I have recently discovered within temptation after hearing one of their songs on a tv show. I had to look it up as i liked the song (all i need) so much and found out it was by this band. After listening to a few more of their songs on youtube i had to buy one of their albums as their songs are amazing. After listening to three of their albums they have now become one of my favourite bands.

They are classed as a symphonic metal group which i think is an accurate description of their sound. The heart of everything is the most recent album by within temptation and contains more heavy metal than their previous albums which are also excellent. Every song on this album is great and i can listen to this album over and over again without getting bored. If you like bands like evanescence then you will love within temptation!

The lead singer Sharon Den Adel has an incredible voice and vocal range and some songs even have some opera style singing in them. All the songs are very powerful and also some have a choir and orchestra in the background making the songs even more outstanding. I would describe the songs as kind of enchanting as they have such a mixture of instruments and vocal ranges in them. You can tell the songs have been well developed as there is so much more to them than pop songs like girls aloud, lily allen etc.

I think this is my favourite album of the three i have listened to because their sound has developed really well and there is a mixture of ballads and powerful metal songs in this album. However if you like this album i would also listen to their other previous albums: the silent force and mother earth as they are also excellent. My favourite songs on this album would have to be 'All i Need' as it is such a beautiful and powerful ballad and is lovely to listen to and 'What Have You Done' which is a more symphonic metal song. I also like 'The Cross' and well.....all of them! Its quite hard to pick favourites as they are all so brilliant.

I highly recommend listening to this album as it is incredible and the songs are just epic in my opinion, so powerful and enchanting. Give it a go!