The Unforgiving

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WTofficial (20 December 2011). "New Music Video: Fire And Ice". Within Temptation . Retrieved 28 December 2012. I apologise for the very low rating, but I truly feel extremely disappointed with this album. This is a totally unforgiving release from all perspectives! The band's previous release "The Heart Of Everything" was also a step down, when compared to their masterpieces "Mother Earth" and "The Silent Force", but it still contained some very good songs, amazing vocals and preserved the band's sound/identity. This album is just disappointing from all perspectives. A shame... After an amazing LP and a stunning live album, Within Temptation return with "The Unforgiving" and unfortunately I am having a hard time forgiving some of the questionable changes (mistakes) the band has made to their sound since "The Heart of Everything".

April 2011/7502/ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 August 2016. Following the formation of the initial ideas, O'Connell completed the rest of the story with additional suggestions from the band. For example, Sinéad was initially a South American woman named Maya, but, as the music to " Sinéad" had already been completed, Sharon requested that the name and nationality be changed. [4] While shooting the three short films and music videos, Mother Maiden (" Faster"), Sinéad and Triplets ("Shot in the Dark"), the band and director (Joeri Holsheimer) came up with several other ideas, among them which song would connect to which story. The band's decision to shoot three short films was mostly to avoid the restrictions imposed on music videos, as Sharon explained: [4] we wanted to put all the money into the movies. You have a budget and then you have to make choices and, to be honest, MTV and everything, it is not so big anymore. And when you make videos, they always say "you can't use blood, you can't use guns, you can't use..." and we wanted to use everything: blood, guns... everything!" As part of transmedia project [ edit ]

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Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Within Temptation; 'The Unforgiving ')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie . Retrieved 10 December 2022. Austriancharts.at – Within Temptation – The Unforgiving" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 August 2016. Within Temptation" still knows how to make it dramatic and theatrical, the intro to "Faster" sounds like a song on a preview for an action movie, and the intro to "Murder" sounds like a song that would be on a preview for a thriller movie. Even in Sinead" the one song on this album that sounds like it would be played at a dance party has a symphonic theatrical incline that makes you feel like that you're still listening to "Within Temptation" no matter how different it is. April 2011/40/ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 25 October 2018.

We told him what kind of movies we liked, what kind of books we read, and he thought about it and he came up with a basic idea, like 2 or 3 lines. The story is about people who have done bad things. Not because they are bad, but because they made bad decisions." Steffen Hung. "Greek charts portal". greekcharts.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 December 2012. What happened was that we wanted to write lyrics for a movie. We were searching for a good movie with a good story and everybody had different release dates. If something goes wrong, a movie can very easily be postponed for a year, and we couldn't take the chance to have to wait for that, otherwise we would have had to postpone our album as well. So we decided to take the matter in our own hands." Ultratop.be – Within Temptation – The Unforgiving" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 August 2016. The sound quality is superb. Everything seems to be mixed well together. This band was actually a recommendation from my female metalhead friend of mine. I didn't like the album initially because I didn't think it was heavy enough. Then I brought down my expectations and took it for however it is. It's a great "chill-to" album. The music is great and just hard enough to make it metal but not really that heavy. The main focus seems to be the voice. The acoustic guitars too are fantastic. Everything seems to fit together on here. Some songs are heavy but the main focus for them are epic songs.

The final short film, Triplets, was released on 1 September 2011. [25] Its accompanying music video "Shot In the Dark" was officially released on 4 October. Within Temptation: The Unforgiving" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 17 August 2016. On tour". Within Temptation. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012 . Retrieved 28 December 2012.

In searching for a new concept, they approached the writer of The Chronicles of Spellborn comics, who introduced the band to Steven O'Connell. However, upon his first meeting with the band, he failed to impress them with ideas involving zombies and fantasy, while they were hoping for a more mature approach rather than something unclear and superficial. [4] Sharon explained that, in trying to describe to O'Connell what they were looking for, [4] I always knew and felt that Within Temptation were a creative and promising band with some good and innovating ideas. Even though I don't adore any of their albums, I think that every output they have released has a special and unique flow and a couple of addicting, inspiring and catchy songs. Now the band decided to work on a conceptual album based on a comic book. The interesting artwork, the great booklet and several well done short films complete the ambitious musical project and are really promising. A video for "Where Is the Edge" was released on 15 December 2010, along with footage from the upcoming film Me and Mr Jones on Natalee Island. [13] The band also announced that the album would be released alongside a comic book series with the same name, forming a story surrounding the main protagonist, Sinéad. [5] Members of Within Temptation giving an acoustic performance at Q Music studios Within Temptation release "Sinead", second short film". 21 March 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011 . Retrieved 22 March 2011.

On 3 February 2011, the first English review of the album was published by a freelance journalist online via last.fm and his blog. [17] [18] Still in February, members of Within Temptation were in Paris to promote their new album in France. A first French interview with Sharon Den Adel was published on Metal-Ways.com (in English). [4] This album is spectacular. I understand that long time fans are a bit put off by what is apparently a departure from their usual sound, but they departed to somewhere far better, like someone moving out of Detroit. You can hardly blame them. It's just that with watershed albums, which The Unforgiving surely is, you always end up with two camps of fans. There's the How Dare You Change crowd of existing fans who like what the band did on day 1 and just want them to do that forever, and there's the As Long As It's Good fans who just like the music and don't particularly care if it stylistically matches any previous output. I have been on both sides with one band or another, so I know how it goes.

There is a certain malleability to metal, appropriate primarily since many metal substances carry this trait in a material sense, but often taken for granted and often times dismissed as being too heavily bent towards eclectic influences. But regardless of dueling orthodoxies, it is pretty well established that the limits of the genre are drawn less by any conventional wisdom, but more so by those in the mind of the creator. Within Temptation sought to expand their own boundaries while walking a clear tightrope musically, trying to balance a fairly different direction with the symphonic underpinnings of their established sound.

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a b Prato, Greg (25 March 2011). "Allmusic review- 'The Unforgiving' ". AllMusic . Retrieved 25 March 2011. Australiancharts.com – Within Temptation – The Unforgiving". Hung Medien. Retrieved 17 August 2016. The Unforgiving at Roadrunner Records Albums of the century". Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Overall, not an awful album and certainly completely listenable and even brilliant at times, but this is far from essential and is quite unmemorable, generic, and definitely not new..