	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Indigo	2:04	22,023
2	The Obsessive Devotaion	7:11	1,485
3	Menace of Vanity	4:12	32,893
4	Chasing the Dragon	7:38	37,772
5	Never Enough	4:46	46,357
6	La'fetach Chatat Rovetz - The Last Embrace	1:46	1,914
7	Death of a Dream - the Embrace That Smothers Part 7	6:02	1,984
8	Fools of Damnation - the Embrace That Smothers Part 9	4:55	1,968
9	Living a Lie - the Embrace That Smothers Part 8	8:40	1,772
10	Beyond Belief	5:23	29,477
11	Safeguard to Paradise	3:46	28,376
12	Sancta Terra	4:56	29,767
13	The Divine Conspiracy	13:53	25,803

About this album

Artist: Epica

Label: Nuclear Blast Records (USA)

Genre: Heavy Metal - Progressive Metal

Personnel:
Epica - Simone Simons - Lead Vocals; Mark Jansen - Rhythm Guitars, Grunts; Ad Sluijter - Lead Guitars; Coen Janssen - Piano & Synths; Yves Huts - Bass Guitar; Ariën Van Weesenbeek - Drums
Epica choir - Linda Van Summeren, Bridget Foggle (soprano); Amanda Sommerville, Cinzia Rizzo (alto); Previn Moore (tenor); Melvin Edmondsen (bass instrument).

Guest Appearances: Sander Gommans - Grunts on “Death of a Dream ~ The Embrace That Smothers part VII”; Olaf Reitmeier - Acoustic Guitars on “Chasing The Dragon”; Amanda Somerville - Spoken words in “The Obsessive Devotion”; Gjalt Lucassen - Priest in “Living a Lie ~ The Embrace That Smothers part VIII”; Jaff Wade - Spoken words in “Fools of Damnation ~ The Embrace That Smothers part IX”

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SilverBarron wrote:
Tuesday morning

Love all except Never Enough

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nightfrgi wrote:
Sunday evening

Very good album! This album and new Design Your Universe are best. I love all songs but Death of a dream is worst. The divine conspiracy 13:53 is best song from Epica with Kingdom of heaven. Latin choirs on the album are great!!! Is it second best epica album..

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BritneyFanFeva wrote:
last week

Love most of this cept Chasing The Dragon, basically.

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runforafall wrote:
15 days ago

Weakest Epica album by far, though there are some good songs on it. [2] and also the drums are great in this one!

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xxDISHEELxx wrote:
last month

Never Enough is worst [9]

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Piotr1981 wrote:
last month

@Quispiam "I think the problem with TDC is that I'll never learn to divide the songs." I've got the same problem with some of the Epica songs, not only from this album... Many of them seem so alike...

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MaudlinSky wrote:
last month

Weakest Epica album by far, though there are some good songs on it.

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silversadheart wrote:
last month

"Fools of Damnation" is amazing, "The Obsessive Devotion" too but Simone sounds a bit lame on it :( And I agree, the second half of the album is better, but the whole album is amazing!

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Quispiam wrote:
last month

If I'm to choose my favs I'll pick Fools of Damnation, Living a Lie, Menace of Vanity and The Obsessive Devotion though.

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Quispiam wrote:
last month

What? I love Menace of Vanity :) I think the problem with TDC is that I'll never learn to divide the songs. They're all pretty good, but especially the second half seems like one long song to me. I rarely pick a song and listen, I generally listen to the whole album.

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rakkel17 wrote:
last month

Menace of Vanity is awesome, dont know why many people dislike it O_o

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Jemmarghh wrote:
last month

One of my favourite albums, probably top 10. The Obsessive Devotion is also in my top 10 songs :)

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rakkel17 wrote:
October 2009

Never Enough is worst [8]

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silversadheart wrote:
October 2009

Hell I love the drum works in this album, Ariën is awesome!

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phoenix_wright wrote:
October 2009

Worst is Fools of Damnation despite its high points^^ Never Enough is a good song *voices you can't hear* (I always have that part in my head oO)

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salvador-rudy wrote:
October 2009

Never Enough is worst [7]

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salvador-rudy wrote:
October 2009

this is the best of epica <3 i really love this album

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Jemmarghh wrote:
October 2009

MoV was my first Epica song and it had me hooked. :) I guess I just find it really exciting :D Why do you find it worst?

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nathinha_123 wrote:
October 2009

Never Enough is worst [6]

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Jemmarghh wrote:
October 2009

Never Enough is worst [5]

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