EPICA SET TO RELEASE ‘ΩMEGA ALIVE’ + ANNOUNCES PREMIERE OF “UNCHAIN UTOPIA”
In June this year, we unleashed a monument to our music and our career – our worldwide streaming event, ΩMEGA ALIVE. It was the show of your wildest dreams, brought to life by 40 artists – what some people described as “Marvel meeting Cirque de Soleil in a Tim Burton universe!”
Tailor-made videos, graphic effects, spectacular pyro effects, rain, dancers, choirs and actors all added to the aura of symbolism and cinematic splendor that brought fans from over 100 countries flocking to their screens to witness a show that became the biggest concert event of our history.
Coen Janssen, the mastermind behind the the show’s concept, explains:
“What we wanted to do was the ultimate EPICA show where we could fulfill every dream we ever had, where there was room for all the ideas, effects and props that are just too big to be taken on tour. Far from your usual streaming concert, the band developed a trademark feature called a living backdrop. We built another stage right behind our stage where lots of things were going on the whole time. And we meant that very literally. Every song got something extra, something unique that was fitting its world.”
ΩMEGA ALIVE releases December 3, 2021 and will be available in the following formats:
BluRay + DVD
2CD Digipak
Boxset incl. CD-version of the Earbook, 5x 10'' Picture Vinyl (Zoetrope vinyl)
Earbook incl. DVD + BluRay + 3LP (Light Green Vinyl)
Earbook incl. DVD + BluRay + 2CD
3LP (Black Vinyl)
3LP (Glow in the Dark, Band Store Exclusive)
3LP Clear + White Marbled in Trifold (EMP Exclusive)
3LP White with Sun Yellow + Black in Trifold (Netherlands + Belgium Exclusive)
3LP Sun Yellow in Trifold (NB Mailorder + Wholesale Exclusive)
3LP Clear + Green + Black Splatter (NB Mailorder Exclusive)
2CD/BluRay (USA Exclusive)
2CD/DVD (Mexico + Brazil Exclusive)
Directed by Jens de Vos (Panda Productions) and graced with the magical artwork of Stefan Heilemann (Heilemania), the DVD, BluRay, CD and vinyl contain 15 EPICA classics, fan-favourites, as well as first-ever live performances from tracks off the band’s latest chef-d’oeuvre, ΩMEGA, such as “The Skeleton Key” or the insanely monumental, “Kingdom of Heaven Part 3.”
Just got this email. I'm very happy they are releasing this; it was a really great show and impressive production and I'll be glad to own it. It's wild to me how many versions of these things get released nowadays—I don't really see the point in getting both the Blu-Ray and the DVD, so I think I'll be looking for that 2CD/Blu-Ray set.
As a reminder, here's the tracklist. A ton of recent stuff that hasn't gotten a live release yet, including In All Conscience, which was just a bonus track on TQE. Also probably the biggest song from the first five albums not to have a live version yet in Kingdom of Heaven. The only songs we're getting repeat versions of are The Obsessive Devotion and Cry for the Moon.
1. Alpha - Anteludium
2. Abyss of Time - Countdown to Singularity
3. The Skeleton Key
4. Unchain Utopia
5. The Obsessive Devotion
6. In All Conscience
7. Victims of Contingency
8. Kingdom of Heaven - A New Age Dawns Part V
9. Kingdom of Heaven, Part III - The Antediluvian Universe
10. Rivers - A Capella
11. Once Upon a Nightmare
12. Freedom - The Wolves Within
13. Cry for the Moon
14. Beyond the Matrix
15. Omega - Sovereign of the Sun Spheres
They're premiering the video of Unchain Utopia later today:
https://youtu.be/c8XdrOhEZl0