Hydra

Hydra is a work on which WITHIN TEMPTATION took varied voices and different textures into a large symphonic-rock frame. Within the wide space drawn by piano and strings, the vocals use strength and delicacy differently, making a different drama for each song. Welcoming many guests, it is a record that showed unprecedented diversity. On “Paradise (What About Us?),” “Dangerous” and “And We Run,” distinctive guests such as Nightwish’s Tarja Turunen, Killswitch Engage’s Howard Jones and the rapper Xzibit take part. Songs like “Silver Moonlight” and “Covered by Roses” breathe the band’s full playing too. Keeping the largeness of scale, they greatly widened the range of arrangement. It is an ambitious record that shows the band’s expressiveness in a multifaceted way.