Enter (album)

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Enter
Studio album by Within Temptation
Released	1997
Recorded	?
Genre	Symphonic metal
Length	45:42
Label	DSFA Records
Producer(s)	?
Within Temptation chronology
	Enter (1997)	The Dance (EP) (1998)

Enter is the first studio album from the symphonic metal band Within Temptation, released in 1997. Although this album shows off Sharon den Adel's voice, the band's guitarist Robert Westerholt provides gruff death metal growls too.

The album's style is very instrumental compared to the band's later works. Many of the tracks have instrumental vocals with no real lyrics. On several songs Westerholt provides growling (in contrast to the band's recent works where growling is no longer used).

The lyrics focus on death, darkness, hell, war, romance, emptiness and ghosts rather than love, nature and fantasy on later albums. The songs are much longer and slower and are generally more depressing. Indeed the album may be considered as gothic doom.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Restless"
2. "Enter"
3. "Pearls of Light"
4. "Deep Within"
5. "Gatekeeper"
6. "Grace"
7. "Blooded" (instrumental)
8. "Candles"

Within Temptation
Ruud Adrianus Jolie | Jeroen van Veen | Stephen van Haestregt | Sharon den Adel | Martijn Spierenburg | Robert Westerholt
Discography
Enter (1997) | Mother Earth (2001) | The Silent Force (2004)