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Epica discography
Epíca performing live at Rockharz Open Air, 2019
Studio albums8
EPs6
Soundtrack albums1
Live albums5
Compilation albums4
Singles43
Video albums4
Music videos17
Track commentary2

The discography of Epica, a Dutch symphonic metal band, consists of eight studio albums, two track commentary albums, five live albums, six extended plays, one soundtrack, forty-three singles and one other release.

Albums

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Studio albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
NLD
[1]
AUT
[2]
BEL
[3]
FIN
[4]
FRA
[5]
GER
[6]
JPN
[7]
SWI
[8]
UK
[9]
US
[10]
The Phantom Agony
  • Released: 5 June 2003
  • Label: Transmission
  • Formats: CD
8 114
Consign to Oblivion
  • Released: 21 April 2005
  • Label: Transmission
  • Formats: CD
12 52 116
The Divine Conspiracy 9 40 35 41 148 29
Design Your Universe
  • Released: 16 October 2009
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
8 70 40 31 37 228 27
Requiem for the Indifferent
  • Released: 9 March 2012
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
12 33 27 37 35 26 172 14 112 105
The Quantum Enigma
  • Released: 2 May 2014
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
4 30 33 26 38 11 68 17 53 110
The Holographic Principle
  • Released: 30 September 2016
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
4 21 12 26 26 9 105 8 46 139
Omega
  • Released: 26 February 2021
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
7 15 6 18 49 4 113 5 73
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

Track commentary albums

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Title Album details
The Quantum Enigma (Track Commentary)
  • Released: 2 May 2014
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: Digital download
The Holographic Principle (Track Commentary)
  • Released: 19 March 2019
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: Digital download

Live albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
NLD
[1]
FRA
[5]
GER
[6]
SWI
[8]
We Will Take You with Us
  • Released: September 2004
  • Label: Transmission
  • Formats: CD, DVD
62
The Classical Conspiracy
  • Released: 8 May 2009
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD
23 43 87 81
Retrospect
  • Released: 8 November 2013
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, DVD, Blu-ray
7 167 46
Omega Alive
  • Released: 2 December 2021
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, DVD, Blu-ray
56 26 41
Live at Paradiso
  • Released: 2 September 2022
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: 2×CD+DVD, 3×LP
77
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

Soundtracks

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
NLD
[1]
FRA
[5]
The Score – An Epic Journey
  • Released: 8 September 2005
  • Label: Transmission
  • Formats: CD
54 191

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
NLD
[1]
The Road to Paradiso
  • Released: 8 May 2006
  • Label: Transmission
  • Formats: CD
46
The Singles Collection
  • Released: 14 May 2010
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: Digital download
Best Of
  • Released: 14 October 2013
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: digital download
We Still Take You With Us - The Early Years (box set)
  • Released: 2 September 2022
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, Blu-ray, DVD, 11xLP box
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

Video albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions
SWI
[14]
We Will Take You with Us
  • Released: September 2004
  • Label: Transmission Records
  • Formats: DVD
Retrospect
  • Released: 8 November 2013
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: DVD+CD, Blu-ray+CD
9
Omega Alive
  • Released: 2 December 2021
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: DVD, Blu-ray
Live at Paradiso
  • Released: 2 September 2022
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: 2×CD+DVD
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

EPs

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Title EP details Peak chart positions
NLD
[1]
AUT
[2]
BEL
[3]
GER
[6]
JPN
[7]
SWI
[8]
The Solace System
  • Released: 1 September 2017[15]
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
60
Epica vs Attack on Titan Songs
  • Released:
    20 December 2017 (Japan)
    20 July 2018 (world)
  • Label: Chaos Reigns / Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
53 48 82 15
The Acoustic Universe
  • Released: 4 October 2019
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: LP
The Quantum Enigma B-Sides
  • Released: 11 September 2020
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: digital download
Omegacoustic
  • Released: 25 February 2021
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, digital download
The Alchemy Project
  • Released: 11 November 2022[16]
  • Label: Atomic Fire
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
40 60 194 39 35
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

Live EPs

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Title Details
Live at the AFAS Live
  • Released: 6 March 2023
  • Label: Atomic Fire
  • Formats: digital download

Singles

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Title Year Peak chart positions Album
NLD
[17]
"The Phantom Agony" 2003 The Phantom Agony
"Feint" 2004
"Cry for the Moon"
"Solitary Ground" 2005 46 Consign to Oblivion
"Quietus (Silent Reverie)" 68
"Never Enough" 2007 The Divine Conspiracy
"Chasing the Dragon" 2008
"Unleashed" 2009 Design Your Universe
"Martyr of the Free Word / From the Heaven of My Heart"
"This is the Time" 2010 Non-album single
"Storm the Sorrow" 2012 Requiem for the Indifferent
"Forevermore" Non-album single
"Happiness" Acoustic Dance Sessions
"Unleashed" 2013 Retrospect
"The Essence of Silence" 2014 The Quantum Enigma
"Unchain Utopia"
"Live at the AB" 2015 Non-album single
"Universal Death Squad" 2016 The Holographic Principle
"Edge of the Blade"
"Fight Your Demons" The Solace System
"The Solace System" 2017
"Crimson Bow and Arrow" 2018 Epica Vs Attack on Titan Songs
"If Inside These Walls Was a House"
"Beyond the Matrix - The Battle" Non-album single
"Kingdom of Heaven" 2019 Design Your Universe (Gold Edition)
"Abyss of Time" 2020 Omega
"Freedom – The Wolves Within"
"Rivers" 2021
"The Skeleton Key"
"Unchain Utopia - Omega Alive" Omega Alive
"The Skeleton Key - Omega Alive"
"Kingdom of Heaven Part 3 - The Antediluvian Universe - Omega Alive"
"Sensorium" (Live at Paradiso) 2022 Live at Paradiso
"The Last Crusade" (Live at Paradiso)
"Run for a Fall" (Acoustic) We Still Take You with Us
"The Final Lullaby" The Alchemy Project
"The Great Tribulation"
"Rivers" (Live at the AFAS Live) 2023 Live at the AFAS Live
"Unleashed" (Live at the AFAS Live)
"Consign to Oblivion" (Live at the AFAS Live)
"Beyond the Matrix" (Live at the AFAS Live)
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released

