Amanda Somerville figures as background singer on many Epica albums and she also does the talking part in "The Obsessive Devotion" (some people mistake Simone for doing that talking part).
Amanda: The rudiments have always been misinterpreted during history despite the good intentions of many disciples whos faithful believe was strong and unswayed. Most leaders interpret the old words to their advantage in the attempt of gaining leadership and power over those unfortunate enough to fall under their maliciousness and manipulative ways. This misuse of trust will forever stain the pages of history echoing the exploitation and the frailty of decent men carried away by nurtured rancour
Yeah, at first I didn't like his growling, but the more I listened to Epica it has grown on me. It does fit the music quite well, and it contrasts well with Simone's beautiful voice.
Epicamaniac I am!!!! I'm a simple brazilian that love Simone's voice (she is a angel.... I'm sure for this), love Amanda's voice. The group is perfect!
I just love this song to death and I'm a Muslim. Epica isn't a band that which doesn't respect other people's thoughts and choices. They just want to protest who manipulate people by using religion.
@@freedomfighter4630 not brainwashed..we simply believe this earth and everything inside it must have it creators..that creator is what we believe is god
@@farisnaz7423 yes, you have that belief of a "creator" because you are brainwashed, guess what, no one really knows if this universe was ever really created, if you "believe" otherwise you are hallucinating ... No offens
Simone simons es la mejor chica soprano que he oido en toda mi vida. Espero y que por segunda vez vuelvan a visitar a Mexico pero ahoira en Chiapas.. Simone tu voz para mis oidos son de un angel.
The rudiments have always been misinterpreted during history Despite the good intentions of many disciples who's faithful believe was strong and unswayed Most leaders interpret the old words to their Advantage in the attempt of gaining leadership and power Over those unfortunate enough to fall under their maliciousness and manipulative ways This misuse of trust will forever stain the pages of history Echoing the exploitation and the frailty of decent Men carried away by nurtured rancour...
Why all the hatring in the comments against muslims? Spread respect if you wish to be respected, and most importantly, respect other's opinions, in the end our goal here was to be at peace and enjoy the song we're listening to right above us.
Ihnele Then you're in the wrong place to do so. 99.99999% respect humanity, maybe more than you actually do, based on your comment, and the rest maybe don't but as you understood by now, I hope for your sake, they're far far far, very farrrrr away from being the majority.
Amanda has a great voice and stage presence and Simone has great stage presence, a lot of charisma. I never really liked any female metal singers, but now I love Simone. My favorite singers have always been Dio and Halford because they are the best, and are other worldly talent.
Essa banda é demais ñ tem uma que supere ela depois que o Nightwish deixo Symponic Metal pra ir a encontro do power Metal, o After forever acabo é ñ precis dizer mais nada, Epica arraza...
I am muslim lol,,,,thats to say, i am a believer, but I still ADORE Epica. The genre is just fascinating and we all gotta get over the idea of "[h]e that is not with me is against me." Despite my beliefs, I gotta say deep thoughts, and very logical insights,,,, keep the good work up.... love it !!!
Tidak ada paksaan ats kesucin yang telah ada Tidak ada dusta atas Keindahan yang telah tercipta Dan "Ingatlah Tida Ada Paksaaan Tuk menuju Jalan Kebanran Ini Hanyalah Pertukaran dalam Pertahuran yang Fana Dan Yang Abadi Kemulian Takan Ternodai denga Hinaan Iblis Sekalipun Tetaplah Cahaya Diatas Cahaya... MUHAMMAD PERHIASAN dUNIA WAL AKHIRAH. Dari saya Hamba Yang Hina".
Fascinating and intriguing. Their music could be used for an action movie and yet it's such a pleasure to listen to all by itself. You can't really pin it down just what it is but it's so multi-faceted.
Yes!! I just saw them last night with Visions of Atlantis! and Mark Jensen played bass for VoA, so the whole night he was like 3-4 feet away from me \m/ his death metal voice is AWESOME!
