Dutch symphonic rockers Epica have announced two shows for Mexico, as follows:

September

12 - Guadalajara, Mexico - Teatro Diana
13 - Mexico City, Mexico - Teatro Metropolitan

On June 7th, Epica performed a 3-song live acoustic set at the Pinkpop Festival 2014 in Landgraaf, The Netherlands. Pro-shot footage is available below:

The tracklist for Epica's new album, The Quantum Enigma, is as follows:

"Originem"
"The Second Stone"
"The Essence Of Silence"
"Victims Of Contingency"
"Sense Without Sanity (The Impervious Code)"
"Unchain Utopia"
"The Fifth Guardian" (Interlude) "Chemical Insomnia"
"Reverence (Living In The Heart)"
"Omen (The Ghoulish Malady)"
"Canvas Of Life"
"Natural Corruption"
"The Quantum Enigma (Kingdom Of Heaven Part II)"

Digipack additional track: "In All Conscience"

Earbook additional track: "Dreamscape"

Vinyl additional track: "Memento"

iTunes additional track: "Banish Your Illusion"

Disc 2 (Digipack and Earbook only):

"Canvas Of Life" (acoustic version)

"In All Conscience" (acoustic version)

"Dreamscape" (acoustic version)

"Natural Corruption" (acoustic version)

Disc 3 (Earbook Only):

"Originem" (instrumental)

"The Second Stone" (instrumental)

"The Essence Of Silence" (instrumental)

"Victims Of Contingency" (instrumental)

"Sense Without Sanity" (instrumental)

"Unchain Utopia" (instrumental)

"The Fifth Guardian" (instrumental)

"Chemical Insomnia" (instrumental)

"Reverence" (instrumental)

"Omen" (instrumental)

"Canvas Of Life" (instrumental)

"Natural Corruption" (instrumental)

"The Quantum Enigma" (instrumental)

Epica have released a lyric video for the track "Unchain Utopia", featured on the band's new album, The Quantum Enigma, released on May 6th.

Commented guitarist Mark Jansen: “The "Unchain Utopia" lyric video is one of the coolest lyric videos I have ever seen. The footage worked out very well for this approach. Images and words strengthen each other. Initially we had a normal video in mind but that didn't have the same impact. We hope you will enjoy "Unchain Utopia"!!!“

Bass and drum playthrough clips for "The Essence Of Silence" featuring Rob van der Loo and Arien van Weesenbeek respectively:

Epica recently checked in with the following update: "We are excited to announce that we will perform in Lebanon this summer. On August 2nd we will perform at the Byblos International festival in Jbeil-Byblos. We have had a lot of requests from Lebanese fans over the years to perform there. We are happy it will finally happen!"

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Epica's schedule is now as follows:

June

14 - Nickelsdorf, Austria - Novarock
29 - Den Haag, The Netherlands - Parkpop

July

5 - Barcelona, Spain - Barcelona Rock Festival
11 - Vizovice, Czech Republic - Masters Of Rock
12 - Wegorzewo, Poland - Seven Festival

August

2 - Jbeil-Byblos, Lebanon - Byblos International Festival
8 - Vagos, Portugal - Vagos Open Air
10 - Montreal, Quebec - Heavy MTL
16 - Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop
17 - Saint Nolff, France - Motocultor Festival
21 - Bogotá Colombia - Metal Millenium 2014

September

12 - Guadalajara, Mexico - Teatro Diana
13 - Mexico City, Mexico - Teatro Metropolitan

November

20 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Kulturfabrik
21 - Strasbourg, France - La Laiterie
22 - Zurich, Switzerland - X-TRA
24 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz
25 - Rome, Italy - Orion
26 - Marseille, France - Le Moulin
28 - Madrid, Spain - Shoko
29 - Lisbon, Portugal - Paradise Garage
30 - Porto, Portugal - Hard Club Porto Portugal

December

2 - Barcelona, Spain - Apolo
3 - Toulouse, France - Bikini
4 -Bordeaux, France - Rocher de Palmer
6 - London, UK - The Forum
7 - Utrecht, The Netherlands - Vredenburg

January

15 - Paris, France - L’Olympia