Fan-filmed video footage of Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers
EPICA performing the song
"Cry For The Moon" at this year's
Gods Of Metal festival on June 27, 2009 in Monza, Italy can be viewed below.
Twenty high-quality photos of the show are available at
Musica Metal.
The band's setlist was as follows:
01.
Indigo02.
The Obsessive Devotion03.
Quietus04.
Fools Of Damnation05.
Cry For The Moon06.
Sancta Terra07.
Consign To OblivioEPICA guitarist
Mark Jansen revealed in a recent interview that the band's next studio album will be called
"Design Your Universe". The group entered
Gate Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany on March 2 with producer
Sascha Paeth to begin recording the follow-up to 2007's
"The Divine Conspiracy", tentatively due in September/October via
Nuclear Blast Records.
EPICA singer
Simone Simons previously stated about the band's new material, "It is so exciting! I love the new songs and can't wait to play them live."
EPICA released a double live CD, titled
"The Classical Conspiracy", on May 8 through
Nuclear Blast Records. The album was recorded in Miskolc, Hungary, on June 14 2008 during the
Miskolc International Opera Festival. The band performed a 45-minute set of metal adaptations of classical songs and movie soundtracks, accompanied by the orchestra and choir as well as symphonic versions of its own songs (including a few orchestral songs from singles and
"The Score", which had never been played live before).