Simone Simons, Sharon Adel, Amy Lee, Tarja Truman, the most beautiful vocalists that exist on earth............... Simone Simons,Sharon de Adel,Amy Lee,Tarja Trumen,las vocalistas mas hermosas que existen en la tierra
i would rather the old religion with their original belief in the Nordic gods. there is a sense of honor and and epic ancient feel about them, Jesus and Christianity are children compared to the age of belief in the gods, and i hold the old faith dear to me, and allot of Epica's songs have messages and passages from the old tails. It's unreal!!
"Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and forsake them in beds apart, and beat them." Quran 4:34
What's tha matter with ppl who cannot appreciate a piece of awesome music... This tune is superb.. Thx Epica for your grejjt music. ;) And thx r0drigu3s for puttin it up here at uTube... this record aren't available at Spåttifaj...
In breif, Seif Al Din is Arabic for sword of faith, and was the nickname of a famous and popular Egyptian sultan. when mongol and christian armies invaded he gathered his army before they reached Egypt and defeated them. He continued to repel them from the cities they had captured across the middle east and appointed leaders to them. He was assassinated on his journey home, but is still very highly thought of esp. by Muslim Historians.
Great band. It's so fun to see epica grow, and goes on to do the same style. If you like their music, try listening to: Capricia - Recline in the Fire or Capricia - Something's Wrong Might like it ;-)
Very cool. I liked the sound and the band. Heavy sound mixed with classical singing with opera mixed medium. Simone is very beautiful and still have a voice in tune with the tone clear and beautiful. I would like to know the message that Amanda did. I would like to see translation of the message into Portuguese.
if you live n a muslim country and read the quran, you would know that the verb used in that verse is DARABA which can mean hit but thee first meaning is to forsake, or split, or depart... the same verc is used 58 times in the quran, and only in this verse people like to interpret it as hit but not in the rest of 57 times. i have read the quran in arabic i'm a translator (arabic, hebrew, french, swedish to Finnish)
Nightwish - Harvest brought me here. Because they uhhh have some similarities in keyboard. I imagine Coen Janssen and Tuomas had a talk about this and I am not creating some sort of drama by mentioning this. (specifically 2:12 in Harvest and 3:42 in Seif Al Din)
@AngelusMortisAcerbus his grunts rule. I'm sure I like it not only for the individuals... I like Epica mainly because of the group, for everyone together.. this is what makes it awesome!
I read some of the comments here, declaring that in holy Quran, they found some violent verses. I'm a muslim myself, and wont blame anyone that thinks like that. Holding faith to certain religion always have some risks, and that is one of the risk we have to take. Humanity evolve through wars. Through wars we know the value of peace. Cant say that peace will be kept forever, but being optimistic is needed. We can avoid wars through understanding each other. Different religion, but still same humanity.
@asdp88 In a translation I found of the lyrics into portuguese Seif al din is translated as Sword of Faith. "The Sword of faith, Hasn't got the ghost of a chance to rust, Because it has always been kept in shape, In serving the one Almighty"
@justs0m3guy just like the prophet Mohamed (Islam) said : you have your religions ad we have ours, that a beautiful thing you said man!! a salute you!!
Ella es mezzosoprano de coloratura, pero si, dentro del rango mezzo, es la mejor que he oido y he oido varias. En cuanto a sopranos, me quedo con Tarja Turunen, soprano lirica, y de coloratura con Lori Lewis.
@jajojah It is about how an original divine message is misinterpreted by leaders who use it for their advantage and the innocent fall for the lies because they trust their leaders blindly. Do not follow something blindly, that is the story of this song.
No, this is Amanda Somerville, the chorus leader of Epica, one of the fouder of the Aina project, and the woman that replaced Simone when she was ill some times ago. She's a great friend of the band but not in the 6 "official band" which includes: Simone, Mark, Ad, Yves, Coen and Arien.
I love the moment when one of the backup singers starts talking! She has such a nice voice!!!!
Amanda somerville?
Wowwww 10 years ago ,this is 2010 🤗😃😃💪👍
@@abelayala7406 yes:-) 11 years later
Amanda Somerville figures as background singer on many Epica albums and she also does the talking part in "The Obsessive Devotion" (some people mistake Simone for doing that talking part).
She has goddessssssss every time
Amanda: The rudiments have always been misinterpreted during history
despite the good intentions of many disciples whos faithful believe was strong and unswayed.
