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Today's Song: Pirates of the Caribbean by Epica

A lot of bands pretend to fuse classical music with hard rock or heavy metal. Epica makes it pretty clear that they're one of the few who actually do it. ^_^

It's actually kind of hard to hear the band itself in these live fan videos, but the cd The Classical Conspiracy was recorded live at the same festival and on that you can hear the fusion of rock band and orchestra much better.

I need to get this cd. In the meantime, I downloaded several tracks from Amazon.com, including these t hree.

Epica -- Pirates of the Caribbean (live)
Epica -- Pirates of the Caribbean (from the cd, but also recorded live from the same show)

Epica -- The Imperial March (live)
Epica -- THe Imperial March (cd version)

Epica -- Verdi's Dies Irae (live)
Epica -- Verdi's Dies Irae (cd version)