I just learned that
Within Temptation is about to release a new album,
The Heart of Everything, next month. Seems like they will mix their typical symphonic metal sound with a few more "normal" rock songs this time. I rarely ever pre-order anything, but this is one exception.
Since I like almost all of their music this put me in the mood to listen to a marathon of older Within Temptation songs:
From the
Mother Earth album I listened to the ballad
Our Farewell, a great song that gives me some celtic associations for some reason, and
Ice Queen and
The Promise which both are more typical of their style of symphonic heavy metal.
Further I listened to
See who I am from
The Silent Force album which has a very high goose bump factor.
Running up that hill, a great cover of the old Kate Bush song, from the single with the same name.
I rounded off with
Restless from the
Enter album, another ballad with great singing from Sharon, the band's lead singer.
(The above linked youtube live clips I dug up to illustrate have rather poor sound quality, but should still give some idea of what they sound like.
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