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| The Heart of Everything | 
 enlarge | Artist: Within Temptation
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $9.11
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 1335
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 180212
UPC: 016861802127
EAN: 0016861802127
ASIN: B000ROALIU
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 heavy metal + syphony = awesome September 1, 2008
Whithin Temptation has an interesting style of music which is heavy metal with symphonic sounds as well as a great female vocalist. If you like Evanescence, you'll love Within Temptation. My favorite song on this album is "Our Solemn Hour".
The Howling made me a fan overnight! September 23, 2008
Outstanding! I'm a newbie to this genre of music, but in the short time I've been into it I've been exposed to Within Temptation, Evanescence, Nightwish, Epica, and several others, and Within Temptation is my favorite of them all.
My background is guitar shred music, jazz, and classical. While in the past I've enjoyed the poorly labeled neo-classical shred genre, which is a sad misnomer of the term neo-classical, it was inevitable I'd outgrow it when every other artist out there offered too little substance once I actually did start listening to "real" classical music. In the end, I liked the gothic sound but was put off by the too often poor thematic development and harmonic motion that just became too predictable and derivative of one another.
I wouldn't have guessed that 15 years later, taking that genre of music and making the guitars heavier, pronouncing the string ensemble textures a little more, enlisting a choir in the background, and fronting the band with a beautiful soprano whose tone is silky smooth yet can be assertive on demand and having her sing themes that hook and haunt you would be the way to revive that neo-classical stuff into what it should have been in the first place.
I've become a very big fan of WT virtually overnight, and this release is a great one. It certainly offers nothing new, but it solidifies WT's place as the chief artist in the genre.
 BEWARE: More rock than metal November 15, 2008
I bought this album with much enthusiasm, and yet I found nothing but pop-friendly rock songs reminiscent of Evanescence.
Now don't get me wrong, Evanescence is a great band, and this is a good album, but what happened to the old Within Temptation? Their first album was their best one in my opinion. Even though it saddened me to see them take a new direction in their next albums, at least it was still unique. In contrast, this album sounds like Celine Dion with guitars in the background. It still sounds good, but I personally like metal more than rock.
If you like female-fronted rock bands then by all means buy this album, you will not be disappointed. However, if you're more into Gothic Metal I recommend you buy Within Temptation's first album "Enter", it's more melancholic and poetic in my opinion. You may also want to check out other bands such as Theatre of Tragedy (their first three albums), Tristania, Sirenia (first two albums), The Sins of Thy Beloved, and Penumbra.
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