- VINYL RE-ISSUE FROM DUTCH EPIC METAL SENSATIONS EPICA!!! Epica's second and breakthrough full length album! Exclusively restored dynamic 24 bit remastering from the original master tapes. 2LP high quality 180 gram audiophile pressing (1st pressing solid black vinyl). Deluxe 320 gram carton gatefold sleeve. Lyrics included. "Expanded Edition" contains six bonus tracks [!]
Two years after the monumentally massive splendour of The Phantom Agony (2003), Epica released the majestic successor Consign To Oblivion. On this album, for the greater part inspired by the Mayan culture, the group around mezzo-soprano Simone Simons and guitarist Mark Jansen broke new ground. The music was getting more accessible and the variety of the compositions grew, ranging from unadulterated gothic-metal to ballads. "This album marks Epica's growth into maturity", Mark Jansen stated. "This is the album I always wanted to make. Now we've finally had the opportunity and the capacity to realize a project like this."
On Consign To Oblivion Epica show themselves as an imposing and tightly-knit rock machine with almost Wagnerian power, proving in all aspects why the band is counted as the vanguard of international gothic-metal scene in the category female fronted. A glorious new album by a great, which includes 6 bonus tracks!
CHAPTER A:
1. Hunab K'u - A new Age Dawns - prologue
2. Dance of Fate
3. The Last Crusade - A new Age Dawns # 1
4. Solitary Ground
5. Blank Infinity
CHAPTER B:
1. Force of the Shore
2. Quietus
3. Mother of Light - A new Age Dawns # 2
4. Trois Vierges
CHAPTER C:
1. Another Me 2In Lackech"
2. Consign to Oblivion - A new Age Dawns # 3
3. Palladium
4. Solitary Ground (remix)
CHAPTER D:
1. Quietus (alternative version)
2. Crystal Mountain
3. Linger (orchestral version)
4. Mother of Light (alterntaive version)