Most leaders interpret the old words to their advantage in the attempt of gaining leadership and power over those unfortunate enough to fall under their maliciousness and manipulative ways.
This misuse of trust will forever stain the pages of history
echoing the exploitation and the frailty of decent men carried away by nurtured rancour
Alhamdulilah there are people like you brother. Allah bless you.
Laillahaillahmuhammad rasul Allah
Ik heb nu een aantal nummers met stijgende verbazing beluisterd, wat een wereldmuziek, geniaal gewoon! Complimenten dames en heren!
simone simmons's face is so beautiful i could stay a entire day watching her 0.o
great music too
Yeah, at first I didn't like his growling, but the more I listened to Epica it has grown on me. It does fit the music quite well, and it contrasts well with Simone's beautiful voice.
Sin palabras . Una obra maestra . Saludos desde Managua,Nicaragua .
Epicamaniac I am!!!!
I'm a simple brazilian that love Simone's voice (she is a angel.... I'm sure for this), love Amanda's voice. The group is perfect!
I just love this song to death and I'm a Muslim. Epica isn't a band that which doesn't respect other people's thoughts and choices. They just want to protest who manipulate people by using religion.
Religious people are brainwashed idiots, that's simply what epica and any logical person with common sense would think =)
@@freedomfighter4630 not brainwashed..we simply believe this earth and everything inside it must have it creators..that creator is what we believe is god
@@farisnaz7423 yes, you have that belief of a "creator" because you are brainwashed, guess what, no one really knows if this universe was ever really created, if you "believe" otherwise you are hallucinating ... No offens
@@freedomfighter4630 beside,epica dont think like you..cuz if u read the lyrics in the last sentence it literally believe in god
@@freedomfighter4630 there is no way this earth just exist by itself and not being created
Simone simons es la mejor chica soprano que he oido en toda mi vida. Espero y que por segunda vez vuelvan a visitar a Mexico pero ahoira en Chiapas.. Simone tu voz para mis oidos son de un angel.
Those 20 people who dislike this song are really out of their mind.. This song is marvelous!!!!
The rudiments have always been misinterpreted during history
Despite the good intentions of many disciples who's faithful believe was strong and unswayed
Most leaders interpret the old words to their
Advantage in the attempt of gaining leadership and power
Over those unfortunate enough to fall under their maliciousness and manipulative ways
This misuse of trust will forever stain the pages of history
Echoing the exploitation and the frailty of decent
Men carried away by nurtured rancour...
Cool song, I was just getting ready to pray my morning prayer and accidentally found this song.
Karl Marx prays?!
Why all the hatring in the comments against muslims? Spread respect if you wish to be respected, and most importantly, respect other's opinions, in the end our goal here was to be at peace and enjoy the song we're listening to right above us.
Ihnele Then you're in the wrong place to do so. 99.99999% respect humanity, maybe more than you actually do, based on your comment, and the rest maybe don't but as you understood by now, I hope for your sake, they're far far far, very farrrrr away from being the majority.
Xero And you believe you respect humanity by denying any rights to people YOU ONLY categorized when they did nothing wrong?
Amanda has a great voice and stage presence and Simone has great stage presence, a lot of charisma. I never really liked any female metal singers, but now I love Simone. My favorite singers have always been Dio and Halford because they are the best, and are other worldly talent.
Essa banda é demais ñ tem uma que supere ela depois que o Nightwish deixo Symponic Metal pra ir a encontro do power Metal, o After forever acabo é ñ precis dizer mais nada, Epica arraza...
simone simons you are mu soul, you are everything,your voice is all, thanks to exist.
I am muslim lol,,,,thats to say, i am a believer, but I still ADORE Epica. The genre is just fascinating and we all gotta get over the idea of "[h]e that is not with me is against me." Despite my beliefs, I gotta say deep thoughts, and very logical insights,,,, keep the good work up....
love it !!!
She's a ANGEL!
Tidak ada paksaan ats kesucin yang telah ada
Tidak ada dusta atas Keindahan yang telah tercipta
Dan "Ingatlah Tida Ada Paksaaan Tuk menuju Jalan Kebanran
Ini Hanyalah Pertukaran dalam Pertahuran yang Fana Dan Yang Abadi
Kemulian Takan Ternodai denga Hinaan Iblis Sekalipun
Tetaplah Cahaya Diatas Cahaya...
