Couple of nights ago Within Temptation came to Arenan Fryshuset and Stockholm Sweden.
The sound was for once quite good, dont like the sound in there. The show was very mighty and filled with good tunes. Sharon and her crew was in fantastic form. She brought with her a Swedish guitar man Stefan Helleblad he was quite good :)
Here is some photos from the gig.
Here is the setlist.
They released their fifth album in March 2011 Totd have had the track "Faster" b4.
Members: Sharon den Adel on lead vocals Robert Westerholt on rhythm guitar, grunts (Studio Only) Jeroen van Veen on bass guitar Ruud Jolie on lead guitar Martijn Spierenburg on keyboards Mike Coolen on drums Live members:Stefan Helleblad - Rhythm Guitar (Live Only)
This band did an album not long ago, "The Unforgiving" Its their 5th album, its a bit diffrent from other albums ´cos its released along with some comics books and a serie of short films, to explain a concept.Check it out here.
The initial concept was to write the soundtrack to a film, however the band decided to change direction given the inconsistencies and other issues which movies can undergo.
As vocalist Sharon den Adel commented:
"What happened was that we wanted to write lyrics for a movie. We were searching for a good movie with a good story and everybody had different release dates. If something goes wrong, a movie can very easily be postponed for a year, and we couldn't take the chance to have to wait for that, otherwise we would have had to postpone our album as well. So we decided to take the matter in our own hands."
While shooting the three short films and music videos, Mother Maiden ("Faster"), Sinéad and Triplets ("Shot in the Dark"), the band and director (Joeri Holsheimer) came up with several other ideas, including the decision as to which song would be connected to which story. The band's decision to shoot three short films was mainly to avoid the restrictions imposed on music videos,
as Sharon explained:
"...we wanted to put all the money into the movies. You have a budget and then you have to make choices and, to be honest, MTV and everything, it is not so big anymore. And when you make videos, they always say "you can't use blood, you can't use guns, you can't use..." and we wanted to use everything: blood, guns... everything!"
Dont u know who they are?
Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band, that was formed by Robert Westerholt and Sharon den Adel 1996. WT recieved a lot of awards throughout the time being active.
Okey time to check out the first video from this new album,
In October 2011 this band will come to my home town Stockholm so I thought Ill do a video with em. As I do like this kinda music im sorta thrilled about it :D
They are going out on a massive tour around Europe. ( check the dates in the end)
Here is a message from them: As you know, we have been very busy working on our new album in the past year. It isn’t finished yet, but we’re getting there! We currently have the album scheduled for the beginning of 2011 and of course we will be touring soon after the album release! We’re returning to the European stages in February and March for the first part of the tour and head straight into the festival season after that.
The band's current members are:
Sharon den Adel on Lead vocals Robert Westerholt on Rhythm guitar Jeroen van Veen on Bass Ruud Adrianus Jolie on Lead guitar Martijn Spierenburh on Keyboards
How did they form?
The married couples Robert Westerholt (on guitar) and Sharon den Adel (Vocals) began the band in 1996, after Robert left his previous band, The Circle. The Circle re-named themselves Voyage and released an album called Embrace, including a song featuring Sharon den Adel. Soon after that release the band broke up.[12]
Robert then joined with Sharon in forming Within Temptation, including former The Circle band members Jeroen van Veen on bass guitar and Michiel Papenhove on guitar, as well as Martijn Westerholt on the keyboard and Dennis Leeflang on drums (later replaced by Ivar de Graaf)
They released 4 albums and the 5th Unforgiven is due to come in March 2011.
Listen to ”Within Temptation - Sinéad" on Spotify here!
