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About Me

..Hi, my name's Samantha .
I started this profile to bring Aussie Within Temptation fans together, as well as show the band (and their management) that there are enough fans down here to make a tour worthwhile.
Full name: Sharon Janny den Adel.
Date of Birth: 12th July, 1974.
Instrument: Vocals.
Favourite Music: Arid, Tori Amos, Heather Nova, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Bjork, Alanis Morisette, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, A Perfect Circle, Ayreon, The Verve, Orphanage, Annie Lennox, Enigma, HIM and Bob Marley.
Favourite Movies: The X-Men, Braveheart, Interview with the Vampire, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, Sleepy Hollow, Grease, Dumb & Dumber and Dances with Wolves,
Favourite television show: Ren and Stimpy.
Full name: Robert Westerholt.
Date of Birth: 2nd January, 1975.
Main instrument: Guitar.
Other intruments: Keyboard and PC.
Favourite Music: Tori Amos (music and emotions on the highest level), Paradise Lost (with gothic they convinced me of the power of melodic doommetal and good songs, I still love their albums), Rhapsody (great orchestrations and heavy metal, way over the top, I really enjoy their musical adventures), Iron Maiden (godfathers of heavy metal, who doesn't have a record of theirs?) and much more.
Favourite Movies: X-men, Braveheart and The Matrix.
Full name: Rudolf Adrianus Jolie.
Date of Birth: 19th April, 1976.
Main instrument: Guitar.
Other intruments: A little drums, bass, keys.
Favourite Music: Spock's Beard, Pain of Salvation, Incubus, Tori Amos, Ryan Adams, Renaissance, Cynic, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Nine Inch Nails, Tribal Tech, Lucinda Williams.
Favourite Movies: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, God's Lonely Man, The Virgin Suicides and The Sixth Sense.
Full name: Jeroen van Veen.
Date of Birth: 26th October, 1974.
Main instrument: Bass.
Other intruments: Drums.
Favourite Music: Progressive-, symphonic- and guitar-rock.
Favourite Movies: American Beauty, Twelve Monkeys, American History X, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Leon, Tarantino movies, Monthy Python movies, Dogma movies and a lot of sci-fi and horror movies.
Full name: Martinus Johannes Everardus Spierenburg.
Date of Birth: 30th January, 1975.
Main instrument: Keyboards.
Favourite Music: I like a lot, and I also dislike a lot :-) So I can't really give one answer...
Favourite Movie: The Matrix.
Full name: Stephen van Haestregt.
Date of Birth: 12th September, 1972.
Main instrument: Drums.
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My Interests

Australian Within Temptation links!
Australian Within Temptation Fan Group
Roadrunner Records Australia

I'd like to meet:

The video for Within Temptation's latest single, "All I Need"!

Music:


~ Band Bio ~
Before Within Temptation were even dreamed of, Robert Westerholt (at about 17 years of age) and Martijn Spierenburg founded a Doom Metal band named The Circle. A demo was released in December 1992 called, 'Symphony Number One'.
However, the band only lasted about a year before most of the members left.
Voyage was the next short-lived project, lasting between 1994-5. In 1996, Voyage was disposed of and some of the members; guitarist Michiel Papenhove and bassist Jereon Van Neen joined Robert and his girlfriend Sharon den Adel, and the band Within Temptation was formed.
There was just one problem - they needed a drummer. Richard Willemse joined the band, but left shortly after. Dennis Leeflang joined and recorded the album 'Enter' before he also left. Ivar de Graff was then recruited.
* 1997 *
April 7th 1997 was the release date of Within Temptation's first album 'Enter' with the Dutch label DSFA. The single 'Restless' was released the same day.

