History Music / WithinTemptation

-->Santa's going to wear a black vest\\

Santa's going to grunt and laugh\\

-->The world may have failed you, it doesn't give you reason why

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: A line in "Angels" tells the subject of the song that he's responsible for his own choices.
-->"The world may have failed you, it doesn't give you reason why. / You could have chosen a different path in life."

* FreudianExcuse: A line in "Angels" [[DefiedTrope rejects the idea of the trope,]] telling the subject of the song that he's responsible for his own choices.

-->Why does it rain, rain, rain down on "Utopia"?
* {{Determinator}}: The narrator of "Overcome."
** As its title might imply, "Stand My Ground" counts as well.

* HideYourPregnancy: The video for "Sinead," where Sharon wears a heavy coat and is only shown from the chest up.

!! Within Temptation's music includes examples of:

* MurderBallad: "Jane Doe," "The Promise," and "[[CaptainObvious Murder.]]"

** ''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).

* AltumVidetur: "Our Solemn Hour."

* IWillFindYou: "Somewhere" and "Pale." And from ''The Unforgiving'': "Stairway to the Skies" and to some extent, "Lost."

* OneWomanWail: Sharon does this. A lot.

* RousingSpeech: The entirety of "See Who I Am" is one of these. So are "Stand My Ground," "Faster," "The Whole World is Watching," and "Iron."

* TitleTrack: ''The Silent Force,'' ''The Unforgiving,'' and ''Hydra'' do not feature one of these.

* VocalEvolution: Subverted. Sharon can still easily hit the high notes of their earlier songs, but the deeper vocals found in their two most recent albums was because she thinks they fit the album better.

* WarIsHell: "The Howling," "Our Solemn Hour," and "The Truth Beneath the Rose."

* WouldHurtAChild: Both videos.

* EpicRocking: "Enter," "Candles," "The Promise," "Deceiver of Fools," and "The Truth Beneath the Rose" are all in the seven minute range.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually 6 but ranges from 1 ("In Perfect Harmony," "Bittersweet," and "Forgiven,") to 7 ("The Dance," "In the Middle of the Night," and "Silver Moonlight") and 8 in the heavier songs on ''Enter.''

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly

* 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 YouTube worldwide with over 120 million views ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvpctgU_s8 Link.]])

* AWildRapperAppears: It's a very unusual mix. Symphonic metal and rap sound like an awful combo but "And We Run" [[BetterThanItSounds makes it work.]]

Within Temptation are a [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands Dutch]] band founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and her husband, guitarist Robert Westerholt. Their music is usually described using two of the following words: [[SymphonicMetal symphonic]], {{goth}}ic, [[GothicMetal metal]], and [[GothRock rock]]. Their last two albums debuted at #1 on the Dutch charts.

* AWildRapperAppears: Xzibit in "And We Run."
* WomanInWhite: A lot of Sharon.

In 2017, Sharon den Adel announced a side project called Music/MyIndigo after suffering from WritersBlock while writing new material for Within Temptation. The debut album was released on April 20, 2018.

The 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.

* Stephan Helleblad - Guitar (2011-present)

* Stephan Hellebad - Guitar (2011-present)

* InDaClub: "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.]]

* BlatantLies: "Intro" on ''Mother Earth'' is the ''eighth'' track on the album, with the TitleTrack occupying the first spot instead.

They are reminiscent of a variety of bands including but in no way limited to, Music/{{Nightwish}}, Music/{{Epica}}, Music/{{Evanescence}}, Music/{{Kamelot}} and Music/LacunaCoil.

* 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 Westerholt 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 sang on their debut album ''Lucidity''.

** The setting of the video for "Paradise."