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3Within Temptation are a [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] band founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and her partner, guitarist Robert Westerholt. Their music is usually described using two of the following words: [[SymphonicMetal symphonic]], {{goth}}ic, and [[GothicMetal metal]]. Their last two albums debuted at #1 on the Dutch charts.
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5After the release of their first album GothicMetal album ''Enter,'' the band became prominent in the Dutch underground scene. It was not until 2001 that they became known to the general public, with the single "Ice Queen" from the album ''Mother Earth'', which reached #2 on the Dutch charts. Since then, the band won the Conamus Exportprijs four years in a row. Their next two albums ''The Silent Force'' and ''The Heart of Everything'' debuted at #1 on the Dutch charts. In 2008, they released a live DVD and CD, ''Black Symphony'', recorded with the Metropole Orchestra. This collection was followed in 2009 with ''An Acoustic Night at the Theatre.''
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7The band's fifth studio album ''The Unforgiving'', was released in March 2011, alongside both a ComicBook series and a series of short films that together encompass a story. The first single, "Faster," was released on January 21, and the first short film, "Mother Maiden", was released on January 31. The band has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. Around the same time, Robert stopped touring full time to look after his and Sharon's children. Their new guitarist Stefan Helleblad also contributed to their next album "Hydra" in 2014.
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9In 2017, Sharon den Adel announced a side project called Music/MyIndigo, which was born while suffering from WritersBlock writing new material for Within Temptation. The debut album was released on April 20, 2018.
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11They are reminiscent of a variety of bands including but in no way limited to, Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}, Music/{{Epica}}, Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/{{Kamelot}} and Music/LacunaCoil. See also Music/{{Delain}}, formed by Robert Westerholt's brother Martijn after he left the band due to health problems.
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14!!Discography:
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16'''Albums:'''
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18* ''Enter'' (1997)
19* ''Mother Earth'' (2000)
20* ''The Silent Force'' (2004)
21* ''The Heart of Everything'' (2007)
22* ''The Unforgiving'' (2011)
23* ''Hydra'' (2014)
24* ''Resist'' (2019)
25* ''Bleed Out'' (2023)
26'''Extended Plays:'''
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28* ''The Dance'' (1998)
29* ''Running Up That Hill'' (2003)
30* ''The Howling'' (2007)
31* ''Sinead: The Remixes'' (2013)
32* ''Paradise (What About Us?)'' (feat. Music/TarjaTurunen) (2013)
33
34'''Cover Albums:'''
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36* ''The Q Music Sessions'' (2013)
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38'''Live [=DVDs=]:'''
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40* ''Mother Earth Tour'' (2002)
41* ''The Silent Force Tour'' (2005)
42* ''Black Symphony'' (2008)
43* ''An Acoustic Night at the Theatre'' (2009)
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46!!Band Members:
47
48* Sharon den Adel -- Vocals (1996–present)
49* Robert Westerholt -- Rhythm guitar, grunts (Studio only, 2011–present) (1996–present)
50* Jeroen van Veen -- Bass guitar (1996–present)
51* Ruud Jolie -- Lead guitar (2001–present)
52* Martijn Spierenburg -- Keyboards (2001–present)
53* Mike Coolen -- Drums (2011–present)
54* Stefan Helleblad -- Guitar (2011-present)
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56
57!!Tropes Queen:
58
59* AbusiveParents:
60** "Frozen": The father abuses both his [[DomesticAbuse wife and daughter]] in the video.
61** "Triplets": The father apparently molests his son, as evidenced by his hopping into the same bed.
62%% ZCE * AllAbusersAreMale: Both videos for "Frozen" and "Triplets."
63* AfterTheEnd:
64** This seems to be the theme for "Forsaken."
65** The setting of the video for "Paradise (What About Us?)" is a post-nuclear wasteland.
66* AlbumTitleDrop: Occurs in ''Enter'' and ''The Heart of Everything''.
67** Averted on ''Mother Earth''
68** Subverted with ''Resist'' -- the word appears in the second ''Bleed Out'' single "The Purge".
69** Played with on ''Bleed Out'', with the TitleTrack using the line "She bleed'''s''' out".
70* AlwaysWithYou: "Memories."
71* AntiChristmasSong: "Gothic Christmas," an EasterEgg found on the ''Mother Earth Tour'' DVD.
72* AWildRapperAppears: It's a very unusual mix. Symphonic metal and rap sound like an awful combo but "And We Run" [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds makes it work.]]
73* AudienceParticipationSong: "Stand My Ground," "What Have You Done," "Ice Queen." On the tour supporting ''The Unforgiving,'' Sharon also plays repeat after me with the audience during parts of "In the Middle of the Night."
74* BackToFront: Played with in "Memories" -- the video is mostly done going forwards, but the scene where the young Sharon is in a music room (around the second verse) sees a broken chandelier return to the ceiling as well a table reform with a pot plant and candles sitting on top. The chandelier ends up falling back down as Sharon flees the building in the final chorus.
75* BigRockEnding: "Stairway to the Skies," "The Truth Beneath the Rose," and "Tell Me Why."
76* BlatantLies: "Intro" on ''Mother Earth'' is the ''eighth'' track on the album, with the TitleTrack occupying the first spot instead (though Intro is the introduction of "Dark Wings").
77* BloodKnight: "Iron."
78-->Oh damn, the war is coming\
79Oh damn, you feel you want it\
80Oh damn, just bring it on today\
81You can't live without the fire\
82It's the heat that makes you strong
83* BreakTheBeliever: "The Truth Beneath The Rose" is about a Christian fanatic seeing the error of their ways, and which strongly implies that this trope happens. Though because the fanatic continues to talk about forgiveness of sin and redeeming their soul, it arguably falls more along the lines of GodBeforeDogma.
84* BreakTheCutie: "Blue Eyes."
85* BreakupSong: "What Have You Done" is about two lovers who are also mortal enemies.
86* CallBack: The song "The Heart of Everything" has the line: "Stay with me now I'm facing my last solemn hour," a reference to another song "Our Solemn Hour."
87* TheChosenOne: The subject of "Dark Wings." Also a big part of "Hand of Sorrow."
88* ConceptAlbum: ''The Unforgiving''.
89* ClimacticMusic: "Murder" and "A Demon's Fate" from ''The Unforgiving''.
90* ContinuityNod: The man who solicits a streetside girl in "Utopia" is the priest from "Angels". Fridge Horror ensues.
91* CostumePorn: Sharon wears many elaborate dresses in music videos and live concerts. Given she is also a fashion designer, she [[ShownTheirWork shows her work]].
92* TheCoverChangesTheGender: From the Q-Music Sessions: The subject in "Don't You Worry Child" becomes male. Subverted in "Dirty Dancer" where the titular person is still female, but the line: "But she's a ten when she's on top of me" becomes "But she's a ten when she's on top of ''him.''"
93* CoverVersion:
94** Music/KateBush's "Running Up That Hill." Sharon has also done a cover of Music/ToriAmos' "Crucify."
95** To celebrate their ''Elements'' concert, the band took to releasing covers of different songs in different genres weekly in the lead up. They can be found [[http://www.within-temptation.com/qcovers/ here.]]
96* CrapsackWorld:
97** The subject of "Deceiver of Fools" lives in one.
98** "Utopia" is about one of these.
99--->Why does it rain, rain, rain down on "Utopia"?
100* {{Cyborg}}: "Raise Your Banner" features a group of these led by a young [[spoiler:human]] woman against an army.
101* {{Determinator}}: "Overcome" and "Stand My Ground".
102* DeterminedDefeatist:
103** "Stand My Ground" is about facing something that the narrator knows she can hardly overcome or survive.
104** "Shot In The Dark":
105--->And I'm wondering why I still fight in this life\
106'Cause I've lost all my faith in this damn bitter strife
107** "Endless War" is about someone who's haunted by their DarkAndTroubledPast, breaks further and further, and keeps on fighting a HopelessWar.
108* DroppedInSpeechClip: "Our Solemn Hour" samples UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_ye_men_of_valour Be ye men of valour]] speech.
109* EmotionlessGirl: "Frozen."
110-->I can't feel my senses\
111I just feel the cold\
112All colors seem to fade away\
113I can't reach my soul
114* EpicRocking: "Enter," "Candles," "The Promise," "Deceiver of Fools," and "The Truth Beneath the Rose" are all in the seven minute range. Most of their songs are four to five minutes long, making these selections stand out more.
