Thanks for checking this out. Yes, they are based in symphonic metal, but they move around in styles. They are Dutch, formed in 1996, same year as Nightwish, by Sharon and her partner, guitarist Robert Westerholt. This song is from their 4th album ,The Heart of Everything in 2007. Their 8th album was just released Oct 20. Sharon is mostly self taught, she has a degree in fashion design, which she uses for a lot of her stage outfits. For more: Ice Queen was their commercial breakthrough song. Mother Earth, Shot in the Dark, Faster, Stand My Ground, are older. Newer songs: Don't Pray For Me, The Purge, and Ritual. They have done a bunch of collabs as well, including Paradise (What About Us) with Tarja, and The Reckoning with Jacoby Shaddix(Papa Roach)
Dangerous, Paradise (What About Us?), and A Demon's Fate are some of my personal favs. A Demon's Fate doesn't have an official video unfortunately, but there are tons of fan made ones. What Have You Done, Iron, and Let Us Burn are also good ones, imo.
Within Temptation is phenomenal band and Sharon's voice is ethereal ja pure, my favourite singer! They have so so so many great songs worth of checking out ❤️ the rabbit hole is deeeep and fantastic to explore I promise you!😊 their style has evolved more heavier direction in the last few years and they don't hesitate to address hard topics in their songs. I highly suggest you to check out at least these tracks: - Jillian (from Silent Force album 2004) - Angels (from Silent Force album 2004) - Hand of sorrow (from the Heart of Everything album 2007) - What about us ft. Tarja Turunen (2014) - Supernova (2019) - The Reckoning (2019) - Purge (2022) - Bleed Out (2023) - Ritual (2023) - Cyanide Love (2023) - Unbroken (2023) - Memories (ballad) - Stairway to the skies (ballad) - Forgiven (ballad) - The Swan song (ballad) ETC ❤️❤️
This bands are legends of symphonic metal. Came around the same time as Nightwish. New album is very interesting but I suggest keep digging the classic songs. React to Angels next.
Hi there! Just here to inform you that Sharon was ill with high fevers caused by larynghitis. She was only able to perform after an antibiotics cure. So her voice quality was certainly a bit hampered.
Hi Guys. Sharon is awesome. She's Dutch and self taught and also she went to design school. Her lower register is great also. She's sick here but her voice does go higher. Anneke van Giersbergen does a duet with Sharon called Somewhere and Sharon does one with Tarja called Paradise
I couldn’t help but notice the timing of this release. It’s Remembrance Day here in Canada 🇨🇦 and I believe it’s known as Veteran’s Day in the States. The title of this is “One Solemn Hour” and it starts out as a speech/ black & white clips from the war…that can’t just be coincidence I think.
I watched Black Symphony so many times and it's still the best. I've been to their concerts I've seen Nightwish live and honestly the atmosphere and crowd energy was the best on WT shows. Definitelly check out some more :)
Nice reaction, I thought you were gonna hate it. The sound on the video has the typical compressed mp3 sound everythig on TH-cam has. When you play the Blu-ray or CD of this concert and pump it through a good hi-fi system and crank it up to 11 it sounds absolutely phenomenal.
