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| Mother Earth/Silent Force | 
 enlarge | Artist: Within Temptation
Label: Sony Bmg Europe
Category: Music
List Price: $37.99
Buy New: $18.05
You Save: $19.94 (52%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 32157
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.9
UPC: 886971448726
EAN: 0886971448726
ASIN: B000T7QXPK
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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Two musical masterpieces in one package February 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unless you hate music in general, you'll love these two albums. This package is a bargain, since these cds cost $30 a piece here in the U.S. if you buy them at a music store. If you haven't heard much of Within Temptation, just go to youtube and check out their great videos. These guys are amazing composers. They combine hard rock, metal, classical, choirs, and opera style vocals to bombard your senses with what can be described as an audio orgy. They stack layer after layer of melodies using violins, trumpets, choirs, flutes, harps, and ofcourse guitars. Their singer, Sharon Den Adel, is a freak of nature. The vocal range she posseses violates the known laws of the natural world. Both these albums are amazing, and I cannot recommend them enough. What's more amazing is that Within Temptation isn't the biggest musical act in the world yet.
Incredibly excellent! March 5, 2008
When I first hear "The Silent Force", I thought it was "OK"...then the second time I heard it, I realized that most of it was already embedded in my brain, it is that insidiously catchy! I've been trying to get my own copy for years, but didn't see any reason I should have to pay approx. $30 for it. Now, this package deal comes along and I can get TWO albums for less than the price of "Silent Force" alone! The version of "Mother Earth" that came with mine has bonus material on it (that isn't listed on the back cover). "Silent Force" doesn't have any of the bonus songs on it that are avaialable on other versions, but it DOES have the video for "Stand My Ground" on it. Within Temptation is the band that SHOULD have gotten the recognition that the laughable evanescence got! Sharon's vocals are very airy and delicate, and she sings in a wide range of styles.....even some very Celtic-sounding material can be heard on "Mother Earth". I listen to mostly Black MeTal, but can say without any reservations that "Silent Force" is one of the most absolutely perfect albums I've ever heard(out of thousands)! and "Mother Earth" is a fantastic album as well, including the meltingly beautiful ballad "Our Farewell" WT is not as heavy as Nightwish, but not as pop-ish (and forgettable) as Lacuna Coil. Please,however,do not be influenced by their often ludicrous appearances(they have recently abandoned the practice of putting strange appliances on their faces...not kidding!)! The music is basically classical played in a rather catchy "pop" MeTal style...and as stated before, these songs WILL stick in your head and you won't be able to get rid of them! If you like so-called "gothic" MeTal, H.I.M. or Nightwish or Epica, you will LOVE Within Temptation! And, even if you are a blood-mad Black MeTal fiend like myself that can also appreciate musical beauty, you may want to investigate this band(be aware their first album, "Enter" is much more primitive and not as good, while their latest, "The Heart of Everything" is almost TOO polished sounding, with quite a bit more pop elements than these two reviewed albums).
 Music's great, CD not so much. March 25, 2008
I love just about every song on both these CD's, but the Mother Earth CD will not play in my car CD player or anywhere else but on my computer. I was very disappointed in this as I got them in the mail right as I was leaving to go out of town (driving) but then I couldn't listen to it because every time I'd put it in the CD player it would tell me it was a CD Rom. So I finally had to pull the songs on my computer and burn them to a blank CD. That's an awful lot of work, but the music is so fantastic it was worth it.
Illumination of the Heart of Rock at its Best! August 6, 2008
I can't say that Within Temptation is really just something you call ''Gothic Rock''. It does have that kind of feel at some points within their music, but it's really a lot more than that. There is heartfelt expression in both the lyrics and music of all of their music.
Within Temptation touches down on some of the mysterious aspects of things in a very tasteful, almost hypnotic way that will surely leave you seeking for more from them! It's great music to have at a gathering, or to just have some background music for literature inspiration.
As a long-term fan of Within Temptation, even before they made it big, I'd have to say they are a representation of their very own genre of music that just about anyone can enjoy and appreciate! My personal favorites I'd recommend to listen to would have to be ''Ice Queen'' and ''Never-ending Story'' (no relation to the movie), because both have such in depth, poetic description to what the song is about!
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