115* EpicInstrumentalOpener:
116** The album versions of "Stand My Ground" and "Raise Your Banner" takes about 40 seconds to set the scene.
117** "Iron," "The Truth Beneath the Rose," and "Tell Me Why" are also this, as are a number of songs from ''Enter.''
118** Subverted with ''Mother Earth'''s "Intro" -- which is more paranoia-inducing than epic.
119* FakeOutFadeOut: "Deceiver of Fools" -- the fade-out occurs two minutes in the song but since the song is [[EpicRocking seven and a half minutes long,]] the listener is easily aware that the song will return.
120* TheFairFolk: Mother Maiden and her underlings from the short films.
121* FallenAngel: In "Angels."
122* FateWorseThanDeath: "It's the Fear."
123* FemaleAngelMaleDemon: The video for "Angels" has Sharon the angel versus a demonic priest. [[spoiler: Averted towards the end of the video, where the other, male, band members are revealed to be angels as well, wings and all.]]
124* FollowYourHeart: "Faster," "Stand My Ground," "Shot in the Dark," and "Whole World is Watching."
125* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: "Angels" sums up this trope nicely, telling the subject of the song that he's responsible for his own choices.
126-->The world may have failed you, it doesn't give you reason why\
127You could have chosen a different path in life
128* FriendToAllLivingThings: "In Perfect Harmony" is a textbook example, aside from [[GenderFlip the subject being male]].
129* GenreMashup: Gothic, rock, symphonic, and metal. Some combination of those four words fit the band's musical style. Which combination fits best is a matter of personal opinion.
130* GoryDiscretionShot: Averted twice and played straight once in "Sinead." Also employed in "Frozen" to protect the viewer from [[spoiler:seeing the abuse the man is inflicting on his wife and daughter]].
131* GratuitousGerman: "Cyanide Love" features two lines in German as the pre-chorus.
132* GriefSong: "Supernova" was written by Sharon after her father passed away. The song is about her waiting and wishing for a sign from her father in the afterlife to let her know that he's okay. Appropriately named, because a "supernova" is the death of a star, both literal and figurative in this instance, as Sharon's father obviously was very important to her.
133--> I'm waiting for the light of your supernova, your last goodbye...
134* HarshVocals:
135** Robert when he sings in the songs from ''Enter'', ''The Heart of Everything'' and ''Hydra.''
136** Sharon's singing in "The Heart of Everything," "Final Destination," "In the Middle of the Night," and "Murder" may fall into this category as well.
137** Surprisingly averted in "Dangerous," which features Howard Jones. When you find out that the guest singer is the ex-frontman of Music/KillswitchEngage, you expect to hear some guttural vocals.
138* HeavyMeta: "Gothic Christmas," which parodies many of the tropes used in GothicMetal:
139-->Santa's going to wear a black dress\
140Just for me and you\
141Santa's going to grunt in Latin\
142And slay a dragon or two.
143* HeelRealisation: "The Truth Beneath the Rose" is from the point of view of a KnightTemplar who's realised how wrong their actions were, and wishes to become TheAtoner.
144* {{Hologram}}: Used in the "Ice Queen" and "Memories" videos.
145* HopeSpot:
146** Discussed and subverted in "Deceiver of Fools" -- the subject recognises that in their heart there's an ever-present light at the end of the tunnel, but knows it won't actually lead anywhere because of the extent of the darkness.
147** As well as "Lost," particularly the bridge, where Sharon notes that "hope plays a wicked game with the mind" and ends with "She won't come around" referring to whoever it is the protagonist was trying to save. And since the next song on the list is "Murder," whoever was responsible for this is in for [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge one hell of a reckoning.]]
148* IconicOutfit: "[[Series/DoctorWho My name is Sharon den Adel. I fought the Daleks, and I am human]]" --A Website/{{Tumblr}} user describing Sharon's golden dress during the ''Elements'' Concert ([[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdl5zi5ng41ryhbrqo5_500.jpg Link.]])
149* IWillFindYou: "Somewhere" and "Pale." And from ''The Unforgiving'': "Stairway to the Skies" and to some extent, "Lost." ''Resist'' has "Trophy Hunter".
150* IceQueen: Used a metaphor for winter in "Ice Queen."
151* InDaClub: The video for "Sinead" starts out like this. [[spoiler: But is immediately subverted once we see the titular character walk in with two guns and shoot two middle aged men in the chest while another man tries to flee the scene.]]
152* {{Instrumentals}}: "Blooded."
153* InterspeciesRomance: Depending on one's interpretation of "Aquarius."
154* IntertwinedFingers: Between Tarja and Sharon in "Paradise."
155* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: "Frozen" mentions sacrifices the narrator makes for her loved one and says, "You won't forgive me, but I know you'll be all right."
156* KarmicDeath:
157** The priest in the ''Angels'' video. He gets torn apart by the souls of his victims from beyond the grave.
158** The victims of Sinead and Mother Maiden's servants in ''The Unforgiving'' may count as this.
159* KnightInSourArmor: The narrator of "Paradise," who argues that even if the world is flawed, it's still worth fighting for.
160-->No, we're not in paradise\
161This is who we are\
162This is what we've got\
163No, it's not a paradise\
164But it's all we want\
165And it's all that we're fighting for\
166Though it's not paradise.
167* LighterAndSofter: Their second album ''Mother Earth'' is considerably softer than ''Enter.'' Subsequent releases have been progressively DarkerAndEdgier however.
168* LongRunnerLineUp: Type 2, with the current lineup dating back to October 2011 when it was announced Stefan was joining the group for touring duties.
169* LovedINotHonorMore: "Hand of Sorrow" is about the fact that the titular Hand's duty prevents him from being with his True Love.
170* MaleBandFemaleSinger
171* MelismaticVocals: Common in the first two albums (such as "Restless" and "Mother Earth") rarer afterwards.
172* MoodWhiplash: The existentialist speech "Why Not Me?" is followed on ''The Unforgiving'' by "Shot in the Dark," where the singer discusses her betrayal, loss of faith and desire for it to all be over.
173* MurderBallad: "Jane Doe," "The Promise," and "Murder."
174* MurderMakesYouCrazy: Implied in "Jane Doe:"
175-->No matter how many stones you put inside\
176She'll always keeps on floating in your mind\
177With every turn of your head you see her face again\
178until the end\
179over and over again...
180* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Ruud in the video for "Jillian."
181* NatureMetal:
182** "Ice Queen" anthropomorphizes winter. It's about how dangerous yet majestic snow is.
183** "Mother Earth" is about how beautiful and unpredictable nature and the weather can be.
184** "Aquarius" is about someone who loves the ocean, despite knowing of its dangers.
185** "In Perfect Harmony" mixes this with HeavyMithril. It's about a boy who was born and raised alone in a forest.
186** "Forsaken" has a GreenAesop about global warming.
187** "Never Ending Story" has a great focus on the start and eventual end of nature.
188* NewSoundAlbum:
189** Almost every album, actually, due to the long intervals between each, but ''Mother Earth'' was particularly different from its predecessor, ''Enter.'' The band moved away from a mostly GothicMetal sound towards SymphonicMetal, Robert stopped using HarshVocals and the average song length was shortened quite a bit.
190** ''The Unforgiving'' as well, with its '80s influences.
191** And then came ''Resist'', which almost drops the metal sound entirely in favor of a more contemporary techno pop inspired one.
192* NonAppearingTitle: "Iron."
193* OdeToFamily: "Say My Name" is about someone whose relative has Alzheimer's.
194* OfCorsetsSexy: Sharon's stage outfits, which she designs herself (She studied fashion before becoming a professional singer.)
195* OneWomanSong:
196** "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)" is a ShoutOut to the Literature/{{Deverry}} Cycle novel series, of which one of the characters is a character known as Jill, who is the reincarnated LoveInterest of the male protagonist in the series.
197** Subverted, however, with "Sinead." The character in question is one of the people revived by [[SerialKillerKiller Mother Maiden]] to be part of her fight against evil.
198* OneWomanWail: Sharon does this. A lot. So does Tarja in "Paradise" and Genderflipped in "Firelight" with Jasper.
199* OutOfGenreExperience: Sharon lent her voice to Music/ArminVanBuuren's "In and Out of Love." Notable for being the most liked video on Dutch Website/{{YouTube}} and one of the most viewed videos on Website/YouTube worldwide with over 120 million views ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvpctgU_s8 Link.]])
200* TheOwlKnowingOne: Sharon, as the MotherNature character in the video for "Mother Earth," can transform into a Barn Owl [[VoluntaryShapeshifter at will.]]
201* {{Patricide}}:
202** "Triplets:" A subversion, the son kills his father as revenge for the abuse, but it was with a grenade in his bed so he dies from the explosion as well.
203* PimpedOutDress: There is an entire fansite devoted to Sharon's dresses.
204** And a [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2215850620 Facebook group.]]
205* PowerBallad: "Lost," "Memories," and many more.
206* PrecisionFStrike: Their cover of "Little Lion Man" by Music/MumfordAndSons leaves the word intact, a "Fuck you" can also be heard in the "Mother Maiden" video, and Music/{{Xzibit}}'s rap in "And We Run" includes: "...I crush every motherfucking thing I touch."
207* ReligionRantSong: "Don't Pray for Me" is a Type 2 example:
208-->I don't need your absolution, so don't hold that sword over me\
209For my confessions I don't need a church\
210I don't need salt to know where it hurts
211* RevengeBallad: ''The Unforgiving'' has a few examples, most notably "In the Middle of the Night" and "Murder".
212* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: "The Promise," "Murder," and "Tell Me Why." "Angels" also features one, implied to be from beyond the grave.
213* RockOpera: ''The Unforgiving.''
214* RousingSpeech: The entirety of "See Who I Am" is one of these. So are "Stand My Ground," "Faster," "Whole World is Watching," and "Iron."
215* ScaryScorpions: Appears in the video for "The Howling" (in the apocalyptic environment setting). Its appearance is downplayed though, as it only appears in the beginning of the video where it rests on a horrified Sharon's hand.
216* {{Scatting}}: ''The Silent Force'''s "Intro" as well as "The Cross" are two good example.
217* SealedEvilInACan: "Our Solemn Hour" is about one of these escaping somewhere down the line, with [[SinsOfOurFathers our generation to blame]] when it does. [[spoiler:According to the voice in the background, the sealed evil is actually [[WarIsHell war]].]]
218* SerialKillerKiller: Sinead and all of Mother Maiden's servants in ''The Unforgiving,'' emphasized in the song "Murder."
219* ShoutOut:
220** A number of the songs contain recognisable elements from fantasy works (provided you're a fan of course, otherwise it's going to be lost on you.) Much less subtly, "Film/FinalDestination" was indeed inspired by and is about the film series of the same name.
221** "A Demon's Fate" from ''The Unforgiving'' uses the same pattern of 5 descending notes as the famous opening of the theme for Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera.
222** "Hand of Sorrow" from ''The Heart of Everything'' was inspired by Creator/RobinHobb's ''[[Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings Farseer]]'' trilogy, though the lyrics are just vague enough that it could be applied to any number of stories as well.
223** The music video for "All I Need" could just as well be called "Ode to Film/TheCell."
224* SingleStanzaSong: "Toward The End."
225* SinisterMinister: Possibly the serial killer of "Angels", though considering his other costumes, that may have been a case of BadHabits.
226* SopranoAndGravel:
227** Used in ''Enter'' (save for "Restless" (Sharon only), "Deep Within" (Robert only), and "Blooded" (neither),) before being abandoned for ''Mother Earth'' with the exception of:
228** "Jane Doe:" A bonus track on some editions of ''The Silent Force.''
229** ''The Heart of Everything'' has "What Have You Done" (with Keith Caputo), "Our Solemn Hour," and the title track itself.
230** ''Hydra'' has "Silver Moonlight" and "Tell Me Why" (Robert), "Dangerous" ([[Music/KillswitchEngage Howard Jones]]), "And We Run" ([[AWildRapperAppears Xzibit]]), and "Whole World is Watching" ([[Music/SoulAsylum Dave Pirner]] / Piotr Rogucki). In a {{downplayed}} example, "Paradise (What About Us?)" pairs Sharon's raspier voice with renowned lyric soprano Music/TarjaTurunen.
231** ''Resist'' has "The Reckoning" ([[Music/PapaRoach Jacoby Shaddix]]), "Raise Your Banner" ([[Music/InFlames Anders Fridén]]) and "Firelight" (Jasper Steverlinck, though his vocals are much softer than the other examples).
