{"id":59430,"date":"2017-07-31T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=59430"},"modified":"2017-11-21T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T16:21:59","slug":"news-epica-tour-uk-and-ireland-in-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-epica-tour-uk-and-ireland-in-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"EPICA To Tour UK And Ireland In April 2018 (July 31st, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

EPICA To Tour UK And Ireland In April 2018<\/strong><\/span>
\nJuly 31st, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dutch symphonic metal band Epica will perform headline shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland during April 2018 on a trek dubbed The United Principle Tour. Supporting are Danish one-woman black metal project Myrkur, and Houston, Texas-based progressive metal group Oceans Of Slumber.<\/p>\n

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Guitarist Mark Jansen commented: \u201cWe\u2019re coming back to the UK! Not for just one show like last time. Also, Ireland for the very first time!!! We\u2019re looking very much forward to partying with you guys! See you in April!\u201d<\/p>\n

The dates are as follows:<\/p>\n

Apr. 06 – Nottingham, England, Rock City (tickets<\/a>)
\nApr. 07 – Glasgow, Scotland, ABC1 (tickets<\/a>)
\nApr. 08 – Bristol, England, O2 Academy (tickets<\/a>)
\nApr. 10 – Dublin, Ireland, Tivoli (tickets<\/a>)
\nApr. 12 – Manchester, England, O2 Ritz (tickets<\/a>)
\nApr. 13 – London, England, O2 Forum (tickets<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Epica\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n

Simone Simons (vocals)
\nMark Jansen (vocals and rhythm guitar)
\nIsaac Delahaye (lead guitar)
\nRob van der Loo (bass)
\nAri\u00ebn van Weesenbeek (vocals and drums)
\nCoen Janssen (keyboards)<\/p>\n

Seventh studio record The Holographic Principle<\/em> was released<\/a> in September 2016 via Nuclear Blast Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EPICA To Tour UK And Ireland In April 2018 July 31st, 2017 Dutch symphonic metal band Epica will perform headline shows in the United Kingdom and Ireland during April 2018 on a trek dubbed The United Principle Tour. Supporting are Danish one-woman black metal project Myrkur, and Houston, Texas-based progressive metal group Oceans Of Slumber. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[925,2151,2594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epica-news","category-myrkur-news","category-oceans-of-slumber-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64153,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59430\/revisions\/64153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}