Dutch symphonic metal giants EPICA have released Live at The Symphonic Synergy worldwide as a digital album, capturing their sold-out performance at AFAS Live in Amsterdam on September 20, 2024.
The performance marked a major moment in the band’s career, bringing EPICA together with a full orchestra and choir for a production combining their progressive metal foundations with expansive orchestral arrangements.
Alongside the digital release, EPICA have shared a live video for “Consign To Oblivion,” the closing track from the 20-song set.
Live at The Symphonic Synergy Track List
- Welcome to The Symphonic Synergy
- Unleashed
- The Essence of Silence
- Menace of Vanity
- Sensorium
- The Fifth Guardian
- Crimson Bow & Arrow
- Arcana
- The Skeleton Key
- The Ghost in Me – Danse Macabre –
- Storm the Sorrow
- Symphonic Synergy Medley
- Tides of Time
- Sirens – of Blood and Water –
- Unchain Utopia
- Beyond the Matrix
- Code of Life
- Cry for the Moon
- Aspiral
- Consign to Oblivion
The release arrives as EPICA prepare to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2027. The band will bring The Symphonic Synergy production back to the stage for a European tour across September and October 2027, once again performing with a full orchestra and choir.
The run will visit 10 countries, including Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal. The October 6 performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall is already sold out.
Before the European run, EPICA will perform three sold-out shows at Amsterdam’s Royal Theatre Carré in January, followed by a series of Latin American dates in March.
Formed in the Netherlands in 2002, EPICA have spent more than two decades developing their combination of symphonic orchestration, progressive metal, and contrasting vocal styles led by Simone Simons and Mark Jansen.
Live at The Symphonic Synergy is available digitally now.