Million selling Dutch favourites WITHIN TEMPTATION return for their biggest UK headline shows to date this November. Confirming four shows, including Brixton Academy, tickets went on sale this week, priced at £16 regionally and £17.50 London.. watch the video..
The band delighted fans at the Download Festival this weekend, treating them to a last-minute special acoustic set and short Q&A session at the Nokia Rock Up And Play tent, in addition to their scheduled performance on the Dimebag Darrell stage & Kerrang! signing tent appearance. Within Temptation continue on the European festival circuit through June, with Japanese dates planned for early July.
Within Temptation return with new single, ‘The Howling’ on June 2
‘The Howling’ is the second track taken WT’s current UK Top 40 album, ‘The Heart of Everything’
The album hit the # 1 spot in Holland, Top 40 across 13 European countries (including 4 x Top 5 positions
3 platinum albums & over 1.5 Million records sold worldwide!!
Platinum and Gold selling records in Holland, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Luxembourg, Finland & chart success in Australia, Japan, Norway, France, Sweden and Turkey
amongst others!
‘The Howling’ was snapped up as the soundtrack of computer game ‘The Chronicles of Spellborn’, with an animated video launching worldwide on MTV.com.
Lead single ‘What Have You Done’ playlisted on B4, The Box, Chart Show TV, Kerrang TV (Top 10 video), Scuzz TV (Top 10 video) and spots on MTV2 and
the VH1 rock show!
Spins on XFM Scotland, Manchester & London & BBC 6Music, local BBC’es and ILRs nationwide‘A-listed at Kerrang Radio – acoustic session recorded, and both fan album playback event and ‘Live at Kerrang’ comp winners gig ran in conjunction with the station
Accolades: World Music Award (Best Selling Dutch), MTV Europe Award, Conamus Dutch Music Export prize (4 years running), Edison Award (Best National
Band - Dutch equivalent of The Brits), TMF Award, Metal Hammer Award (Best Video).