Isaac Delahaye

We added a song we haven’t played in years to the summer festival setlist, and I’m in 😍 with the sacred geometry visuals that accompany the track.
Too bad I can never see the show from the audience though 😂
Either way, I’m having a great festival season so far! 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻
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2026-06-22 21:34:22 CEST

Here’s a new live track from earlier this year, featuring some of our friends from the metal scene 💣💥
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/TrHXFY3Gzs8?si=m3UvadYSKxArfw_2

2026-05-10 18:32:32 CEST

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Well, I guess it has to do with flow & vibe. We’re so used to 4/4 music. Calculated & within boudaries.
But when composing without a 4/4 in mind, you often feel the music flow much more into the unknown. That’s usually when odd signatures appear. If done right, you don’t really notice them; the flow seems perfectly logical.
F.e. the mid-parts of Universal Death Squad and Darkness Dies in Light. It basically wrote itself once I stopped caring about time signatures, and I just let the music I already had dictate what should come next.

2026-05-07 19:43:55 CEST

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Reminds me of Myrkur and Heilung

2026-05-07 18:00:57 CEST

Here’s a new live video from the European tour we did earlier this year. Buckle up!🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
https://youtu.be/kA7qy_cX7gY?si=2WFP-8ZpH2hVi6jt

2026-05-02 09:48:21 CEST

Seems like Charlie Munger was right after all. Bitcoin is as evil as can be 👻
https://blossom.primal.net/d1dd91746f685f9620dc0ea49430adaa967eb66db550e3ac94c1f6d214fa5fa7.jpg

2026-04-28 13:25:15 CEST

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Hehe, pretty sure indeed 😉

2026-04-28 13:24:43 CEST

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It’s actually the Epica song Danse Macabre - The Ghost in Me ☝🏻🤓
I also absolutely love Yngwie, and therefore I’m sure I stole plenty of his stuff 🫣

2026-04-28 13:21:21 CEST

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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 LOL!

2026-04-27 20:04:25 CEST

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Haha, true! 😂

2026-04-27 19:46:53 CEST

On a scale from 1 to 666, how blistering ugly is this Gibson les paul?! 😃🤷🏻‍♂️
Used it during the shoot of the Danse Macabre videoclip 👻
https://blossom.primal.net/a4613880fc9c93aaf769c8fb5744e6522fa12ada9e7cd122618728e4553e2bec.mp4

2026-04-21 09:05:13 CEST

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Yay! Congrats, Jack! 💍
Wishing you & your girl the best possible future ❤️
And great episode 🤓👌🏻 If everything is a derivative of energy, then yóu are one hell of a derivative, buddy 🫡

2026-04-20 20:48:19 CEST

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That was about time. Now let’s see what the judge comes up with 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻

2026-04-19 22:38:24 CEST

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😂

2026-04-19 21:52:57 CEST

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Pizza hawaii!

2026-04-19 18:42:30 CEST

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Sweet! 😍

2026-04-18 09:51:02 CEST

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The only right answer, actually 😂👌🏻

2026-04-17 18:12:20 CEST

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Yeah, that 808 is a parlor. Check any of the Epica acoustic songs we’ve done and you’ll hear how it sounds. So far it beats any other acoustic guitar I’ve tried either live or in the studio

2026-04-17 16:01:50 CEST

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The Maton TE808. Always! 💛

2026-04-17 15:59:26 CEST

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They are, and they should be! ;)

2026-04-17 14:12:01 CEST

Which one would you pick? 🤔
I’ll go for the YJM Fender strat today 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻
#guitar
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2026-04-17 14:02:42 CEST

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Am I the only one who read “stretch your ass” at first glance?! 🫣

2026-04-16 22:24:45 CEST

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😂

2026-04-16 22:23:10 CEST

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😂😂😂

2026-04-16 21:45:09 CEST

Well, this proves it.
Michael Saylor doesn’t sell 😎👌🏻
https://blossom.primal.net/21fa520f4bbab7e5e3e70e846fecaf17e21004533839f2ad264daf6951ae92c3.jpg

2026-04-14 19:07:34 CEST

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Oh yeah, baby! 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻

2026-04-14 18:45:21 CEST

Hello, friend 👋🏻😎
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2026-04-13 09:11:06 CEST

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Right!!! 🥳

2026-04-13 09:10:28 CEST

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Checking in regularly ☝🏻🤓

2026-04-13 00:26:53 CEST

Solo snippet from the “Universal Death Squad” playthrough I did 10 (🤯) years ago. We should play this song more often!
#guitar #epica
https://blossom.primal.net/5e2574114ce99b515a724b1e7fd5b6960205ba1e790710207dfa509dbf9a3dac.mp4

2026-04-12 20:53:28 CEST

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Haha, exactly! 😂👌🏻

2026-04-12 16:52:05 CEST

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Oh my… 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 What a world…

2026-04-10 18:19:58 CEST

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Better than nothing though!

