"Enter "or" input ", is the first album of Dutch band Within Temptation (let me interject that the" input "is the perfect name for her debut band music album!). CD, published in 1997 by record label DSFA Records, and ten years later resumed by the label Season of Mist, has eight songs each, belonging to the species of gothic metal and doom metal.
"Enter" is the only longplay WT, where there is a distinctive growl, which warcząco-roaring vocals Robert Westerholt (s growl is heard even on the EP "The Dance." EP is a kind of plate with a small number of songs, which can be determined using the expression "no longer single but not LP). Besides, the CD features present at all discs singing Within Temptation Sharon den Adel. And I must admit that Sharon has a very beautiful, tall, operatic voice and acting ability for singing in an emotional, dramatic, theatrical and thrilling. TUE
is one my favorite bands - listening to him for 14 years of age and have time to learn the all the record. As an experienced student Withinów, I can say that the band has had many musical experiments: the artists were interested in the sounds of heavy and light, depression and cheerful, symphony and folk, lame, and modest, quiet and noisy, and design from the classic film music. Although I like all discs Within Temptation, I see a worrying trend, namely that the work of the group is - the disc to disc - getting weaker.
Withini use something like a "principle of the inverted pyramid." The "principle of the inverted pyramid" comes from prasoznawstwa and is rigid, strict rules for the drafting of press releases. The information will be most valuable for beginning of the text in the middle of average importance, and the least important at the end. A similar phenomenon can be seen in the music of the band Within Temptation: the most beautiful, most artistic CD was issued by him in the beginning, later appeared in several weaker discs, and now the work of the group is clearly commercial, and addressed to a wide audience.
Since the first WT is the best album "Enter", I decided to recommend it to their readers. Feel free to read descriptions of each of the songs from this CD. As already mentioned, these songs is eight, and their sound has the characteristics of gothic metal and doom metal.
"Restless" - the song which climate can be described as "moderate concern". The work begins with restless and intriguing sounds of the piano, which attract the attention of the recipient and enter it in the right mood. These sounds play an important role throughout the composition. It is very important in the song is also a vocalist Sharon den Adel, who - including his sonorous, trembling, operatic voice - expresses feelings similar to those created by music.
song "Restless" has a very moving chorus, in which the singing of Sharon goes into poignant howl (indeed, I love the way this woman sings the words "through" and "you"!). The real spectacle of vocal and acting abilities den Adel is also a section with the words "Laj, laj, laj ...." WT singer's voice is then very sweetly and touchingly innocent.
"Enter" - very different from the song "Restless." It begins with expressive sounds of door opening, followed by Robert Westerholt says "Welcome to my home" or "Welcome to my home." Moments later, you hear heavy guitars, and Robert growlowy roaring high, symphony, mysterious sounds of keyboard instrument. In the end begins Westerholt melorecytować lyrics beginning with the words "The gates of time have been opened. Now the chains are broken. An ancient force unleashed again "(free translation).
After passage performed by the man's time on the piece sung by a woman. Sharon den Adel beautiful and highly vocalizes the vowel "u" \u200b\u200band executes the remainder of Cell. As you can see, the song "Enter" singers sing alternately - once you hear it, and once it. Besides, the song is constantly interwoven with quieter moments louder. Alternately, there are also endowed with vocal fragments and devoid of the human voice.
"Pearls of Light" - one of the most beautiful and most moving songs I know. It is so beautiful, filled with sweetness, delicacy, tenderness, sadness and pain that it's hard to describe. The song starts with its beautiful, almost stylized sounds fabulous in Celtic music, then there is an incredibly moving - and moving acquired - Vocals Sharon den Adel.
Another element that occurs in the work of "Pearls of Light", is heavy, gloomy, depressing, but absolutely not aggressive electric guitar. When singer Sharon sing the chorus ("Carried away by the truculence of my world ..."), her voice sounds incredibly dramatic, at times conformed to the crying and howling in despair. This applies particularly to the words "where I" - two monosyllabic words, in which the artist is able to conclude a lot of strong, overwhelming, providing the recipient's emotions.
whole composition "Pearls ..." is dramatic, but its finale is already the top drama. Reigning in the instruments - guitar, drums and keyboards - literally tear a man's heart. That can not describe, you have to hear and experience it for yourself. If someone asked me what it is cathartic odpowiedziałabym that it is precisely this feeling that embraces the human interior end (listened from the beginning), the song "Pearls of Light."
