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The Silent Force is the third studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation, released on 15 November 2004, by GUN Records. On 5 August 2008, The Silent Force along with Mother Earth were released in the United States by Roadrunner Records. This album is the first to feature Ruud Jolie on lead guitar, as well as Martijn Spierenburg on keyboards, after Martijn Westerholt had to leave the band due to illness. It is also the first to feature Daniel Gibson as their producer. The album deepened the band symphonic approach, this time featuring more atmospheric songs that resemble the predominant fantasistic lyrics, inspired both by literature and the band members personal lives.

The album spawned three singles that helped increasing the band`s popularity in Europe, all of them achieving commercial success in their homeland and several other European countries. The first single, `Stand My Ground`, was released in November 2004 and reached the fourth position on the Dutch Top 40. The second single, `Memories`, was released on 31 January 2005. The third and final single, `Angels`, was released on 13 June 2005. In order to promote the album, the band commenced their The Silent Force Tour in July 2004, playing throughout Europe and also having one concert in Dubai.

The album was met with generally favorable reviews and commercial success, increasing the band`s popularity outside the Netherlands. Metal Hammer considered the album important both for Within Temptation`s career and the development of the symphonic metal genre as a whole, a position shared by AllMusic. Only one week after its release, the album reached gold status in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Finland, later also achieving double platinum status in their homecountry and gold status in Germany.
Studio album by Within Temptation
Released 11 November 2004
29 August 2005 (UK)
Recorded 10 May–29 August 2004
Studio Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum
Sound Park Studios, Schiedam, Netherlands
ICP Studios, Brussels, Belgium
Studio #5 and Documentary Studio, Moscow, Russia
Genre Symphonic metal[1][2]
Length 46:24
Label
GUN (Europe)Roadrunner (rest of the world)
Producer
Daniel GibsonStefan Helleblad
Production and recording
The times preceding the composition and the release of The Silent Force were eventful for the band. After some line-up changes and the commercial and critical success of Mother Earth, released at the end of 2000, the band had been feeling pressured and vulnerable, as playing music was considered mainly a hobby for the members up to then. In addition to that, they had also switched labels, from Dutch independent DSFA Records to German GUN Records, which could promote them on a greater scale. This transition was met with contractual turmoil, as the band was still inexperient and their lawyers were not specialized in working inside the music industry.[3]

Plans for the band`s third album came to fruition in 2004, and the band entered the studio in the summer that year. Writing took four to five months[4] and recording took eight weeks.[3] The band considered it a dark and tense time, as they were daily shutting themselves in an all-closed studio from 9am to 11pm and having their meals there. According to lead vocalist Sharon den Adel, the darkness of the studio itself contributed to enhance the gloomy feeling that dominated the band at the time.[3]

Now signed to a bigger label, the budget for the recording sessions was improved. Due to that, the band were able to deepen the symphonic inclinations they already had and record with a full orchestra instead of using computerised orchestral sounds. It was, however, a challenging process, as the album was being recorded in the outskirts of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and the orchestra was situated in Moscow, Russia. The process of sending and receiving musical files was slow and laborious, due to the great size of the files and the low internet speed at that time.[3] In spite of considering it stressful, den Adel commented that it all worked out really well in the end, and that the band grow a lot as musicians from that experience.[5] It was the band`s first album to be produced by Daniel Gibson.

Lyrics and inspiration
Lyrically, the album took inspiration in fantasy, literature, and the band members personal lives. According to den Adel, the title of the album refers to the forces that sometimes lead people to do certain things.[4] In an interview on Buzznet, she discussed the title of the album:

`The title of our latest album `The Silent Force` is actually taken from the title of a book from the beginning of the 19th century from a Dutch writer (who lived in Indonesia when he was young) called Louis Couperus. All the songs on this album are in some way related to that book (or at least the title).`[6]

In an interview with Metal Hammer, den Adel commented that the depressing times the band members were undergoing during the writing and recording process reflected on the dark tone in the lyrics of the album.[4] The political turmoil that the Netherlands were facing after the Assassination of Pim Fortuyn also impacted the band.[3] Despite not agreeing with Fortuyn political views, the members were fearing for their future and also the future of their country. This topic was addressed on the song `Stand My Ground`.[4] `Angels` is a song about betrayal. It deals with the fact that people one trusts often show themselves untrustworthy. Although the song is written through metaphors, as the band usually do, it was insipired by the record label disputes the band had with their previous label. The song starts with `a fragile falsetto from Sharon` and later builds `into an emotional, symphonic anthem`.[3] The song `Aquarius` addresses den Adel`s relation of love and fear with the ocean, a fear she developed after watching Jaws as a child.[7]
Track listing
Standard Edition
No. Title Lyrics Music Length
1. `Intro` Martijn Spierenburg 1:58
2. `See Who I Am`
Sharon den AdelRobert Westerholt
Spierenburg 4:52
3. `Jillian (I`d Give My Heart)`
den AdelWesterholt
Spierenburg 4:47
4. `Stand My Ground`
den AdelWesterholt
Daniel GibsonHan`some
4:26
5. `Pale`
den AdelWesterholt
Westerholt 4:28
6. `Forsaken`
den AdelWesterholt
den AdelWesterholt
4:54
7. `Angels`
den AdelWesterholt
den AdelSpierenburg
4:00
8. `Memories`
den AdelWesterholt
den AdelSpierenburg
3:51
9. `Aquarius`
den AdelWesterholt
GibsonHan`some
4:47
10. `It`s the Fear` den Adel Westerholt 4:07
11. `Somewhere`
den AdelWesterholt
den Adel 4:14
Total length: 46:24
12. video Stand My Ground

Personnel
Band members
Sharon den Adel - vocals
Robert Westerholt - rhythm guitar
Ruud Jolie - lead guitar
Jeroen van Veen - bass
Martijn Spierenburg - keyboards
Stephen van Haestregt - drums
Additional musicians
Isaac Muller, Siard de Jong - Celtic instruments
Ego Works session orchestra conducted by Felix Korobov
Choir conducted by Konstantin Majorov
Production
Daniel Gibson - producer
Stefan Helleblad - additional production, engineer
Stefan Glaumann, Håkan Fredriksson, Ola Sonmark - mixing
Bjorn Engelmann - mastering
Ego Works - production and recording of the orchestra