Enter

Enter is the debut on which WITHIN TEMPTATION combined heavily sinking guitar, ethereal keyboards and Sharon den Adel’s clear singing. The contrast of low growls and a pure voice gives the songs a tragic depth. It is the starting point on which the Dutch band showed its dark, fantastical worldview to the world. On “Restless,” “Enter” and “Deep Within,” rather than the later symphonic grandeur, the darkness derived from gothic/doom is strong. Songs like “Pearls of Light” and “Candles” breathe an early, rough appeal too. A “beauty and the beast” style woven by Robert Westerholt’s death voice and Sharon’s soprano is a major feature of this period. It is an important starting point on which they began to make their own world between quiet and weight.