Why the name Epica, and not Sahara Dust?
C: We thought in the first place that Sahara Dust was a good name. We had Helena (Iren Michealsen, ex-Trail Of Tears) in our midst but eventually this relationship broke and that’s the point when we decided to change our name as well. Helena is a world class vocalist and there has already been enough mud-throwing so I’m not going to deep on that anymore. Well, she went back to Norway with the drummer and we eventually found out that we needed a new name for the band. Well, we went to the studio with Sasha (Paeth, o.a. Aina, Rhapsody, Kamelot, Angra. Mat-Core) and it was mere coincidence that Kamelot recorded an album called Epica earlier that year. So we thought, ehj that’s a quite cool name, and thus we decided that Epica was the new band name. Then we looked up the deeper meaning of the word Epica, and that is a place in the universe were all questions of life will be answered. We thought that would fit quite properly with our music style. M: About the writing of material. Is this na