2026-04-10 08:22:11 CEST

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Yeah, totally! Even with random sounds you’re still able to hear how it flows 👌🏻 On the last tour I tried a mini spark that was lying around. Even basic sounds were good enough to fool around.
Wish I had 3h to practice every day ☝🏻😃

2026-04-10 00:17:38 CEST

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Oh 😳 that’s a cool gadget! Does this work with a regular guitar? Like, what’s the setup flow? 🤔

2026-04-09 23:58:42 CEST

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🫡

2026-04-09 23:46:56 CEST

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Great episode! 😎👌🏻

2026-04-07 22:14:26 CEST

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Love it! 😍

2026-04-07 22:06:11 CEST

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Glad to hear everyone is doing okayish 🍀🍀🍀

2026-04-06 20:39:04 CEST

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Yeah, true. Although that also means I’ll be waiting to actually start testing agents 🤷🏻‍♂️
Tried Replit last year, but quickly found out I wasn’t technical enough for the troubleshooting.

2026-04-06 17:01:13 CEST

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Having the same consideration actually.
What about Mac mini + openclaw + shakespeare? 🤔
Just to fool around with agents, automantions & trying to build useful stuff to make my life easier.

2026-04-06 16:50:50 CEST

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🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻

2026-04-03 17:11:22 CEST

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Ow, forgot to add #asknostr ☝🏻😬

2026-04-03 16:57:23 CEST

This is an awesome read!
Just wondering if there’s people out there who think the BTC power law is total BS?! 🤔
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2026-04-03 16:31:31 CEST

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True. Smaller banks are harder and harder to find. And yeah, no more cash means more surveillance 🥴

2026-04-02 21:50:26 CEST

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Yo!

2026-04-02 08:37:11 CEST

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GM! ☕️

2026-04-01 07:32:38 CEST

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I know. Crrrrrázy! 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-04-01 07:29:07 CEST

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Regular LP scale, but indeed set up like a regular 7string

2026-04-01 07:26:46 CEST

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😂

2026-04-01 07:26:10 CEST

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🤒

2026-04-01 00:18:27 CEST

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7string btw! ☝🏻🤓

2026-04-01 00:15:56 CEST

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Absolutely! Also, just the way she was so casual about it 🤦🏻‍♂️

2026-04-01 00:14:35 CEST

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In the centre of the EU, Belgium! 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-03-31 23:16:38 CEST

Needed some cash today.
Walked into a bank.
Looked around, got confused.
Employee asked me what I was looking for.
When I said I was looking for the ATM, she simply replied “You can’t get cash in a bank anymore”.
Like… eh… 🤔😳🤯🤯🤯🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-03-26 14:09:18 CET

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Blown away by this! Need to check it out 👌🏻

2026-03-26 14:08:12 CET

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Blown away by this conversation 🤯 Need to look into all of this, after I gave up on Replit last year, trying it to properly & flawlessly do things for several months.
#nevent1q…vdqm

2026-03-24 10:14:15 CET

The final stretch of our European tour took us to Budapest 🇭🇺 Prague 🇨🇿 and Frankfurt 🇩🇪
So happy with how this tour turned out! It’s been months and months of preparation, tweaking, meetings, and I’m damn proud of the show we’ve created. We had an amazing crew, from truck drivers to tour managers and everything in between.
It’s bittersweet it is over, but at least I have the best of memories while I’m enjoying spending time at home with my awesome family ❤️
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2026-03-22 18:16:52 CET

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And Alicia on bass, as far as I can tell? 🤔

2026-03-20 23:34:21 CET

The crowd in both Warsaw 🇵🇱 and Vienna 🇦🇹 were absolutely insane 🤘🏻🤯🤘🏻
Only a couple more shows before I finally see my family again ❤️
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2026-03-19 00:52:56 CET

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Yes! True! 😃👌🏻

2026-03-18 14:25:02 CET

And now -hopefully- with the thumbnail attached 🖼️
https://youtu.be/0jAKziovR9s?si=GncNeLKf84LTj4ap

2026-03-17 15:10:21 CET

🤓👌🏻
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2026-03-16 22:50:33 CET

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Extremely insightful 👌🏻

2026-03-15 20:27:43 CET

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😂

2026-03-15 20:27:09 CET

Another spicy week, visiting Stockholm 🇸🇪 Oulu 🇫🇮 Helsinki 🇫🇮 and Tallinn 🇪🇪
One more week of goodness to come! 🤘🏻
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2026-03-15 17:24:19 CET

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No idea! 🤷🏻‍♂️ Purple?

2026-03-14 12:40:14 CET

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We’ll be in China this September!

2026-03-11 22:51:12 CET

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I totally agree!

