Bleed Out

Bleed Out is a work on which WITHIN TEMPTATION layered the weight of modern metal and electronic tension onto their symphonic beauty. Sharon den Adel’s clear voice is not buried even over thick guitar and heavy beats, but rather brings out the songs’ pain and will. It is a powerful record charged with anger at social injustice. On “We Go to War,” “Bleed Out” and “Entertain You,” the choruses are large, the riffs low and the rhythm hard. Through that contrast, grandeur and anger, delicacy and strength coexist. Songs like “Ritual,” “Don't Pray for Me” and “Unbroken” breathe the band’s full playing too. Each song is inspired by real events, such as the situations in Ukraine and Iran. It is a record that updated the worldview the band has built into heavier, more direct words.