Artist: EPICA
Album: ASPIRAL LTD. EDIT. (CD+BRD DIGI)

Release date: 11.04.2025
EAN/UPS: 4065629733100
Media type: CD

Symphonic metal titans EPICA are excited to announce that their 9th studio album Aspiral will be out on April 11th, via Nuclear Blast Records. The album title is derived from the eponymous bronze sculpture made by Polish sculptor and painter Stanisław Szukalski back in 1965 and stands for renewal and inspiration – keywords that define EPICA in 2025. In Szukalski’s work every detail is a piece of art in its own right, and there’s always more to the story than you initially think. The band saw this as the perfect analogy for the creation of this 9th album: each song stands on its own with a distinctive vibe and meaning, while together they enforce each other into a monumental effort.
 
The album, featuring stunning cover artwork by Hedi Xandt (Rammstein, Ghost, Parkway Drive), is now available for pre-order in the below mentioned formats. The special editions even include the BluRay and audio recordings of the full monumental “Symphonic Synergy” performance in Amsterdam that the band recorded in 2024 with an orchestra and choir.

Recorded once again at Sandlane Studios and expertly mixed and produced by Joost van den Broek.

CD/ 2LP:
 
1. Cross the Divide
2. Arcana
3. Darkness Dies in Light - A New Age Dawns Part VII -
4. Obsidian Heart
5. Fight to Survive - The Overview Effect -
6. Metanoia - A New Age Dawns Part VIII -

7. T.I.M.E.
8. Apparition
9. Eye of the Storm
10. The Grand Saga of Existence - A New Age Dawns Part IX -
11. Aspiral


BRD:
    1. Welcome To the Symphonic Synergy (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    2. Unleashed (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    3. The Essence of Silence (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    4. Menace of Vanity (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    5. Sensorium (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    6. The Fifth Guardian (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    7. Crimson Bow & Arrow (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    8. Arcana (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    9. The Skeleton Key (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    10. The Ghost In Me - Danse Macabre - (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    11. Storm the Sorrow (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    12. Symphonic Synergy Medley (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    13. Tides of Time (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    14. Sirens - of Blood and Water - (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    15. Unchain Utopia (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    16. Beyond the Matrix (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    17. Code of Life (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    18. Cry For the Moon (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    19. Aspiral (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)
    20. Consign To Oblivion (Live At the Symphonic Synergy)