2026-03-11 15:16:03 CET

Back at it! 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻
Hamburg 🇩🇪 Leipzig 🇩🇪 Berlin 🇩🇪 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 in the books, and currently in Scandinavia. Good times 🔥
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2026-03-09 23:33:49 CET

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He’s 5

2026-03-09 19:55:57 CET

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It seems to help both him and me actually.
He’s still figuring out emotions and testing boundaries. I think I shouldn’t judge his anger, or reply anger with anger, so he simply gets the space to explore those emotions.
And it also gives me the space I need, cause it’s pretty damn hard to keep your calm in a situation like that :)

2026-03-09 17:43:25 CET

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👊🏻

2026-03-09 17:42:39 CET

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Depends, but it usually takes more time than I anticipated. He’s as stubborn as his dad ;)

2026-03-09 15:34:47 CET

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Very relatable :) I usually let him have his moment, tell him he’s always welcome to come back to me when he thinks he’s calmed down. Then we hug it out.
Or I loose my calm 😂

2026-03-07 23:39:03 CET

Time to bang your head! 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻
https://youtu.be/0jAKziovR9s

2026-03-06 10:25:38 CET

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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQeh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58e73701-53df-4dd4-acaa-b1a5380a32da_1082x1382.heic
He’s shown this frame on his weekly podcasts

2026-03-06 09:16:31 CET

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Now let’s hear YOUR back story! 🤔

2026-03-05 12:10:14 CET

Here we go again! You’ll find me on the road in the coming weeks. Come and say hi if we’re in your area 🤘🏻🤪🤘🏻
https://blossom.primal.net/988a4f8c3206c45a715028bcec9ac3b010310d188985b18338cf28a44e179309.jpg

2026-03-03 22:10:30 CET

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Haha, it sure did 😂

2026-03-03 20:16:49 CET

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Actually I never really auditioned for Epica.
Back in 2004, while I was doing college of music, I was asked by keyboard player Coen to replace their guitar player for just 1 show in France. Afterwards, we kept in touch throughout the years, and I also played in one of Coen’s bands for his final exam at college of music.
Then when that same guitar player decided to leave the band in 2008, they just asked me again.
Fun story:
Right before I did the rehearsal for that 1 show in 2004, the drummer mentioned he’d give me a hard time just to stir things up within the band.
A couple of songs in, he stopped playing and started shouting at me. “You haven’t played a single straight note. You totally suck. I don’t want you to play the show. Etc etc” He really went all in, and everyone was so confused. They asked me to play certain riffs, didn’t hear what was wrong, but the drummer kept saying how bad it sounded and shit. At some point I actually was in doubt if it was still part of his prank or if he was actually serious 😂

2026-03-02 23:22:20 CET

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Looking back, the things that gave me the most return, were all the instances that pushed me out of my comfort zone.
My parents enrolling me to music academy while I couldn’t care less at the time.
My classical guitar teacher challenging me to actually start practicing instead of just coming to class. I took the challenge.
Some classmates asking me to start a band with them, cause there was a “free stage” coming up at school.
Joining bands with older, better and more experienced players. Shaky legs, but I was determined to catch up.
Deciding to go and study electric guitar in a different country. I knew absolutely no-one there and felt so out of place.
Learning myself how to code websites and how to use photoshop so I could start designing band artwork and online promo.
Traveling 7 hours by train to go and do audition for a band that I thought was way above my league. I ended up recording several albums and touring the world for a couple of years with them.
There’s many more examples of this, and they all have the same things in common: fear and/or struggle, and the pulling “nah, forget about it” option.
Unless my gut feeling told me to not do something, I always took the challenge. No matter what.
And I still do. Every tour I impose a certain challenge on myself. Can be anything, f.e. water only, no carbs, practice daily, cold showers only, daily workout, etc. Some of them have been insane, but I love the all-or-nothing attitude :)

2026-02-22 13:44:43 CET

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Most of the times 😂

2026-02-20 18:45:36 CET

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Yeah! Great energy 🔥

2026-02-17 20:34:15 CET

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Had sth similar going on a couple of months ago. Not with a bank tho. Either way, using cash seems evil these days 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-02-17 18:06:43 CET

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Keep grinding gears! 🤘🏻

2026-02-15 20:58:34 CET

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So relatable ❣️

2026-02-15 11:10:17 CET

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😘😉

2026-02-15 10:56:40 CET

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I sure do! I’m not ashamed, and seems like a lot of people around the world are not really disgusted about this ;)

2026-02-15 10:54:40 CET

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Depends what kinda material we’re talking about. But I like the contrast, and both give me a lot of fulfilment 👌🏻

2026-02-13 23:09:05 CET

I’ve been enjoying everything about just being home with the fam, after we topped off the 1st leg of our European tour a couple of days ago 🤘🏻
No glam & glory for now. Instead, back to farm life. Perfect! 🚜💨🪾🐎💩👨🏻‍🌾🧒🏼👩🏻‍🌾❤️
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2026-02-09 12:24:41 CET

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😉😂
No full show recording planned though

2026-02-09 12:22:05 CET

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🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

2026-02-07 17:16:35 CET

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What’s a DVD?!? 🤔😉

2026-02-07 10:07:22 CET

Played Lisbon 🇵🇹 Toulouse 🇫🇷 Lyon 🇫🇷 and Ludwigsburg 🇩🇪 this week, and topping it off with a final show in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 tonight 🤘🏻
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2026-02-03 00:22:05 CET

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That sucks! But eh… did you turn the bac on?! 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-02-02 02:25:21 CET

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🤘🏻🥳🤘🏻