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This Thursday, EPICA will kick off The Ultimate Principle Tour – Latin America in Montevideo, Uruguay. On this tour, EPICA will perform 8 dates in Brazil including cities where the band has never performed during their 15-year career, next to additional dates in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The band is excited to perform tracks from The Holographic Principle and The Solace System for their Latin American fans for the first time.

EPICA guitarist Mark Jansen comments: “We are very happy to announce we are finally returning to Latin America! As I have noticed many fans are so much looking forward to that as well. We are all very excited and can’t wait to party with you guys!!!“
 
Tickets are available via www.epica.nl/tour

The Ultimate Principle Tour – Latin America 2018
01.03.              UY       Montevideo – Music Box *NEW VENUE*
03.03.              CL       Santiago – Teatro Caupolicán
04.03.              AR       Buenos Aires – Teatro Flores
06.03.              AR       Salta – Teatro del Huerto
09.03.              BR       Belo Horizonte – Music Hall BH
10.03.              BR       São Paulo – Tropical Butantã
11.03.              BR       Rio de Janeiro – Circo Voador
13.03.              BR       Porto Alegre – Opinião
14.03.              BR       Curitiba – Spazio Van
16.03.              BR       Manaus – Teatro Manauara
17.03.              BR       Fortaleza – Espaco Jangada *NEW VENUE*
18.03.              BR       Recife – Clube Português do Recife

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EPICA is also excited to return to UK & Ireland this April for »The United Principle Tour« with MYRKUR and OCEANS OF SLUMBER! The band will play UK venues nationwide as well as their very first ever Irish show at Dublin’s Tivoli!
 
Guitarist Mark Jansen comments: “We’re coming back to the UK and not for just 1 show like last time! We‘ll do a full UK tour and we‘re super stoked to also play in Ireland for the very first time!!! We’re looking very much forward to it! See you in April!”

The United Principle Tour
w/ MYRKUR, OCEANS OF SLUMBER
06.04.  UK       Nottingham – Rock City
07.04.  UK       Glasgow – ABC1
08.04.  UK       Bristol – o2 Academy
10.04.  IRL       Dublin – Tivoli
12.04.  UK       Manchester – o2 Ritz
13.04.  UK       London – o2 Forum

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On Saturday 14th April, 2018 symphonic metal icons EPICA will celebrate their 1000th show anniversary at 013 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. After their recent sold out shows in the Netherlands, EPICA is more than proud to announce that they will perform this mile-stone event at the legendary 013 venue, the exact same venue where it all started for the band 16 years ago!

Rest assured that this night will be celebrated the right way as EPICA invited some very special guests to make sure this night will be remembered! Italian metal maestros LACUNA COIL, Danish metal sensation MYRKUR, Holland‘s prog-death outfit MaYaN, USA‘s progressive metallers OCEANS OF SLUMBER and French metal outfit NIGHTMARE are completing the bill!

Simone Simons (vocalist): “Back in 2002, we could have never imagined that one day we’d be playing our 1,000th live show! This couldn’t have happened without the support of our dearest and most loyal EPICA legion, so in order to make this an unforgettable night, we’ve invited some very cool guests to perform with us!”
 
Tickets are running out and can be purchased via www.epica.nl/tour

»1000th Show Anniversary«
w/ LACUNA COIL, MYRKUR, MAYAN, OCEANS OF SLUMBER, NIGHTMARE
14.04.  NL        Tilburg – 013

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Festival shows of EPICA:
15./16.06.       E          Zamora – Z! Live Rock Fest
21.06.             N         Halden – Tons of Rock
05.07.             CH       Pratteln – Z7 Open Air (w/ ELUVEITIE, EXCELSIS)
06./07.07.       RO       Bucharest – Metalhead Meeting
22. – 28.07.     SLO      Tolmin – Metaldays
25.07.             H         Székesfehérvár – Fezen Festival
27.07.             SLO      Tolmin – Metaldays
02. – 04.08.     D         Wacken – Wacken Open Air
11.08.              B          Kortrijk – Alcatraz Metal Festival
17./18.08.       CZ        Moravský Krumlov – Rock Heart
17./18.08.       A         Graz – Metal on the Hill

Order EPICA ‘s latest EP, The Solace System, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
EPICA Webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem
Purchase the digital version or stream the EP, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaDigital