Mr Peabody
10-18-2007, 08:16 PM
I just got my copy of The Heart of Everything and wow! what a difference. My first Within Temptation, Sins of Thy Beloved, was a bit disappointing. The engineering or production was bad. The instruments were all unbalanced and overall not so good sound. The Heart of Everything is a refined, focused and much more commercial sounding album. Sharon Den Adel is out front on vocals, no growling male vocals, and she delivers an excellent performance. The songs are some what formulated, they've been kept in check so the solos and Prog filler is limited. With that being said what the songs do have are flavors of the bands roots, catchy hooks and melodies which all make for very likeable songs. There are even a couple nice ballads. Did I mention yet that Sharon can really sing? Some one molded them to go after the Evanescence audience and I'm sure there will be comparisons but WT does so much better on this album. Evanescence may be the first group the corporate pigs saw fit to give a break but aren't the best representative of the genre by a long shot. Actually they quite pale in comparison to WT and masters like Nightwish or Tristania.
But back to the point of the reason I posted, if you don't have a problem with a more commercial sound The Heart of Everything really is an excellent album. It will be in my listening stack for some time. I hope the album gets them some recognition. There is some enhancements on the disc I haven't checked out yet. I have to put the disc in my computer. It's probably a video.
But back to the point of the reason I posted, if you don't have a problem with a more commercial sound The Heart of Everything really is an excellent album. It will be in my listening stack for some time. I hope the album gets them some recognition. There is some enhancements on the disc I haven't checked out yet. I have to put the disc in my computer. It's probably a video.