Epica - Offer Free Download To Correct Production Mistake On New Album
Requiem For The Indifferent, the new album from Dutch symphonic metallers Epica has been released on March 9th in Europe and four days later in North America via Nuclear Blast Records but the vocals seem to be missing on the last track of the album, "Serenade Of Self-Destruction". To compensate for this production mistake, the band has now made the song available for free download without the initial technical glitch.
The band issued the following statement about it: "Dear fans, we're very happy that our new album Requiem For The Indifferent is out in the open, as a result of 2.5 years of passionate and hard work."
"However, as you may have noticed "Serenade Of Self-Destruction", the last song on the album, is missing some vocals. Somehow the instrumental version of the song ended up on the master of the full album and this didn't get noticed before the actual release. Everybody involved in making and producing the album has given everything to get the best possible result so we can't blame anyone for this. We know that this is a mistake which wasn't made on purpose. As we don't want to disappoint any of our beloved fans, we are trying everything in our power to solve this issue."
"To get all the songs in their complete form and enjoy the new album fully, Nuclear Blast has released the full version of "Serenade Of Self-Destruction" as a free digital download. You can get the song here. Seen from the bright side, everybody who gets the current CD will have a unique first pressing, which might end up being a collector's item. Should you have any further questions concerning this matter, you can direct them to reklamation@nuclearblast.de. We wish you a great time listening to our album and we hope to see you all on the road!"
The band issued the following statement about it: "Dear fans, we're very happy that our new album Requiem For The Indifferent is out in the open, as a result of 2.5 years of passionate and hard work."
"However, as you may have noticed "Serenade Of Self-Destruction", the last song on the album, is missing some vocals. Somehow the instrumental version of the song ended up on the master of the full album and this didn't get noticed before the actual release. Everybody involved in making and producing the album has given everything to get the best possible result so we can't blame anyone for this. We know that this is a mistake which wasn't made on purpose. As we don't want to disappoint any of our beloved fans, we are trying everything in our power to solve this issue."
"To get all the songs in their complete form and enjoy the new album fully, Nuclear Blast has released the full version of "Serenade Of Self-Destruction" as a free digital download. You can get the song here. Seen from the bright side, everybody who gets the current CD will have a unique first pressing, which might end up being a collector's item. Should you have any further questions concerning this matter, you can direct them to reklamation@nuclearblast.de. We wish you a great time listening to our album and we hope to see you all on the road!"
[Thanks to PocketMetal for the tip!]
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| Risto Wandering Midget Posts: 1113 From: Finland  |
Nuclear Blast is getting quite infamous because of these. Skyforger by Amorphis had a mastering error previously.
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| Edmund Fogg Posts: 1752 From: Canada  |
Dang, I came here thinking I could get a legitimate free copie of Requiem for the Indifferent. You and your teasing headlines.
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| PocketMetal Posts: 750 From: Iran |
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| rpsgc Posts: 42 From: Portugal  |
FYI: It's a 108MB download (as it includes a 700 kbps .wav file together with the .mp3 file). Nuclear Blast needs better servers... I only got around 200 KB/s with my 30Mbps connection, which is pretty pathetic.
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| athena Posts: 101 From: USA  |
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| Carl Berg Carl Berg Posts: 589 From: Luxembourg  |
Quote: That's not just a "technical glitch" 
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| Jiri Posts: 708 From: USA  |
Epica is so smart and cool. They show us how to make a song piece by piece. First they debuted the drums, then added bass, then some guitar, followed by symphonic shit. After this, the song is complete! Oh, wait a second; why do I have the feeling they forgot something critical to their music...
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| knightlightning Posts: 70 From: Spain  |
Written by Jiri on 17.03.2012 at 15:49 LOL
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| WorpeX Made of Metal Posts: 1347 From: USA  |
Written by Risto on 17.03.2012 at 13:16 Really? What is it? I never heard that and I bought the album the day it was released... Also, on topic. I am not complaining about this production error. Free song!!
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| Susan Smeghead Posts: 6941 From: USA  |
Wow. Absolute carelessness.
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| Boxcar Willy yr a kook Posts: 8978 From: Canada  |
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| Milena gloom cookie Posts: 4603 From: Norway  |
Nuclear Blast fail.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| Anastasia Posts: 16 From: Finland  |
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| Risto Wandering Midget Posts: 1113 From: Finland |
Written by WorpeX on 17.03.2012 at 16:09 It was only on the limited edition, that might be the reason why you didn't notice anything. The mellowest section of the title track had a decreased volume level.
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| Dark Blood The Avenger Posts: 1435 From: Portugal  |
Oh Nuclear Blast... 
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| Enissa Posts: 815 From: Greece  |
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| alfrede110 Posts: 17 From: USA  |
This is the natural result of "Trackline-by-trackline" release of songs for promotion. seems NB's had a number of outputs so they have confused what is what! Anyway, now everyone who's got the album, has an "alternate version" too.
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| AngelofDeth Cyborg Raptor Posts: 1183 From: USA  |
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Posts: 21306 From: Canada  |
The way the title of this news article is laid out, you'd think the free download would correct the problem somehow.
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| Milena gloom cookie Posts: 4603 From: Norway |
Oh well, at least the people have got a rare, albeit fucked-up CD out of this.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| corrupt With a lowercase c Posts: 3121 From: Germany  |
Written by Milena on 18.03.2012 at 09:06 That's what I thought. They'll probably release a new version with the mistake corrected. And all the poor first-day buyers will soon hold a little gem of symphonic metal history in their hands
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| Milena gloom cookie Posts: 4603 From: Norway |
Written by corrupt on 18.03.2012 at 09:42 Kind of ironic how we value those fucked up CDs, but, honestly, I'd like to have a CD like that too.
---- 7.0 means the album is good
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| SymphAlchemist Posts: 108  |
Haha, I hated the song, I thought it was kind of a weird instrumental-with-only-choir track. I'll download it, maybe I like the full song. Written by Milena on 18.03.2012 at 10:08 People, they just said it so that the first buyers got less upset with the mistake. =.=
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| Chaosweaver Posts: 29 From: Australia  |
Written by athena on 17.03.2012 at 15:40 My thoughts exactly. NB brought this on themselves.
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| Costa Posts: 34 From: Portugal |
Well! Looking to the name of the track I ask myself: Was this a "Serenade Of Self-Destruction" for someone? 
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3349 From: Australia  |
Written by Milena on 18.03.2012 at 10:08 Its the rarity that makes them valuable. I'm waiting for my order to arrive from amazon so I know whether I need to download this or not.
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| Shaytaan666 Posts: 38 From: Canada |
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| Unhealer Eclecticist Posts: 2311 From: Argentina  |
Written by Shaytaan666 on 26.03.2012 at 22:42 Why would it be? It wasn't even the same song. And 90% of bands record albums like that.
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