In a brand new interview with Ukrainian metalhead Vladyslav Stadnyk, who goes by the identify Metallic Pilgrim, WITHIN TEMPTATION frontwoman Sharon Den Adel was requested if she and her bandmates have commenced work on materials for the follow-up to 2023’s “Bleed Out” album. She responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, we’re already beginning writing once more. There’s sufficient to jot down about. And we’re actually having fun with it. We’re gonna take our time for it, as a result of it is gonna be actually a brand new sound once more for the band and everyone wants to regulate just a little bit.”
After noting that WITHIN TEMPTATION has seemingly shifted its focus in recent times from writing about private feelings and societal topics to tackling international injustices and reflecting the tumultuous state of the world, Metallic Pilgrim requested Sharon if she thinks the band’s subsequent album will characteristic related lyrical themes. She responded: “I believe we have all the time carried out that additionally earlier than, however perhaps we had been extra metaphorical and never as clear in regards to the topics we selected and what we wrote about. It is laborious to return once more, how we did it earlier than this. So, yeah, I believe so, however we’re not there but. The album’s not completed but, so it is troublesome to say what we’re gonna do finally, however, yeah, most likely there shall be quite a bit nonetheless in there.”
This previous February, Sharon spoke to the “Everblack” podcast about WITHIN TEMPTATION‘s fixed musical evolution, saying: “The fireplace hasn’t died, so, sure, we do attempt to proceed and develop. However I believe that is what’s all the time been inspirational to us — to not do the identical factor again and again and make that even higher, however it’s extra, like, to finalize that or one thing, however extra like attempting new issues. I believe that is what makes our blood stream, makes it boil, and we won’t wait to do the following factor. However I additionally admire individuals who could make their fashion a sure artwork and make it good or someway. Nevertheless it’s for us anyway. We all the time wanna do one thing new once more.”
In December 2023, Den Adel was requested by Mexico’s Summa Inferno why it was vital for her and her bandmates to voice their political beliefs in a few of their just lately launched songs, together with “Wi-fi” and the title observe of their newest album “Bleed Out”, which have highlighted such present matters because the conflict in Ukraine and the suspicious demise of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian girl “detained” for not carrying a hijab. She mentioned: “We’re musicians. And what do musicians do? They’re storytellers, in my view. No less than that is how I see myself, as a storyteller.
“Again within the day when there have been castles, a whole bunch of years in the past, when the musicians had been touring from nation to nation, what they did is deliver the information from one nation to a different nation,” she defined. “If there was a conflict far down South, then half yr later, folks would know up North as a result of then the musicians got here they usually make music, telling the tales of what is occurring on this planet. And I believe that essence of being a musician, I believe that is vital. I believe the essence of holding sure topics alive differently than up to now, in fact, however now extra just like the information goes so quick in our time, as a result of we’ve got Web and the whole lot, we all know what’s occurring in each nation, roughly. And the factor is it turns into previous information very quick. However sure issues it is advisable to hold addressing and speaking about, like what’s occurring in Iran, as an example, but additionally the conflict within the Ukraine, and naturally now that what’s occurring in Gaza and in Israel. These matters are vital to speak about.
“For us, we have written songs about sure of those matters, like Ukraine and Iran,” Sharon added. “We did write one thing about that. We had been impressed by that. In order that’s why we’re speaking about it in our interviews. And since it turns into previous information in a short time right here in Europe. I do not know the way it’s in your nation, however no one talks that a lot anymore in regards to the Ukraine or what’s occurring in Iran. By no means, as a result of it isn’t within the information anymore. Ukraine is, as a result of we’re, in fact, supporting them, however in several methods from a European perspective. However Iran, it is already very a lot previous information since Mahsa Amini died as a result of she resisted the morality police and died in a horrible manner after being overwhelmed to demise, simply because she wore her garments in an incorrect manner, to them. And it is crucial to speak about these matters as a result of in any other case it turns into previous information and their battle continues to be occurring. And that is in lots of topics. We might have written about so many issues on this planet, even about South America the place sure issues are occurring. However these had been the issues that impressed us once we had been within the studio. At that second, the conflict broke out in Ukraine. At that second, Mahsa Amini had simply died and we watched the information, and earlier than we knew it, it was built-in in our music. Nevertheless it might have been additionally different matters which are simply as a lot wanted to be talked about, in fact. However these had been the issues that had been occurring within the second once we had been writing music.”
Requested if she is afraid of the backlash and criticism she and the remainder of WITHIN TEMPTATION may obtain for publicly voicing their political beliefs, Sharon mentioned: “Nicely, I imagine in democracy. And I believe additionally we’ve got a voice, and I imagine in debating. What I hope to do with this — we’re not lashing out or criticizing something. It is extra like we attempt to hold the topic alive as a result of simply by speaking about it, we are able to deliver different folks to new concepts or get just a little bit deeper into the topic or begin being within the topic and occupied with what’s the proper factor to do. What sort of world will we wanna stay in? I believe that is query. So I am not afraid of feeling attacked due to the truth that we take a sure perspective as a result of I believe… Nicely, I believe it is, that is the factor of democracy. We are able to all be a voice and we are able to all contribute to the talk on what sort of world do you wanna stay in and what do you settle for from one another and what do not we settle for from one another. There ought to be a sure strain from different international locations attempting to assist sure folks in want. And I believe it is most vital that we assist those that are in oppression, who’re oppressed, and to allow them to know there’s folks occupied with them and supporting them.”