efteling likes to tell a story with their attractions her yellow and blue eyes are a reference to the kitten on( 1:20) it is a dark and sinister shadow who hides in the abbey
it's made in the style of Disney just because it's a collaboration of Epica with a large theme fairytale park De Efteling, the second most visited in Europe in honor of the opening of their new attraction, the decorations of which you can see in the video. regarding the music, Epica usually have a slightly different sound, heavier, their music has a lot of harsh vocals, which works very cool in contrast with a beautiful female voice and a lot of death metal influence, and also a little black metal. In short, their music has influences from almost all metal subgenres, but at the same time everything is united by the symphonic component. This is a very interesting band and the best in its genre at the moment, because few can boast such diversity within one genre and such awesome live shows, I advise you to watch something from their live performances for sure, for example this: Epica - Consign to oblivion (live at the zenith), it would be epic and heavy 😈
Yes, as soon as I read that it was made for that, I felt a bit stupid for saying that, but that's how we learn, right? xD Thank you so much for explaining that, I always say, no matter which genre you like, you can find some band in metal who do that, but with metal, so it's usually better... xD You made me even more curious now for more Epica. And thank you for recommending this, especially when it's a good live version.
@ it's okay, I got the same vibes from this song and video 😁 This isn't the first time Epica has made "Disney" metal, they have a few more similar songs in their discography
@@kaNjiXIII there is no live in good quality for the song "ascension", unfortunately (( I only recommend the lyric video for this song, but it has footage from the concert. But if you still want to see an epic live show, then this is primarily for the song "consign to oblivion" live at the zenith 👌
@kaNjiXIII yeah, I kind of knew something like that was happening. They nailed it but that ruined the chance of a really epic song because of the topic😅😅
Now imagine hearing it live with a full orchestra and choirs, I was there myself at the end of September when Epica performed it.
That must have been an epic(a) show.
@@kaNjiXIII It was a unique experience, when do you get to hear a metal band with a full orchestra? There were two concerts in Amsterdam and two more in Mexico in December. You will find enough videos of Epica on UA-cam to make reaction videos and they are not as ‘Disney’ as this one. Unfortunately there are only fan made videos of the Symphonic Synergy concert on UA-cam .
Calling it "too Disney" is actually pretty much the biggest compliment you could give to this song, as it's made to promote a new attraction set to be opened on october 31st in Efteling themepark in The Netherlands.
After reading all the comments, I realised that as well. They nailed the assignment and I did not understand that... :D
But in the end I'm super glad I made that mistake, because people here educated me about that, in such a friendly way here. That I 1. want to hear more Epica and 2. maybe will visit the park as well, :)
I hope that you know, or will check out, the ORIGINAL classical piece: Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns, written in 1875(!). This song is a (very well done) reinterpretation of that.
Also (I don’t want tot go in too much detail) it is firmly engrained into Dutch culture. It is a collaboration with de Efteling theme park, to celebrate the opening of the attraction ‘Danse Macabre’. The attraction, which uses the same music, replaces an old (45yrs) attraction ‘het Spookslot’, with the same theme. One of the iconic set-pieces was a yellow, floating violin. The old Spookslot was opened with Kate Bush singing. The new attraction opens on October 31st and is a reimagining of the same theme. It is not a coaster, nor a conventional dark ride. It is totally unique. The attraction is story-, music- and dance-based. Very European.You LITERALLY Dance with the Dead.
All this points back to tales from the Middle Ages, where the stories were built about dancing with the Dead.
De Efteling is a THEME park like no other. IMO one of the best (and oldest) in the world. Do they have the ‘fastest’ coasters? The ‘tallest drops’? No, they don’t. De Efteling are not about that. They are STORY TELLERS. A day at De Efteling will put you in a world of old (not Disneyfied!) European folk tales and local myths. You really should view some videos from vloggers who went there and see how visitors are often delighted to learn of the fairy tales of old, but not in the Disney way, but in their original, and often darker, form…
First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed comment. One of my favourite parts of doing this, is learning more and more, from everyone who's sharing their wisdom.
