After eight Epica records, soprano empress Simone Simons has carved out her own symphonic metal universe. The Dutch singer’s first solo album is drowning in a sea of red. Rising and diving from ...

Simone Simons: Mess up onstage. You can just laugh at it and the audience might like it and turn it into a joke. If you’re late to the show, I don’t know that would feel like -- a worst ...

We sit down with Simone Simons of EPICA to ask her 11 'Ask The Artist' questions, while on "The Ultimate Principle" tour through North America. Simone reveals what her first performance was like ...