Mark Jansen: Epica new album details

Isaac: Well, let me just explain how we work. First we work on songs individually where you just write stuff at home and whenever you feel comfortable with what you already have, you put it on the table and then everybody can take that song and wok on it, so the first process of doing something individually… for me personally, I started writing right after "Design Your Universe". You go on the road and you fiddle around, and whenever I'm at home, I record my ideas and basically, it's not like half songs or anything, it's just riffs, and then whenever we're thinking of making a new album, I just go through all that and you make riffs here and there fit with each other and make songs like that. Mark [Jansen, guitar/vocals], who's the main composer in the band, apart from the intro, he wrote eight songs. We're basically three bandmembers writing the songs, Mark did the majority and then Coen [Janssen, keyboards] did two other songs and then I also wrote two songs. After you have the basic stuff, you give it to the other guys. For instance, between Mark and me, we are both guitar players and I really write music from a guitarist's point of view, so I write the technical riffs and the melody and the solo, whereas Mark will start with the orchestra. Just have some basic guitars and then put more emphasis on the orchestration and then he gives his song to me and says, "OK, that's your job. Make the guitar more interesting!" So that's how we work, and that basically started around June last year. We started sending stuff to each other and during the summer festival season it was mainly weekend shows, so we were just flying out to wherever we were playing and during the week was when you really had time to work. By the end of summer or by the end of August, we were finished with the pre-production and in September we started recording and the whole thing was finished halfway into December. Basically we have everything and then we go into the studio and do it for real. more Metal Shrine interview
Lyric video for "Storm The Sorrow", the first single off Epica's fifth studio album "Requiem for the Indifferent", out March 9 in Europe and March 13, 2012 in North America.
Get the single "Storm The Sorrow" from iTunes athttp://bit.ly/stormsorrowsingle
Get "Requiem From The Indifferent" At:
Nuclear Blast USA: http://bit.ly/rftinbusaNuclear Blast EUROPE: http://bit.ly/rftinbeuiTunes: http://bit.ly/rftiitAmazon: http://amzn.to/rftiamz

Epica - "Storm The Sorrow" Lyric Video

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