232** ''Bleed Out'' features their longtime producer Daniel Gibson on "Entertain You" and the singers from German band Music/{{annisokay}} on "Shed My Skin"
233** Their collaboration with Music/AskingAlexandria on "Faded Out" mostly averts this - aside from some [[OneWomanWail One Woman Wails]] throughout the first verse, Sharon mainly uses her lower, harsher register, which isn't majorly different in timbre to Danny Worsnop's. She even throws in some [[MetalScream Metal Screams]] in the choruses for good measure.
234* SpikyHair / DyeHard: Martijn had a mohawk during the ''Mother Earth'' and ''The Silent Force'' eras. He then ditched the mohawk but went blonde for ''The Heart of Everything'' which faded back to a sandy brown colour a year later, which remains that way to this day.
235* SpokenWordInMusic:
236** "Our Solemn Hour" includes samples from UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "Be Ye Men of Valour" speech.
237** From "The Promise:" ''"Where are you now... You're almost in heaven."''
238** In "Iron:" Part of Mother Maiden's YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive speech.
239** In "Say My Name:" "Do I know you?" is quite hauntingly said.
240** "Covered by Roses:" Has a young girl quoting an excerpt from Creator/JohnKeats' "Ode on Melancholy."
241** "Why Not Me:" As the intro to ''The Unforgiving.''
242** "Don't Pray for Me" samples the line "Would all who wish to die, please raise their hands?" from the [[Film/CyranoDeBergerac1950 1950 film version]] of ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''
243* StartMyOwn: Played with. Robert's brother Martijn Westerholt was the band's keyboard player for a while early on, but he had to drop out due to illness. A few years later, Martijn formed a SymphonicMetal band called Music/{{Delain}} with vocalist Charlotte Wessels. The two bands are on good terms: Delain has opened for Within Temptation on several occasions, and Sharon made a guest appearance on their debut album ''Lucidity''.
244* SymphonicMetal: ''Enter'' was mostly GothicMetal with traces of this, DoomMetal and DeathMetal; later albums are mostly this genre. The song "[[AntiChristmasSong Gothic Christmas]]" was a joke aimed at those fans who continue to call them a GothicMetal band.
245* TalkyBookends: With the exception of "Fire and Ice," all the singles from ''The Unforgiving'' feature one at the beginning.
246* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: Played with -- Sharon prefers elaborate gowns to skimpy outfits, but much of what she does in their earlier music videos can still be described as writhing.
247* TitleTrack: ''Enter'', ''Mother Earth'', ''The Heart of Everything'' and ''Bleed Out''
248* TruckDriversGearChange: "Somewhere," "Say My Name," "Pearls of Light," and "Iron."
249** Subverted with "Pale."
250* UncommonTime: Most of "Restless" is in CommonTime, but the first three sections of the song as well as the ending alternate between 4/4 and 9/8.
251* UnpluggedVersion: Most of the songs on ''An Acoustic Night at the Theatre.''
252* VocalEvolution: Subverted. Sharon can still easily hit the high notes of their earlier songs, but the deeper vocals found in their more most recent albums was because she thinks they fit the album better.
253* VocalTagTeam: See the above SopranoAndGravel entry.
254* WarIsHell: "The Howling," "Our Solemn Hour," "The Truth Beneath the Rose," "Raise Your Banner," "Endless War," "We Go to War".
255* WhamShot: "Raise Your Banner" appears to be about a conflict between protestors (with the band amongst them) and the army set in the future interspersed with scenes with robots being put together. It's not until the first bomb is tossed by the soldiers causing an explosion which removes Sharon's robotic legs when it's revealed the protestors are cyborgs. [[spoiler:Well, except for their leader, who was the one that built them]].
256* WinterRoyalLady: Winter itself is "Ice Queen" in the eponymous song.
257* AWorldHalfFull: The video for "Paradise" is set AfterTheEnd, and the two protagonists spend most of the movie struggling to get some parts and nuclear fuel up a hill in a blasted desert. [[spoiler: And then they get the cloud seeder set up with the spare parts and the fuel placed, bring the rain to the wasteland, and are last seen [[EarnYourHappyEnding standing, hands together, in a verdant forest.]]]]
258-->No, it's not our paradise. But it's all that we want, and all that we're fighting for.
259* WorldHealingWave: The music video of "Paradise" again, once the protagonists get the cloud seeder running.
260* WouldHurtAChild: Both "Triplets" videos.

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