The holographic principle

" Veterans EPICA`s seventh album The Holographic Principle certainly has enough quality to keep up with the leaders of the scene. While retaining the trademark bombast intrinsic to the symphonic metal scene EPICA remain much more rooted around the riff than their peers with innovative and, more importantly, catchy guitar work peppered all over the album ... There's certainly not a wasted moment but as an overall work The Holographic Principle does remain weighed down by this mammoth runtime".

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"The Holographic Principle is an entertaining exercise in excess, a well-done weekend blockbuster in musical form. It's going to repulse the pretentious, appear as an amazing display of art to dabblers in the genre, and be an accessible yet moderately enjoyable listen to most others. Epica's good at what they do, which is making grandiose and fun soundtracks for lengthy adventure films that don't exist with a competent metal band bolstering the whole affair".

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"Epicas nye album er solidt og velskrevet; det indeholder alle de elementer, som kunne forventes. Her er samtidigt et album, hvor der virkelig er kælet for mixing og mastering, så alle elementer får sin plads i lydbilledet og tilsammen efterlader en lækker omgang symfonisk metal. Der kan argumenteres for, at der ingen fornyelse er på Epicas nye album, og at de dermed fortsætter i samme spor, som de har gjort siden 2003. Denne diskussion virker dog for skizofren at tage med mig selv og gør bestemt ikke kvaliteten af albummet dårligere".

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"Epica er på bandets syvende album mere symfoniske, progressive, ambitiøse og omfangsrige end nogen sinde tidligere. Det hele bliver desværre en smule trættende i løbet af et alt for langt album".

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