Other releases

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Title Album details
Jägermeister Memory Stick

Music videos

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Year Title Directed Album
2003 "The Phantom Agony" Frank Herrebout The Phantom Agony
2004 "Feint"
2005 "Solitary Ground" Consign to Oblivion
"Quietus" Mirko Cocco
2007 "Never Enough"[18] Ivan Colic The Divine Conspiracy
2009 "Unleashed"[19] Tim Bown Design Your Universe
2010 "This is the Time"
2012 "Storm the Sorrow" Remko Tielemans Requiem for the Indifferent
"Forevermore" (Ruurd Woltring feat. Epica)[20] Niks te gek!

(Dutch 'NTR' TV show)

2014 "Victims of Contingency"[21] Remko Tielemans The Quantum Enigma
2015 "The Obsessive Devotion (LIVE in Russia)"[22] Tele-Club Video Production The Divine Conspiracy
"The Essence of Silence (LIVE in Brussels)"[23] Jens De Vos The Quantum Enigma
"Unchain Utopia (LIVE in Brussels)"[24]
2016 "Universal Death Squad"[25] Jens De Vos The Holographic Principle
2016 "Edge of the Blade"[26]
2016 "Beyond the Matrix"[27]
2017 "The Solace System"[28] Davide Cilloni The Solace System
"Immortal Melancholy" Davide Cilloni
2018 "Decoded Poetry" Davide Cilloni
"Universal Love Squad" Jens De Vos The Holographic Principle
2019 "Martyr of the Free Word - Acoustic Version" Design Your Universe - Gold Edition
2020 "Abyss of Time – Countdown to Singularity" Grupa 13 Omega
"Freedom – The Wolves Within" Bram Knol
"Abyss o' Time" Jens De Vos
2021 "Omegacoustic"
"The Skeleton Key" Grupa 13
"Unchain Utopia - Omega Alive" Jens De Vos Omega Alive
"The Skeleton Key - Omega Alive"
"Kingdom of Heaven Part 3 - The Antediluvian Universe - Omega Alive"
"Victims of Contingency - Omega Alive"
2022 "Beyond the Matrix - Live at the Zenith" The Holographic Principle
"Sirens – Of Blood And Water" Patric Ullaeus The Alchemy Project
"The Final Lullaby" Jens De Vos

Guest appearances

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  • "Happiness" (Alexis Jordan cover - released on October 9, 2012 on the album Acoustic Dance Sessions by various artists)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Dutch Album Charts > Epica" (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Austrian Charts > Epica" (in German). austriancharts.at Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Belgium (Flanders) Charts > Epica" (in Dutch). ultratop.be/nl Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Finnish Charts > Epica". finnishcharts.com Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "French Charts > Epica" (in French). lescharts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  6. ^ a b c "Discographie von Epica". GfK Entertainment. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b "エピカのアルバム売上ランキング" [Epica album sales ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon, Inc. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  8. ^ a b c "Swiss Charts > Epica" (in German). swisscharts.com Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  9. ^ "UK Charts > Epica". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
    "CHART: CLUK Update 24.03.2012 (wk11)". zobbel.de. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  10. ^ "Epica Billboard Chart History". www.billboard.com. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
  11. ^ a b c "EPICA: 'The Quantum Enigma' First-Week Chart Positions Revealed". www.blabbermouth.net. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  12. ^ "EPICA: 'The Classical Conspiracy' First-Week Sales Revealed". www.blabbermouth.net. 27 May 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  13. ^ Brown, Matt (11 December 2013). "Metal By Numbers 12/11: The Charts Show a Bit of Common Courtesy". www.metalinsider.net. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  14. ^ "SCHWEIZER HITPARADE - MUSIK-DVD TOP 10 24.11.2013". hitparade.ch. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  15. ^ "EPICA to Release 'The Solace System' EP in September". 23 June 2017.
  16. ^ "EPICA Announces 'The Alchemy Project'". Blabbermouth.net. 16 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
  17. ^ "Dutch Singles Charts > Epica" (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
  18. ^ "EPICA: 'Never Enough' Video Available". www.blabbermouth.net. 4 August 2007. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  19. ^ "EPICA: 'Unleashed' Video Released". www.blabbermouth.net. 25 September 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  20. ^ "Ruurd Woltring feat. EPICA - 'Forevermore'". www.youtube.com.
  21. ^ "EPICA: 'Victims Of Contingency' Video Released". Blabbermouth.net. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  22. ^ "Epica - The Obsessive Devotion (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)'". youtube.com (EPICA channel). Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  23. ^ "Epica – The Essence Of Silence (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)'". youtube.com (EPICA channel). Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  24. ^ "Epica – Unchain Utopia (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)'". youtube.com (EPICA channel). Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  25. ^ "EPICA – Universal Death Squad'". youtube.com (EPICA channel). Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  26. ^ "EPICA - EDGE OF THE BLADE (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)'". youtube.com (EPICA channel). Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  27. ^ Nuclear Blast Records (11 January 2017), EPICA - Beyond The Matrix (OFFICIAL VIDEO), retrieved 24 August 2017
  28. ^ Nuclear Blast Records (23 June 2017), EPICA - The Solace System (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO), retrieved 24 August 2017
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