I'm pretty much with you on this, except that to me it was probably an 8. As you said, the sound itself is big, and it really SHOULD just pull you right in. However, I couldn't connect with it very much. For one thing, I really couldn't understand her words. I didn't even try to turn on captions, because if I can't hear and understand the words without the captions, I'm really not going to "get into" it, really. There are exceptions. This wasn't one of them. Again, I had no problem with the quality of her voice, but the rest of it just kind of seemed to swallow her, without even a really good "show." I checked to see if Dan Vasc had done a cover of this particular song, but he hasn't. He has, however, done three covers of "Within Temptation's" music. My favorite one is "All I Need." It is absolutely amazing. th-cam.com/video/7UQhtMmfF7Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6PGujIQ4toJvzegr
You said “Crowd singing is the best.” I wonder if you’ve seen Lara Fabian be sung to by an entire crowd in Paris in 2001. The look on her face when the crowd broke out into the song “Je T’aime” is priceless. I saw it yesterday on a channel called MB Music. You’ll love everything about it, I guarantee it.😊✨ Thought I’d mention that Dan Vasc has covers of both Within Temptation (4 songs) and Nightwish (5 songs). We’re still waiting on Ghost Love Score…he had released a teaser on IG that he was working on and it was the Ghost Love Score drumbeat but I think it may be the long instrumental interlude that may be causing him to not release that one. Of the 4 “Within Temptation” covers, the one that is most worthy of your reaction is “All I Need.” ⭐️ “Faster” is somewhat popular but personally I find it too repetitive. “Iron” is alright. “Stand my Ground” is rather “meh”. I’m a big fan of Dan Vasc, but you have to keep in mind that there was a 2 or 3 year period just after his Dad died when he really decided to just go for it 100 percent on TH-cam, no Plan B. Dan was cranking out more than a video a week (around 65 videos a year for 2 years in a row if I counted correctly. I may have that wrong because he also does duets where the song only appears on the other person’s channel) on a shoestring budget and he was still on a bit of a learning curve, so you don’t see the high quality of the videos that he puts out nowadays. The tradeoff for that quality is far fewer videos. (“Perfect will do”?) This year he has released only 2 on his channel (and 1 on someone else’s) so far. (Hoping for a Christmas one still to come this year.)
Didn't float my boat but not bad.its a six for me the build up at the beginning i thougth she come out all guns blazing more power vocals.always honest with your reactions. 👍
Within Temptation has many better songs like Dangerous, Paradise, Faster, The Reckoning, A Demon's Fate and more. Also the studio versions sound much better, but that's pretty obvious. This one is maybe 5-6/10
Thanks for checking this out.
Yes, they are based in symphonic metal, but they move around in styles. They are Dutch, formed in 1996, same year as Nightwish, by Sharon and her partner, guitarist Robert Westerholt. This song is from their 4th album ,The Heart of Everything in 2007. Their 8th album was just released Oct 20. Sharon is mostly self taught, she has a degree in fashion design, which she uses for a lot of her stage outfits.
For more: Ice Queen was their commercial breakthrough song. Mother Earth, Shot in the Dark, Faster, Stand My Ground, are older. Newer songs: Don't Pray For Me, The Purge, and Ritual. They have done a bunch of collabs as well, including Paradise (What About Us) with Tarja, and The Reckoning with Jacoby Shaddix(Papa Roach)
Thanks Chris. This was a good one.
@@TouchyReactions You're Welcome, glad you enjoyed.
Dangerous, Paradise (What About Us?), and A Demon's Fate are some of my personal favs.
A Demon's Fate doesn't have an official video unfortunately, but there are tons of fan made ones.
What Have You Done, Iron, and Let Us Burn are also good ones, imo.
Within Temptation is phenomenal band and Sharon's voice is ethereal ja pure, my favourite singer! They have so so so many great songs worth of checking out ❤️ the rabbit hole is deeeep and fantastic to explore I promise you!😊 their style has evolved more heavier direction in the last few years and they don't hesitate to address hard topics in their songs.
I highly suggest you to check out at least these tracks:
- Jillian (from Silent Force album 2004)
- Angels (from Silent Force album 2004)
- Hand of sorrow (from the Heart of Everything album 2007)
- What about us ft. Tarja Turunen (2014)
- Supernova (2019)
- The Reckoning (2019)
- Purge (2022)
- Bleed Out (2023)
- Ritual (2023)
- Cyanide Love (2023)
- Unbroken (2023)
- Memories (ballad)
- Stairway to the skies (ballad)
- Forgiven (ballad)
- The Swan song (ballad)
ETC ❤️❤️
Thanks for the help
This bands are legends of symphonic metal. Came around the same time as Nightwish. New album is very interesting but I suggest keep digging the classic songs. React to Angels next.
Hi there! Just here to inform you that Sharon was ill with high fevers caused by larynghitis. She was only able to perform after an antibiotics cure. So her voice quality was certainly a bit hampered.
