{"id":2032,"date":"2012-08-30T04:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/30\/epica-11-songs-written-for-next-album\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T04:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T04:54:22","slug":"epica-11-songs-written-for-next-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/08\/30\/epica-11-songs-written-for-next-album\/","title":{"rendered":"EPICA: 11 Songs Written For Next Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/98\/Epica_Hellfest_2007_22.jpg\/250px-Epica_Hellfest_2007_22.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"158\" height=\"119\" \/><br \/>Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA have already written &#8220;about 11 new tracks&#8221; for their sixth studio album, which the band plans to record sometime in 2013. The group says on its Facebook page, &#8220;This material sounds killer so far.&#8221;  <!--more-->  <br \/>EPICA&#8217;s fifth full-length album, &#8220;Requiem For The Indifferent&#8221;, sold 4,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 104 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band&#8217;s previous CD, &#8220;Design Your Universe&#8221;, opened with 2,100 units to land at position No. 12 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Requiem For The Indifferent&#8221; was released on March 9 in Europe and four days later in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Gate Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany under the watchful eye of Sascha Paeth.<\/p>\n<p>EPICA will embark on an extensive North American tour this fall. Support on the trek will come from ALESTORM, INSOMNIUM, SYSTEM DIVIDE, DESTINY POTATO.<\/p>\n<p>Bassist Rob van der Loo (MAYAN, DELAIN) recently joined EPICA as the replacement for Yves Huts. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA have already written &#8220;about 11 new tracks&#8221; for their sixth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}