It was a great commercial success, hitting the Top Ten in seven European countries, and the band toured heavily to promote it. In the band's contract with Roadrunner came to an end and they decided to self-release their next album, signing distribution deals with Nuclear Blast in the U.
Their sixth album, Hydra , was slated for release in February and saw them branching out into a number of new and unexpected styles, as symbolized by the titular, many-headed mythical beast.
AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. She also co-wrote and provided the vocals for the track "In and Out of Love" from Armin van Buuren's album Imagine.
She also supplied some vocals for the track "No Compliance" on Delain's album Lucidity, as well as working with the band Voyage on the track "Frozen" not to be confused with Within Temptation's track of the same name. They currently live near Hilversum, Netherlands. On February 22, , den Adel announced that she was pregnant with her second child. Robin Aiden Westerholt, whose birth was announced on the band's official website on June 1, Going by the name of Aiden, he was born prematurely at 32 weeks and 6 days.
On November 26, , den Adel announced that she was expecting another child which, due to complications with her previous pregnancies, led to the rescheduling of the band's tour dates, which were postponed from Spring to Autumn.
The birth of her son, Logan Arwin, was announced on March 21, Within Temptation Wiki Explore. DVDs Black Symphony. Music is essential to life, so being relevant to people is the only aim we have. When I was younger my grandparents died, and then as you get older more people leave you. The problems began when my father started getting ill. I feel overwhelmed by it all. Only then can I make music. Did the band come close to breaking up?
Eventually, it was that uncertainty about the future that enabled me to explore the emotions I was having. Everyone was having trouble coming up with new music. Of course, we wanted to continue. Music and this band is my passion, but I realised that we had to change the balance.
It also helped to realise that there were a lot of new things happening in music, and not just within our scene, so we took inspiration from those sources, too. My heart and roots are in metal and rock, but I like all kinds of music. The challenge was to interpret something that might be happening in pop into our own genre. How important was your solo project My Indigo in getting things moving again? It made me look at music in different ways and get creative again.
A lot of what I learned helped when it came to Resist. The song Firelight was originally written for My Indigo, for example, but we roughened it up a bit and it ended up on Resist, so it was a sort of bridge between the two.
Writing rock music again came naturally afterwards, and that was a huge relief. Resist brought new sounds and themes to the table. Is it a one-off or the start of a new era? The album was inspired by the way we live today, with everything done on the internet and the way that takes away our privacy.
There are not enough laws to protect our privacy. Back in the Second World War people would burn archives, for example, to not give away the places that Jewish people were living.
But now all that information would be available digitally. We turn away from the ways in which data about us and our lives is being stored and used. Does it worry you that your children were born into a time where this seems normal? When I was young I had to go outside and talk to people and make friends that way. How do you keep your voice in good nick on long tours? In fact, being on tour itself helps you to maintain your vocal chords.
The more you do it, the smoother it gets. You just need to remember your warming up time. I drink a lot of ginger tea, too, which helps me out, but really, practice is everything.
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