There will be a double vinyl LP and a jewel-case CD version to complete the product range. Hydra will also be available as a Special Edition double CD with the Media book, featuring 10 tracks on disc one and eight bonus tracks on disc two. The Aesthetics of Risk in Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days. Finally, all these elements come securely packaged in a beautifully-designed, LP-sized box. Extensive collection of scholarly research on zombies in popular culture. As if that isn’t enough, there’s also an instrumental version of the whole of ‘Hydra’, as requested by fans, guitar picks and a songbook with all the sheet music from the album. This contains a CD-sized, 18-track Media book, including a 100-page booklet with unique photos and an embossed cover, and a double gatefold black vinyl version of the album with all 18 tracks above. If you think that’s innovative, take a look at the amazing, luxury box set version of Hydra. This innovative approach gives these versions unprecedented value for the Within Temptation disciple. Fans will love the bonus ‘Evolution Versions’ of four new songs, which contain audio commentary from den Adel and Westerholt and give the listener unique access into the development of the songs, their lyrical inspiration and the sound of the initial demos and vocals. The digital premium album, complete with digi-booklet, will be available on iTunes and includes 18 audio tracks and a music video. The band’s sixth studio album, Hydra, will be released on January 31st in Europe, and February 4th in North America.Īvailable initially as a digital premium album and a luxury box set, Hydra features stunning, neoclassical artwork by concept artist Romano Molenaar (X-men, Batman) who worked with Within Temptation on the artwork of the band’s previous album and comic, the Top 5 ‘The Unforgiving’ from 2011. He has such a captivating voice: it made the song exactly how it needed to be."
“When we wrote ‘Whole World Is Watching’, Dave was at the very top of our list. Hydra goes from strength to strength with ‘Whole World Is Watching’, featuring Soul Asylum’s golden-voiced singer Dave Pirner. It’s not a typical synthesizer, though – it’s distorted like a guitar, and it’s very aggressive.” It has the most bass drums we’ve ever used, too, and a very fast riff which we doubled with synths. That song is one of my favorite songs on the record and one of the fastest we’ve ever written. “He makes the song even heavier than it already is. “I always loved Howard’s voice,” she says. One of the album heaviest tracks, ‘Dangerous’ was recorded with the former Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones, whose epic vocals are a perfect fit for Sharon’s.
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He’s rapping at full force on this song, it’s really heavy." Sharon adds: “Xzibit brings a new element to our music that we’ve never had before! It's a new cross-over and we love it! As for the mighty Tarja, den Adel recalls: “The way she delivers those high melody lines left us all speechless. This song is about how you’ve got to live your life now. “What’s more, Hydra is a perfect title for our new album, because like the monster itself, the record represents the many different sides of our music.Ĭheck out the special guests on Hydra: Finnish operatic metal diva Tarja Turunen (ex-NIGHTWISH), acclaimed singer-songwriter Dave Pirner of SOUL ASYLUM and metalcore hero Howard Jones, formerly of Killswitch Engage as well as US hip-hop icon XZIBIT.Īsked to describe Xzibit’s performance on the song ‘And We Run’, Westerholt laughs: “Xzibit is amazing. “It’s like us – undefinable!” laughs Within Temptation guitarist and songwriter Robert Westerholt. When one of its many heads was cut off, two more grew in its place. An experience that built enough momentum to spread its cocktailian influence across America, powering the culture of tiki with it in the process.The Hydra, a mythological serpent creature from ancient Greece, couldn’t be killed.
It became a challenge that intrigued the people of Hollywood, a landmark drinking experience to be tried by all visitors to the area. “Who amongst you is tough enough to try this drink? Can you handle two? You definitely won’t be allowed a third…” Not only did the Zombie speak to these guys as a cocktail they could drink without manly shame, but it dared them to take it one step further. Not only is it a complex masterpiece of almost orchestral proportions – tying together a cacophony of ingredients in a beautiful interplay of tastes and flavors – but the Zombie Punch is also the living embodiment of its creator’s next level marketing prowess.Įrnest Raymond Beaumont-Gant (AKA ‘Don the Beachcomber’), founding father of Tiki, created the Zombie in order to bridge the gap between the rather rigid machismo of 1930’s male drinkers and the exotic nature of his own brand of ‘tropical’ rum rhapsodies.
And there lies the genius behind this cocktail.
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