MUHAMMAD PERHIASAN dUNIA WAL AKHIRAH.
Dari saya Hamba Yang Hina".
Me recuerda tanto a mis 20 años de edad toda la magia que sentí al verlos en San Luis Potosí , demasiado feeling de estos artistas.
Fascinating and intriguing. Their music could be used for an action movie and yet it's such a pleasure to listen to all by itself. You can't really pin it down just what it is but it's so multi-faceted.
Ona wygląda tak słodko...:) Ma bardzo silny głos. Wielki szacuneczek :) 5*
Yes!! I just saw them last night with Visions of Atlantis! and Mark Jensen played bass for VoA, so the whole night he was like 3-4 feet away from me \m/ his death metal voice is AWESOME!
Simone Simons, Sharon Adel, Amy Lee, Tarja Truman, the most beautiful vocalists that exist on earth...............
Simone Simons,Sharon de Adel,Amy Lee,Tarja Trumen,las vocalistas mas hermosas que existen en la tierra
Cesar Millan1119 Tarja Turunen
It's so great ! And the voice of the man is very good !!
THIS ONE HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVE....
"La ilaheillallah muhammeden rasul allah" epic brutal
لا إله إلا الله ، محمد رسول الله 😊
Epica is the one of the best symphonic metal bands..
I really liked it .. I love you with all my body and soul "Epica".
i realy love this song and saif al dean is a muslem arabic man
im new to this band but it sounds good thumbs up im a nightwish fan so always nice to hear females in metal keep on rockin
this is my favorite part of the song 4:56 :D
The switch over at 1:38 is awesome haha. ^_^
*Favorited*
lailahaillallah muhammad rosulallah
I've never heard this song before... I'm speechless...
no puede ser tan perfecta Simone, cada vez que la escucho pienso lo mismo.
they are both extraordinary! Hale! Simone and Amanda!
beatiful girl!! with beautiful voice
i would rather the old religion with their original belief in the Nordic gods. there is a sense of honor and and epic ancient feel about them, Jesus and Christianity are children compared to the age of belief in the gods, and i hold the old faith dear to me, and allot of Epica's songs have messages and passages from the old tails. It's unreal!!
2021... im still listening )
3:40 sounds like I'm playing Age of Empires, Saladin's Camapaign
I'm seeing them in January 30th!!! I'm sooooo freaking excited I hope they'll play this song FaÇade o Reality and Illusive Consensus!!!
"Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and forsake them in beds apart, and beat them." Quran 4:34
What's tha matter with ppl who cannot appreciate a piece of awesome music... This tune is superb.. Thx Epica for your grejjt music. ;) And thx r0drigu3s for puttin it up here at uTube... this record aren't available at Spåttifaj...
When the beautiful unreality holds out its hand
It’s better not to lose yourself in blind faith
La elaha illa ellah, mohammed rasulu allah
like this song one of the best of epica and simone is so beautiful love her
Es seca !!!! beautiful .
In breif, Seif Al Din is Arabic for sword of faith, and was the nickname of a famous and popular Egyptian sultan. when mongol and christian armies invaded he gathered his army before they reached Egypt and defeated them. He continued to repel them from the cities they had captured across the middle east and appointed leaders to them. He was assassinated on his journey home, but is still very highly thought of esp. by Muslim Historians.
Waa troppo forte Mark con il suo grow!!! lo stimo *.*
that guy got one of the best 'demon' voice I've ever heard :D
NICE LOOKING FORWARD FOR SOME GOOD SYMPHONIC METAL ALBUMS FROM EPICA LIKE THIS ONE KEEP IT UP GUYS....
Great band. It's so fun to see epica grow, and goes on to do the same style. If you like their music, try listening to:
Capricia - Recline in the Fire or
Capricia - Something's Wrong
Might like it ;-)
Voici epica rien que pour vous !❤❤❤❤❤.
