The band rounded out 1997 by embarking on their first international tour, of Germany and Austria. The album was well received and the band embarked on a four gig tour across the country, after which they performed at the Dynamo Open Air festival in Eindhoven. They were offered a recording contract and signed to DSFA Records later that year, beginning work on their first album.Įnter and first national tour (1997–1999) Įnter, the debut album, was released in 1997. The Enter demo contained some songs that would later be released in their first album. However, they renamed themselves "Within Temptation", before they started recording their demo, Enter. Westerholt then joined with den Adel in forming a doom metal band called, "The Portal", including former The Circle band members Jeroen van Veen on bass guitar and Michiel Papenhove on guitar, as well as Martijn Westerholt on the keyboard and Dennis Leeflang on drums (later replaced by Ivar de Graaf). Soon after that release the band broke up. The Circle renamed themselves Voyage and released an album called Embrace, including a song featuring den Adel. Long-term partners Robert Westerholt (guitar) and Sharon den Adel (vocals) began the band in 1996, after Westerholt left his previous band, The Circle.
Their sixth studio album, Hydra, was released in early 2014 in Japan, Europe, and the United States. The album saw the band increasingly venturing on new musical territories outside symphonic metal.
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The band's fifth studio album, The Unforgiving, was released in March 2011 and was one part of a transmedia effort, alongside both a comic book series and a series of short films that together encompass a story. This was followed in 2009 by An Acoustic Night at the Theatre, another live album, this time with acoustic renditions of the songs. In 2008, they released Black Symphony, a live album recorded with the Metropole Orchestra. Their next albums The Silent Force (2004) and The Heart of Everything (2007) debuted at No. This was followed by the band winning the Conamus Exportprijs, a Dutch music award, four years in a row, and a fifth in 2016. It was not until 2001 that they became known to the general public, with the single " Ice Queen" from their second album Mother Earth, which reached No. Īfter the release of their debut album Enter in 1997, the band became prominent in the Dutch underground scene. In my opinion, we are not a gothic band but we have gothic elements". In a later interview with Dutch music platform 3VOOR12, den Adel stated that "We consider ourselves more an atmospheric melodic symphonic metal/rock band. In an interview, den Adel said they fell into a symphonic rock genre with various influences. Their most prominent and well-known sound is described as symphonic metal, although their earlier material, such as debut album Enter, was mostly gothic metal, with Enter also having a hint of doom metal. They have been classified by critics as gothic metal and symphonic metal, although each album contains other influences outside these genres. Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt.