"SHARON DEN ADEL" Mother Earth & Ice Queen

  

ROCK & CREATIVITY

Mother Earth Overture & Ice Queen :

"SHARON DEN ADEL"

BEAUTY & SYMPHONIC METAL WITH THE FRONTWOMAN OF WITHIN TEMPTATION

Sharon Janny den Adel  is a Dutch singer, songwriter and fashion designer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. "We consider ourselves more a symphonic rock band ... in my opinion, we are no gothic band" Sharon says.

"Ice Queen" is a song by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. It was released in June 2001 as the second single from their second studio album Mother Earth. The song was the band's commercial breakthrough, and it remains one of the band's most successful songs to date in Europe. WATCH NOW THIS AMAZING PERMORMANCE BY  SHARON DEN ADEL. . .

Sharon den Adel "Mother Earth Overture & Ice Queen" at Night of the Proms (Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009).

  Like many of Within Temptation's songs, the lyrics of Ice Queen take their inspiration from nature. "It's a song about nature", said vocalist Sharon den Adel, in an interview with Dennis Weening on Westpop. "And how things go in nature". Guitarist Robert Westerholt further added that "it's about winter".


Along with the singles "Mother Earth," "Angels," and "Stand My Ground", "Ice Queen" has become one of the band's signature songs and is played as ending song on the setlist on almost every concert, except for some shows of The Unforgiving Tour onwards, where they started to end with the songs "Mother Earth" or "Stairway to the Skies".



SHARON DEN ADEL
 

Sharon Janny den Adel  is a Dutch singer, songwriter and fashion designer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. She has been a performing musician since the age of 14, and was a founding member of Within Temptation, along with Robert Westerholt, in 1996.


Genres:    Symphonic metal symphonic rock 







WITHIN TEMPTATION
 

Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1995 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. They have always been classified by critics as gothic metal, although the "gothic" influence varies with each album. Their most prominent and well-known sound is described as symphonic metal, although their earlier material, such as debut album Enter, was mostly gothic metal. Enter even had a hint of doom metal. In an interview, Den Adel said they fell into a symphonic rock genre with various influences. In a later interview with Dutch music platform 3VOOR12, den Adel stated that "we consider ourselves more a symphonic rock band ... in my opinion, we are no gothic band".

Background information
Origin     Waddinxveen, Netherlands
Genres        Symphonic metal alternative metal celtic metal (early) gothic metal
Years active     1995–present
Labels         BMG Nuclear Blast
Associated acts         Delain The Gathering
Website     https://www.within-temptation.com

"Ice Queen" is a song by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. It was released in June 2001 as the second single from their second studio album Mother Earth. The song was the band's commercial breakthrough, and it remains one of the band's most successful songs to date in Europe.

 

WITHIN TEMPTATION LYRICS
"Ice Queen"
 

When leaves have fallen
And skies turned into grey.
The night keeps on closing in on the day
A nightingale sings his song of farewell
You better hide for her freezing hell

On cold wings she's coming
You better keep moving
For warmth, you'll be longing
Come on just feel it
Don't you see it?
You better believe it.

When she embraces
Your heart turns to stone
She comes at night when you are all alone
And when she whispers
Your blood shall run cold
You better hide before she finds you

Whenever she is raging
She takes all life away
Haven't you seen?
Haven't you seen?
The ruins of our world

She covers the earth with a breathtaking cloak
The sun awakes and melts it away
The world now opens its eyes and sees
The dawning of a new day

Whenever she is raging
She takes all life away
Haven't you seen?
Haven't you seen?
The ruins of our world 

Single by Within Temptation
from the album Mother Earth
Writer(s)     Robert Westerholt, Sharon den Adel
B-side     "Mother Earth" "World of Make Believe" "Caged" "Believer"
Released     June 2001
Format     CD single,
DigitalDownload
Recorded     2000
Length     5:20 (Album Version)
3:50 (Radio Version)
Label     DSFA Records,
GUN Records (re-releases)

SOURCE:  Ice Queen (song), Sharon den Adel, Within Temptation by WIKIPEDIA (CC BY SA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Queen_(song)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_den_Adel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Temptation



VIDEO: Sharon den Adel "Mother Earth Overture & Ice Queen" at Night of the Proms (Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009).
 






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