The media loved Within Temptation, they were given a lot of positive publicity so the band were booked to play four concerts and also invited to play at Dynamo, one of the largest Dutch music festivals. Their live gigs were such a success that their popularity and fan base spread to other countries. Within Temptation toured and played a few shows in Germany and Austria.
1997 also saw the arrival of a new band member. Robert's younger brother, Martijn Westerholt, became Within Temptation’s keyboard player.
* 1998 *
In 1998 Within Temptation travelled to Belgium, the Czech Republic and Germany to play at festivals. They also played on the main stage at Dynamo and performed in clubs throughout Holland. The media continued to give great reviews of Within Temptation's shows so their fan base continued to grow.
The mini album 'The Dance' was recorded containing two remixes and three new tracks.

* 1999 *
1999 was the year Within Temptation took a break so that they could go back to school and finish what they started before all of the unexpected success took over their lives. In their spare time they began to furnish their studio.
* 2000 *
In 2000 Within Temptation played at most of the major festivals in Holland (Waterpop, Bospop and Lowlands). And they also started to work on their new album 'Mother Earth', which was released on December 1st 2000.

* 2001 *
2001 was a highlight year for Within Temptation because of the continued success of 'Mother Earth'. The band played a major club tour in the Netherlands and also performed at Pinkpop and Dynamo.
'Our Farewell' and 'Ice Queen' were also released. Though, it was 'Ice Queen' that lead to Within Temptation's major European success. The single made it to number 2 in the Top 100 Charts and the video clip was being played on all of the music shows. 'Mother Earth' made it to number 3 in the Top 100 Album Charts and reached platinum status.
Michiel Papenhove left the band and a replacement guitarist named Jelle Bakker joined for a very short time. When Jelle left, Ruud Jolie joined as a permanent member.
Martijn Papenhove also left in 2001 and Martijn Spierenburg joined.
* 2002 *
In 2002 Within Temptation's popularity had soured so high that it didn't go unnoticed in other countries. They performed at festivals in Belgium, Germany, France and even headlined at one of Mexico's largest music festivals.
In Belgium 'Mother Earth' reached gold status. In The Netherlands Within Temptation received the 'Silver Harp' (a prestigious Dutch Music Award).
Ivar said farewell in 2002 and Stephen van Haestregt joined Within Temptation.
* 2003 *
The start of 2003 had Within Temptation touring through Europe as the supporting act for Paradise Lost.
'Mother Earth' was released in the other European countries, and the Benelux Countries released the single 'Running Up That Hill' (a cover of Kate Bush's hit).

'Ice Queen' was released as a single in Germany and Within Temptation's popularity grew to phenomenal lengths. It stayed in the Top 100 Charts for almost 30 weeks and 'Mother Earth' made it to number 7 in the album charts... it turned platinum after 40 weeks. Their album also made the Top 20 Charts in Norway.
Within Temptation released their first DVD, 'The Mother Earth' tour.

On May 4th Within Temptation were flown by helicopter to perform at an unbelievable four festivals in The Netherlands.
Because of all of Within Temptation's success, the band received a Conamus Music Export Award in The Netherlands.
* 2004 *
2004 was a year devoted to 'The Silent Force', the bands third and much anticipated album. It was recorded in Sweden, Russia, Belgium and Holland. It was finally released on the 15th November throughout Europe.
But before 'The Silent Force' was released, the single 'Stand My Ground' hit the music store shelves in Europe and was a major success! It made number 1 in the Dutch charts; number 5 in the German charts; the Top 10 in Finland, Spain and Belgium; the Top 20 in Austria and Switzerland and the Top 30 in Greece, Sweden and Norway.

* 2005 *
400,000 copies of 'The Silent Force' were sold throughout Europe in the beginning of 2005!

The second single from the album, 'Memories', was also a great chart success.

For the second year Within Temptation received the Conamus Music Export Award and the Edison Award after being nominated 'Best National Band'.
In February and March, Within Temptation toured Europe and even played a show in the Middle East at the Dubai Desert Rock Festival. 'The Silent Force' made it into the Top 10 in Dubai.
In April, Within Temptation received another TMF award for 'Best National Rock Band’.
The single 'Angels' was released in June and became a major hit.

On the 27th June a baby was born into the WT family. Stephen van Haestregt and his partner Veroniek gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Silvin.