Avis aux admirateurs !
gracias por enseñarmemas del heavymetal estos vidoe me hacen aprender un buen de este genero
Very cool. I liked the sound and the band. Heavy sound mixed with classical singing with opera mixed medium. Simone is very beautiful and still have a voice in tune with the tone clear and beautiful. I would like to know the message that Amanda did. I would like to see translation of the message into Portuguese.
great ... I love this voices ..
5.05 la ilahe İllallah,Muhammed Resulallah!!!
I love how they all nod their heads in unison
if you live n a muslim country and read the quran, you would know that the verb used in that verse is DARABA which can mean hit but thee first meaning is to forsake, or split, or depart... the same verc is used 58 times in the quran, and only in this verse people like to interpret it as hit but not in the rest of 57 times. i have read the quran in arabic i'm a translator (arabic, hebrew, french, swedish to Finnish)
it sounds awesome! Epica is the best!
Nightwish - Harvest brought me here. Because they uhhh have some similarities in keyboard. I imagine Coen Janssen and Tuomas had a talk about this and I am not creating some sort of drama by mentioning this. (specifically 2:12 in Harvest and 3:42 in Seif Al Din)
The best song.
I really like the instrumental :)
i dont know why, but the growls of mark are sounding much better here then in cry for the moon
una grosa !!! epica son lo mejor!
@AngelusMortisAcerbus his grunts rule. I'm sure I like it not only for the individuals... I like Epica mainly because of the group, for everyone together.. this is what makes it awesome!
I read some of the comments here, declaring that in holy Quran, they found some violent verses. I'm a muslim myself, and wont blame anyone that thinks like that. Holding faith to certain religion always have some risks, and that is one of the risk we have to take. Humanity evolve through wars. Through wars we know the value of peace. Cant say that peace will be kept forever, but being optimistic is needed. We can avoid wars through understanding each other. Different religion, but still same humanity.
Fair enough. To me the concept of religion is the most absurd thing in the world.
Epic
لا اله الا الله
Marks grunts are awesome!
yeaah yeeaaah!! great!! Nightwish and Epica the best of symphonic metal!!!!!!!!!! (L)
@asdp88 In a translation I found of the lyrics into portuguese Seif al din is translated as Sword of Faith. "The Sword of faith, Hasn't got the ghost of a chance to rust, Because it has always been kept in shape, In serving the one Almighty"
@thehaiatrere it's on wikipedia...i think it's a part of a series of songs talking about the dangers of organized religion
Bnyk yg cover, rata rata false semua pemain musik nya, kecuali yg punya lagu ...😍👍
May 2019 indonesia.
@justs0m3guy just like the prophet Mohamed (Islam) said : you have your religions ad we have ours, that a beautiful thing you said man!! a salute you!!
That Really is EPICa !
Ella es mezzosoprano de coloratura, pero si, dentro del rango mezzo, es la mejor que he oido y he oido varias. En cuanto a sopranos, me quedo con Tarja Turunen, soprano lirica, y de coloratura con Lori Lewis.
@jajojah It is about how an original divine message is misinterpreted by leaders who use it for their advantage and the innocent fall for the lies because they trust their leaders blindly. Do not follow something blindly, that is the story of this song.
When Simone smiles she brings you to another face of the planet. That woman it´s a fucking dream come true
2024 anyone?
@TheLunaticAsylum her name is Amanda Somerville, and she sings really good like Simone (not same) but it's angelical voice...
amo a vocalista ,a musica tbm
wooow fantastic!!
Awesome! (Geweldig! ;))
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@PoTJ600 Amanda is actually Simone's vocal trainer too :)
No, this is Amanda Somerville, the chorus leader of Epica, one of the fouder of the Aina project, and the woman that replaced Simone when she was ill some times ago.
She's a great friend of the band but not in the 6 "official band" which includes: Simone, Mark, Ad, Yves, Coen and Arien.
masterpiece of a song...
dude i love the key player XD
Så jävla bra
@jajojah literally translated it is "sword of the religion" it might be a sword, a person, or an idea. Can't be sure, ask Epica ...
love this so much 8)
2019 ❤️
La ilaha la Allah Muamed Rasulo allah - لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله
1:29 he sound a litle bit like Golum :D
5:11 i just love this scene 😂💖💖
Very good song.