My first visit to Place Bell featured some familiar faces here on the Old Blog. Epica, who we last saw on these pages back in January of 2020, was opening up a Saturday night of music out in Laval. Led by what I consider to be one of the best singers in Metal today, Simone Simons, Epica stormed the arena as the light went down and took command of the stage. Speaking of the stage, it presented a bit of a challenge as the front was lined by a barbed wire fence, part of the stage decorations for the band that would be following. As a result, I tried to shoot between the lines of wires, or under them when possible, but it soon became evident that doing so would be quite impossible. So, should you notice some wire going through some of the photographs here, you now know why. Getting back to Epica, they were touring to support their latest
album, Omega, which came out in February of last year. They also have a new EP coming out in November called 'The Alchemy Project', which features the band teaming up with other influental names from the world of Heavy Metal. Even though they were opening the show, there was a loud group of fans out early to support them as the line stretched to almost the entire front block of the building when I arrived. The chants of "Epica! Epica!" were also heard loud and clear through my protective earplugs as show time neared. They had sold out the Théâtre Corona last time they were here, so it was good to see them play on a bigger stage to a bigger audience. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 42mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/500sec, ISO 3200 at 24mm. Here are several more photographs of their performance.
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