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Epica

Dutch symphonic metal band
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Summary

Epica is a musical group[1]. Epica ranks in the top 5% of musical group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,506 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: symphonic metal[3], gothic metal[4], melodic death metal[5]
  • Record label: Nuclear Blast[6]
  • Discography: Epica discography[7]
  • Commons category: Epica[8]
  • Country of origin: Netherlands[9]
  • Has part(s): Mark Jansen[10], Simone Simons[11], Coen Janssen[12], Ariën van Weesenbeek[13], Isaac Delahaye[14], Rob van der Loo[15]
  • Website account on: ReverbNation[16]
  • Inception: 2002[17]
  • Location of formation: Reuver[18], Limburg[19]
  • Official website: https://epica.nl/[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Epica[21]
  • Commons gallery: Epica[22]
  • Topic has template: Template:Epica[23]
  • Official name: Epica[24]
  • Start of work period: 2003[25]
  • Has list: list of concert tours by Epica[26]
  • Member category: Category:Epica members[27], Category:Epica (band) members[28]
  • Social media followers: 237,962[29], 240,518[30]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[31]

  • Country: NL[32]

  • Began / founded: 2002-05-18[33]

  • Genre(s): gothic metal, metal, power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal[34]

  • Community tags: female fronted, gothic metal, metal, power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal[35]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 21985b14-1b0d-44fe-b357-310b29bba510[36]

Why It Matters

Epica has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Epica is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Related Entities

Netherlands Nuclear Blast Simone Simons

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [34] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [35] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [36] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · ~2026-34967-17 · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → symphonic metal, gothic metal, melodic death metal
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Genre: gothic metal"
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0278800-Epica-hudebni-skupina
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0278800-Epica-hudebni-skupina, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  3. 19w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member category → Category:Epica members, Category:Epica (band) members
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Member category: Category:Epica (band) members, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  4. 20w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged license → —
    Instance of → musical group
    Instance of → —
    Record label → Nuclear Blast
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Member category: Category:Epica (band) members, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect Category:Epica members → Category:Epica (band) members ([[:toollabs:editgroups/"
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