Dutch symphonic metal band Epica will release their new album Ωmega on February 26 through Nuclear Blast. The band has revealed their 14th vlog and give an insight about the songwriting, the album concept and the artwork created by Heilemania.

"This month our new album Ωmega will finally be released, thank you for all your patience! In this vlog we talk about some lyrical concepts and personal views about our road to Ωmega. Also we go more in-depth into the cover artwork with Heile", comments Mark Jansen.

Pre-order the Ωmega album in the format of your choice here. Pre-save here.

Ωmega will be available in the following formats:

- CD Jewelcase

- 2 CD Jewelcase In Slipcase (U.S. Edition)
  32p booklet
  Regular CD
  Acoustic CD

- 2 CD Digibook
  32p booklet
   Regular CD
  Acoustic CD

- 4 CD Earbook  (Limited to 3500)
  48p Earbook
  Acoustic CD
  Orchestral CD
  Instrumental CD

- Vinyl-Box (Limited to 1500)
  4CD Earbook
  2LP Picture Disc
  Golden Necklace with Ankh symbol

- 2 LP
  Black
  Blue / Green Swirl (Limited to 2000)
  Beer / Bone Swirl (Limited to 300)
  White (Limited to 300)
  Turquoise / Black Marbled (Limited to 1600)
  White / Blue Splatter (Limited to 300)
  Transparent Red (Limited to 400)
  Transparent Orange (Limited to 300)
  White / Gold Splatter (Limited to 200)
  Glow-In-The-Dark (Limited to 200)

About the new album, Mark Jansen comments: "I am very proud of this album, as I am convinced we have written a very refreshing and well-balanced album even after so many years of existence. Our strength is that we have many great songwriters in one band. We have managed to combine each other's strongest qualities and select the best songs. It was a fruitful period of spending time together to work as one team on those tracks. I think this has made the biggest difference compared to our previous albums. Still using the advantages of comfortably sending files by the internet to each other but combining that with coming physically together again to work on all the tracks. I think I have listened to 'Ωmega about 50 times already and still can't get enough of it!"

Ωmega tracklisting:

"Alpha - Anteludium
"Abyss Of Time - Countdown To Singularity"
"The Skeleton Key"
"Seal of Solomon"
"Gaia"
"Code Of Life"
"Freedom - The Wolves Within"
"Kingdom Of Heaven, Part 3 - The Antediluvian Universe"
"Rivers"
"Synergize - Manic Manifest"
"Twilight Reverie - The Hypnagogic State"
"Ωmega - Sovereign Of The Sun Spheres"

"Rivers" visualizer:

"Freedom - The Wolves Within" video:

"Abyss Of Time" video:

"Abyss Of Time" (Acoustic) video:

Epica is:

Simone Simons - vocals
Isaac Delahaye - guitars
Mark Jansen - guitars, grunts, screams
Coen Janssen - synths, piano
Ariën van Weesenbeek - drums
Rob van der Loo - bass