รายชื่อเพลง
1. The Howling 05:33
2. What Have You Done 05:13
3. Frozen 04:28
4. Our Solemn Hour 05:35
5. The Heart of Everything 04:51
6. Hand of Sorrow 04:17
7. The Cross 05:36
8. Final Destination 04:51
9. All I Need 04:43
10. The Truth Beneath the Rose 07:05
11. Forgiven 04:54
แนะนำเพลง What Have You Done
และเพลง Our Solemn Hour
สุดท้ายมาดู review อัลบั้มนี้ของคุณ Swarm ครับ
Ok, so it's not Mother Earth, and it's certainly not Enter. Within Temptation aren't quite the gothic, atmospheric doomsters they used to be. Nevertheless, this is another high quality album from the band, and a relief after the lacklustre Silent Force.
The most striking thing about this album is the sheer power of it. For the first time the band have managed to get the balance just right between Sharon Den Adel's brilliant vocals, the simple but evocative guitars, and the orchestral parts. Opener "The Howling" is probably the best example of this in action: listening to it is like being hit by a hurricane of sound. The guitars actually sound like they're from a *heavy* metal band rather than lurking around somewhere in the background playing in a metal style but very quietly, whilst the orchestra is still completely audible but playing second fiddle to the rock instruments. Sharon's voice meanwhile is stunning, and possible more evil sounding than it's ever been before.
Indeed, the other surprising feature of this album other than the heavier guitars are Sharon's vocals. She's as capable as ever, but seems to have experimented more with her range and technique, with good effect particularly on "Our Solemn Hour" and the title track. The rest of their band seem to have been working on their skills too, as there's even the odd guitar solo around. As always with Within Temptation though, it's the bands compositional skills that make the songs great rather than any kind of technical virtuosity.
Talking of composition, the band seem to have started writing longer songs again - they're certainly more accessible than they used to be, but since on average they tend to be at least five minute long they're still hardly radio friendly! Generally this tends to work in their favour, as each piece is a mini-epic in its own right rather than your typical verse-chorus-verse piece. In fact if anything "The Truth Beneath The Rose" feels like it's been cut somewhat short even at over seven minutes.
Of course, it's not perfect. The guest singer on "What Have You Done" really can be that annoying, and as such it's a pretty poor choice for first single and second song on the album. Things sag a little in the middle as there's a few songs in a row which sound fairly similar. On the whole though this is a great album, and in retrospect will probably one of the best of 2007.
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