History Music / WithinTemptation

* 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.]]

* BreakTheCutie: "Blue Eyes."

* 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.]])

* 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.]]

** The priest in the ''Angels'' video. He gets torn apart by the souls of his victims from beyond the grave.

Though it's not paradise.

* Main/{{Cyborg}}: "Raise Your Banner" features a group of these led by a young [[spoiler:human]] woman against an army.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: "In Perfect Harmony" is a textbook example, aside from [[GenderFlip the subject being male.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.''"

* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: Played with -- Sharon prefers elaborate gowns to skimpy outfits, but much of what she does in the music videos can still be described as writhing.

* AlbumTitleDrop: Occurs in ''Enter'', ''The Heart of Everything'' and ''Bleed Out''. Averted on ''Mother Earth'' and subverted with ''Resist'' -- the word appears in the second ''Bleed Out'' single "The Purge".

* WarIsHell: "The Howling," "Our Solemn Hour," "The Truth Beneath the Rose," "Raise Your Banner," "Endless War," "We Go to War"

* TitleTrack: ''Enter'', ''Mother Earth'', ''The Heart of Everything''.

* WarIsHell: "The Howling," "Our Solemn Hour," "The Truth Beneath the Rose," "Raise Your Banner," "Endless War."

* AlbumTitleDrop: Occurs in ''Enter', ''The Heart of Everything'' and ''Bleed Out''. Averted on ''Mother Earth'' and subverted with ''Resist'' -- the word appears in the second ''Bleed Out'' single "The Purge".

* AlbumTitleDrop: Occurs in ''Enter'' and ''The Heart of Everything''. Averted on ''Mother Earth'' and subverted with ''Resist'' -- the word appears in the second post-''Resist'' single "The Purge".

!! Discography:

!! Band Members:

* Sharon den Adel - Vocals (1996–present)
* Robert Westerholt - Rhythm guitar, grunts (Studio only, 2011–present) (1996–present)
* Jeroen van Veen - Bass guitar (1996–present)
* Ruud Jolie - Lead guitar (2001–present)
* Martijn Spierenburg - Keyboards (2001–present)
* Mike Coolen - Drums (2011–present)
* Stefan Helleblad - Guitar (2011-present)

!! Tropes Queen:

** "Frozen:" The father abuses both his [[DomesticAbuser wife and daughter]] in the video.
** "Triplets:" The father apparently molests his son, as evidenced by his hopping into the same bed.

* AlbumTitleDrop: Occurs in ''Enter'' and ''The Heart of Everything''. Averted on ''Mother Earth'' and subverted with ''Resist'' - the word appears in the second post-''Resist'' single "The Purge".

* ConceptAlbum: ''The Unforgiving.''
* ClimacticMusic: "Murder" and "A Demon's Fate" from ''The Unforgiving.''
* ContinuityNod: The man who solicits a streetside girl in "Utopia" is the priest from "Angels." FridgeHorror ensues.

* 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").

* SpokenWordInMusic:y** "Our Solemn Hour" includes samples from UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill's "Be Ye Men of Valour" speech.