A huge pinnacle in Within Temptation's history was staged on the 22nd July. Java Island was rocked by Within Temptation and special guests Orphanage, After Forever and The Heideroosjes! A surprise was the appearance of Michiel Papenhove, Ivar de Graff and Martijn Westerholt playing some classic songs with Within Temptation again!
The second Within Temptation DVD was released on the 21st of November 2005. 'The Silent Force Tour’ shot straight up in the Dutch charts debuting at number 2!

On December 7th 2005 Sharon gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Eva Luna. She was 8 weeks pre-mature (weighing only 1755 grams) so baby and mother were in hospital through Christmas and New Years.

* 2006 *
The band won a 'Golden God' award in 2006 from UK’s Metal Hammer magazine for best video – Angels.
The video for the song 'The Howling' was released in late 2006 to promote the computer game 'The Chronicles Of Spellborn'.
* 2007 *
Within Temptation received the Dutch Export Award ("Best International Selling Artist") for the forth year in a row!
In February 'What Have You Done', with guest singer Keith Caputo was released. The song is being played all around the world, even in Australia.

On the 17th March, Within Temptation released their forth album, The Heart Of Everything. It’s breaking into charts all over the world with no sign of backing down.

Monday the 11th of June saw Within Temptation release their second single from The Heart Of Everything - 'Frozen' which also features 'The Howling' single.

Television:

Request WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Channel V
Search 'Within Temptation' and 'What Have You Done' will pop up.
MTV Australia
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RAGE
They don't have a request page per se, but people write what they want to hear in the guestbook.
Video Hits
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Eclipse TV
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My Blog

TMF Awards.

As you've probably already heard, Within Temptation have won another two TMF awards. This time for "Best Live Act" and "Best Video" for What Have You Done. I stumbled across a video clip of ...
Posted by WT Australia on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:47:00 PST

"All I Need" Tracklisting And Cover!

Taken from Within Temptation's official blog. Hi everyone, We have great news about a new single we'll be releasing in Europe on November 5th! It will be "All I Need", for which we shot a video last...
Posted by WT Australia on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:28:00 PST

"All I Need" to be WT’s next single!

For those of you who don't get the Within Temptation newsletter, the next single is going to be "All I Need".The band have also released yet another version of the album "Mother Earth" in England thro...
Posted by WT Australia on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:06:00 PST

American Interview With Sharon

A friend of mine sent me a link of an American interview that Sharon did with a horrible interviewer, but anyway... she mentions Australia so you guys might be interested to give it a listen...
Posted by WT Australia on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:34:00 PST

Memorabilia?

Does anybody have any Within Temptation memorabilia to show off? I've added a new folder in the picture section. Take a photo, upload it, and send me the url so that I can show it off! I'm not ta...
Posted by WT Australia on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:19:00 PST

WT in Cream.

Amy sent me a little article that is featured in Cream magazine this quarter.Enjoy! ...
Posted by WT Australia on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:59:00 PST

The Heart Of Everything album launch at Bang!

Better late than never I suppose... The organisers of Bang nightclub have teamed up with Roadrunner Records to host an album launch for The Heart Of Everything tomorrow night, the 23rd June (whoever ...
Posted by WT Australia on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:04:00 PST

WT Samples

Within Temptation Mexico has found a website that has the track listing, with samples, of the songs on the Frozen single. The maxi-single will include:1. Frozen (Single Version)2. The Howling (Single...
Posted by WT Australia on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:31:00 PST

WT in the Herald Sun.

Geoff read this in the Herald Sun on May 20. GOTHIC ROCK The Heart of Everything Within Temptation roadrunner *** In short; a strong example of modern gothic-styled heavy rock. The latest offering fro...
Posted by WT Australia on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:55:00 PST

WT in MX Magazine!

I'm surprised that no one told me about this earlier.Within Temptation were featured in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane's MX Newspaper last Thursday the 17th May.This is awesome news guys!Within ...
Posted by WT Australia on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:04:00 PST