Oh, okay. Thanks
Hi Guys. Sharon is awesome. She's Dutch and self taught and also she went to design school. Her lower register is great also. She's sick here but her voice does go higher. Anneke van Giersbergen does a duet with Sharon called Somewhere and Sharon does one with Tarja called Paradise
Thanks Christina 😊
I couldn’t help but notice the timing of this release. It’s Remembrance Day here in Canada 🇨🇦 and I believe it’s known as Veteran’s Day in the States. The title of this is “One Solemn Hour” and it starts out as a speech/ black & white clips from the war…that can’t just be coincidence I think.
Oo Within Temptation cool!
I watched Black Symphony so many times and it's still the best. I've been to their concerts I've seen Nightwish live and honestly the atmosphere and crowd energy was the best on WT shows. Definitelly check out some more :)
Thanks
Nice reaction, I thought you were gonna hate it. The sound on the video has the typical compressed mp3 sound everythig on TH-cam has. When you play the Blu-ray or CD of this concert and pump it through a good hi-fi system and crank it up to 11 it sounds absolutely phenomenal.
Thank you. That makes sense.
Great, more plz! They just released a new album:-)
I would recommend "Iron" by them.
You like crowd singing ??? look for Blind Guardian - The Bard's Song & Valhalla - Live at Wacken Open Air 2016
I'm pretty much with you on this, except that to me it was probably an 8. As you said, the sound itself is big, and it really SHOULD just pull you right in. However, I couldn't connect with it very much. For one thing, I really couldn't understand her words. I didn't even try to turn on captions, because if I can't hear and understand the words without the captions, I'm really not going to "get into" it, really. There are exceptions. This wasn't one of them. Again, I had no problem with the quality of her voice, but the rest of it just kind of seemed to swallow her, without even a really good "show."
I checked to see if Dan Vasc had done a cover of this particular song, but he hasn't. He has, however, done three covers of "Within Temptation's" music. My favorite one is "All I Need." It is absolutely amazing. th-cam.com/video/7UQhtMmfF7Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6PGujIQ4toJvzegr
You said “Crowd singing is the best.” I wonder if you’ve seen Lara Fabian be sung to by an entire crowd in Paris in 2001. The look on her face when the crowd broke out into the song “Je T’aime” is priceless. I saw it yesterday on a channel called MB Music. You’ll love everything about it, I guarantee it.😊✨
Thought I’d mention that Dan Vasc has covers of both Within Temptation (4 songs) and Nightwish (5 songs). We’re still waiting on Ghost Love Score…he had released a teaser on IG that he was working on and it was the Ghost Love Score drumbeat but I think it may be the long instrumental interlude that may be causing him to not release that one.
Of the 4 “Within Temptation” covers, the one that is most worthy of your reaction is “All I Need.” ⭐️
“Faster” is somewhat popular but personally I find it too repetitive.
“Iron” is alright. “Stand my Ground” is rather “meh”. I’m a big fan of Dan Vasc, but you have to keep in mind that there was a 2 or 3 year period just after his Dad died when he really decided to just go for it 100 percent on TH-cam, no Plan B. Dan was cranking out more than a video a week (around 65 videos a year for 2 years in a row if I counted correctly. I may have that wrong because he also does duets where the song only appears on the other person’s channel) on a shoestring budget and he was still on a bit of a learning curve, so you don’t see the high quality of the videos that he puts out nowadays. The tradeoff for that quality is far fewer videos. (“Perfect will do”?) This year he has released only 2 on his channel (and 1 on someone else’s) so far. (Hoping for a Christmas one still to come this year.)
Didn't float my boat but not bad.its a six for me the build up at the beginning i thougth she come out all guns blazing more power vocals.always honest with your reactions. 👍
Within Temptation has many better songs like Dangerous, Paradise, Faster, The Reckoning, A Demon's Fate and more. Also the studio versions sound much better, but that's pretty obvious.
This one is maybe 5-6/10
Thanks for the help