"Deep Within" - track who is veritable antidote to the previously discussed "Pearls ...." While the previous composition was soft, sweet, feminine and tearful, it is sharp, dark, masculine and menacing. As you can guess, it carries in its entirety by Robert Westerholt, owner terrible, almost "wilkołaczego" growlu. In the song "Deep Within", in addition to warcząco-roaring vocals Robert, very important is grim, as if the "tinkling" electric guitar. It is possible that it plays the same Westerholt, because he is not only a vocalist but also a guitarist.
"Gatekeeper" - very epic song, which sounds and words seem to tell a story, an otherwise tragic and chilling. At the beginning of the song is heard the mysterious, high and low tones, complemented by the ominous rumble of an owl. It makes the calls, imagine that the recipient of the night and open space, or parts of the world presented in the story. In the remainder of the work going on pathetic, though devoid of keyboard instrument sounds fun. Then we
keyboardowo-piece drum and guitar and keyboardowo-drum both filled with fear and despair. In the end music is illustrative: it sounds imitates the sound of beating or chopping sword. Robert Westerholt melorecytować begins the text by which the lyric speaks of the arrival of some evil, bloodthirsty people who "came to take away our lives" (translation my own).
Soon speaks Sharon den Adel, singer already in the past tense: "One after another they died. The massacre, which took all night. They had no chance, there was no fight. You can not kill that which has already been killed. Dead "(trans. own). The singer, but rather her character, begins to howl horribly, and violently in despair, while Robert melorecytuje end of story. Then there's finale and the song comes to an end. I must admit that the "Gatekeeper" reminds me of the OUN-UPA crimes committed against Poles during the Second World War.
"Grace" - composition of very sharp, filled with extreme emotions such as fear, despair, anger and grief to another person. While the previous song was about people killed during the massacre, it appears that the tragedy of people staying in captivity. Lyrics probably talking about torture. Sharon sings that: "Cold are the bones of your soldiers, miss the home, their little paradise. I do not feel redemption on their side. (...) Feel these hands, tightness, cold, shivering. Do you hear these words? Can you feel the wound? I'll never help. Cold are thy souls. I feel resentment. They feel betrayed, hated the cold. I do not feel redemption on their part "(translation my own).
When this song expresses the futile plea for mercy, comes to an end, the listener feels completely "zdemotywowany. Even more so, that the last words sung by the singer sounds very pathetic and painfully. Especially its final "through", like yelp of pain and despair. The whole song "Grace" reminds me of a scene from the third part of "Forefathers" by Adam Mickiewicz, in which Rollisonowa talks with Senator.
"Blooded" - instrumental track, similar to the "Gatekeeper." What is interesting in it, it sounds that mimic the clatter of horses' hooves. The rest is not worth describing, as most of the solutions proposed in the "Blooded" a replay of that described a few paragraphs earlier song about the massacre. It is a pity that the composition do not contain words. I think that they would increase significantly its artistic value.
"Candles" - most peaceful track from the whole album, where you can relax after the impressions caused by the earlier compositions. Work Fri "Candles" begin to roar and whistle of the wind, after which the sounds are soft, a bit of Celtic music. This quiet, relaxing entry takes quite a long time, so you can close your eyes and listen at him. As for the vocals Sharon den Adel, then it comes as if from afar - not so prominently as in other pieces from the album "Enter."
After about 2 minutes and 20 seconds, says the piano, and 20 seconds later - the heavy guitar, a song which adds drama. Sharon vocalizes quite anxious few vowels, and then sing alternately with Robert Westerholt. Composition, and thus: the whole CD ends with a clearly and definitively.
I hope that my text will encourage readers to read the first album of Dutch band Within Temptation. And if Readers already familiar with it, then I trust that my descriptions przypadną they like. Album "Enter" and EP "The Dance" is the only publisher WT, which contain such a profound and non-song. On the following discs, from "Mother Earth", the music the band will sound more "pop." As I have written, this negative trend, tormenting a group of Within Temptation, resembles the well-known prasoznawstwa "the principle of the inverted pyramid."
Natalia Julia Smith, 1924-1925
May 2011
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