Epica is alot heavier then this more musical theater song. They are havier. Consign to oblivion live at the Zenith will sow you their more death metal side.
Thanks you for the recommendation, I think that song, in this particular version got mentioned the most, so I will make the next Epica video with this song. Also the fact that it's live makes it even mor intriguing.
trust me, listen to "The Obsessive Devotion (Omega Alive)", "Martyr of the Free Word" and "The Miner"
I will listen to more Epica now, comments really got me hungry :D
This is to promote an attraction in an amusement park in the Netherlands ( efteling) called Danse Macabre (Dance of Death). Efteling likes to tell a story with their attractions
her yellow and blue eyes are a reference to the kitten on( 1:20) it is a dark and sinister shadow who hides in the abbey
Park efteling ? what does this mean?
@@nikosnikos8184 Its the name of the amusement park.
Thank you so much for the context, everything makes a lot more sense knowing this and I will check out some of their other songs I got recommended.
it's made in the style of Disney just because it's a collaboration of Epica with a large theme fairytale park De Efteling, the second most visited in Europe in honor of the opening of their new attraction, the decorations of which you can see in the video.
regarding the music, Epica usually have a slightly different sound, heavier, their music has a lot of harsh vocals, which works very cool in contrast with a beautiful female voice and a lot of death metal influence, and also a little black metal. In short, their music has influences from almost all metal subgenres, but at the same time everything is united by the symphonic component. This is a very interesting band and the best in its genre at the moment, because few can boast such diversity within one genre and such awesome live shows, I advise you to watch something from their live performances for sure, for example this:
Epica - Consign to oblivion (live at the zenith), it would be epic and heavy 😈
Yes, as soon as I read that it was made for that, I felt a bit stupid for saying that, but that's how we learn, right? xD
Thank you so much for explaining that, I always say, no matter which genre you like, you can find some band in metal who do that, but with metal, so it's usually better... xD
You made me even more curious now for more Epica.
And thank you for recommending this, especially when it's a good live version.
@ it's okay, I got the same vibes from this song and video 😁 This isn't the first time Epica has made "Disney" metal, they have a few more similar songs in their discography
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Try Ascencion-Dream state armageddon official lyric video or The essence of Silence official live video.
Enjoy 😊
Great suggestions! Probably what he asked for 🤘😁.
Ascension dream state Armageddon - This is their best song. Absolutely love this. She blows my mind every time
Absolutely what I asked for, thank you so much. :) I will definitely do a few more Epica songs, would you recommend 'live videos' over regular ones?
@@kaNjiXIIIEpica live is almost always better, but the lyric videos that have "aftermovie" in the title are certainly worth watching.
@@kaNjiXIII there is no live in good quality for the song "ascension", unfortunately (( I only recommend the lyric video for this song, but it has footage from the concert.
But if you still want to see an epic live show, then this is primarily for the song "consign to oblivion" live at the zenith 👌
I felt it too "happy" too
As I learned through the comments, apparently it was to promote a theme park. So I think they nailed the assignment. :)
@kaNjiXIII yeah, I kind of knew something like that was happening. They nailed it but that ruined the chance of a really epic song because of the topic😅😅
@@noahreaver8375 It's still an epic song imo haha
@@Percy92 no doubt, I'm comparing Epica with Epica 😅
Totally the epica is a bigest band in europe ?
Is it componist Camille Saint-Saëns..
Wat en sukel fffffff
Waarom?
@@mariodriessen9740 Good question. :) although I had to google translate what he said. :)
@@kaNjiXIII Should be sukkel with two k's though. xD
@@yvonnecampbell7036 Can a guy not even get insulted the right way on the internet anymore??? xD
@@kaNjiXIII right xD