Thanks to the overwhelming fan support in the U.S., Dutch symphonic rockers WITHIN TEMPTATION have gone back-to-back-to-back with American Billboard chart debuts, and their star continues to rise over the west.
This past February, the band’s sixth studio album Hydra debuted at #16 on the American Billboard Top 200 Albums. Two weeks ago, the 2-in-1 reissued version of WITHIN TEMPTATION‘s long out-of-print full-length debut album Enter (1997) and The Dance EP (1998) debuted at #98 on the American Billboard Hard Rock chart. Today, their Let Us Burn: Elements & Hydra Live In Concert DVD has debuted at #41 on the American Billboard Hard Music chart.
That’s three separate releases in a ten month span resulting in three debuts on the American Billboard charts.
In baseball-speak, they’re 3-for-3 with a 1.000 batting average. In basketball terms, they boast a 100% three-point field goal percentage. In the football world, they’ve scored three consecutive touchdown passes to win the Super Bowl of Music. God bless America.
Two evenings with dazzling on-stage imagery, special effects, and fire-breathing dragons were captured in high-definition with pro audio mixed in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound in sold-out arenas in Antwerp, Belgium and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Commemorating the band’s 15th anniversary of existence, every nuance in the dynamic performances of WITHIN TEMPTATION‘s most requested career-spanning compositions - including new music from Hydra – has been visually & sonically preserved. With a total running time of 170 minutes, this 34-track live concert experience is available in the following three formats from the Nuclear Blast USA Webshop:
• Let Us Burn DVD + 2 live audio CDs
• Let Us Burn Blu-Ray + 2 live audio CDs
• Let Us Burn 2 live audio CDs
Watch the lyric video of “Covered By Roses” on WITHIN TEMPTATION’s official YouTube channel: http://youtu.be/hy8V0n4-jXU
ABOUT WITHIN TEMPTATION:
Masters of elegance, melodrama, and symphonic grandeur, WITHIN TEMPTATION are not just one of the most distinctive and charismatic bands to emerge from the metal scene in recent times; they are also one of European metal’s greatest success stories of the last decade.
Formed in 1996 by guitarist Robert Westerholt & vocalist Sharon den Adel and ably assisted by bassist Jeroen van Veen, the Dutch quintet set out to create music that would strike a sublime balance between the bold, evocative sweep of cinema soundtracks and the brooding, gothic splendor of the finest dark-hued rock & metal of the modern age. A well-kept secret in the Netherlands for the first few years of their existence, the band exploded into the mainstream spotlight across Europe with the release of their second album, Mother Earth, in 2000. Within a few studio albums, WITHIN TEMPTATION experienced huge commercial success in their native country as well as around the world, with a discography that has sold an excess of three million albums to date.
Hydra – the follow-up album to 2011’s Billboard Top 200 album, The Unforgiving – debuted at #16 on the Billboard Top 200 chart this past February, marking WITHIN TEMPTATION’s first appearance in the Billboard Top 20. It also debuted at #12 on the Billboard Digital Albums chart, #1 on both the iTunes Rock & iTunes Metal charts, and #1 on Amazon’s Hard Rock & Metal chart for two consecutive weeks. At radio the week of release, Hydra had the highest chart debut and ranked in the Top 5 on the CMJ Loud Rock chart. In Europe, Hydra debuted at #1 in The Netherlands & The Czech Republic and secured the #2 position in Switzerland & Finland, #4 in Germany, #6 in the U.K., and #9 in France. Nine months later, the 2-in-1 reissued version of WITHIN TEMPTATION‘s long out-of-print full-length debut album Enter (1997) and The Dance EP (1998) debuted at #98 on the American Billboard Hard Rock chart. Most recently, the band’s Let Us Burn: Elements & Hydra Live In Concert DVD debuted at #41 on the American
