The Heart of Everything World Tour was a concert tour by Dutch

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band Within Temptation in support of their fourth album, ''

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''.

Background

''The Heart of Everything Tour'' was the first world tour for the band, in which they visited South American countries, as Brazil, Argentina and Chile for the first time. The band also performed at several large European festivals, such as Pinkpop,

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and Download which helped the band to reach the status of a mainstream band throughout Europe, as The Heart of Everything appeared in several European charts. The band started their very first U.S. tour a few months after the European release. The band opted to present itself on metal festivals as also on mainstream festivals, due to the diversity they presents throughout their discography. of ''The Heart of Everything'', supporting

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, and appearing alongside

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, The Gathering, and Kylesa. The tour, dubbed

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. Lead vocalist Sharon den Adel classified it more of an "introductional" tour, as ''The Heart of Everything'' was not released in the United States yet. And, with the release of ''The Heart of Everything'' on 24 July 2007, the band decided to kick off their first headlining US tour in Fall 2007. The band played 13 shows, starting on 5 September 2007, in Boston and ended on 23 September 2007, in Tempe, Arizona. At the end of 2007, the band professionally recorded a sold-out show for 8,000 visitors at the Beursgebouw, in The Netherlands, for a possible future DVD. On 7 February 2008, the band performed a special show accompanied by The Metropole Orchestra, the Pa'dam Choir, and special guests including George Oosthoek (ex- Orphanage), Anneke van Giersbergen of

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and

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of Life of Agony filmed by 14 HD cameras at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, with an attendance of 10.000 people. This recording was later released as the main show of the Black Symphony DVD, and some parts of the show in Eindhoven came as an extra on the second disc of some editions of the album. Both shows featured special stage effects like explosions, pyro and fireworks.

Setlist

Tour dates

Personnel

Within Temptation

* Sharon den Adel – vocals * Robert Westerholt – rhythm guitar * Ruud Jolie – lead guitar *

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– keyboards * Jeroen van Veen – bass guitar *

Stephen van Haestregt Stephen van Haestregt (born 12 September 1972 in Westdorpe) is a Dutch drummer, best known as the drummer of the Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation until his departure in 2010. During the mid-late 1990s,Van Haestregt was drummer with ...

– drums

Guest musicians

* Anneke van Giersbergen – featured vocals on "Somewhere" on 24 November 2007 and 7 February 2008 *

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– featured vocals on "The Other Half (Of Me)" on 24 November 2007 and 7 February 2008 *

– featured vocals on "What Have You Done" on 7 February 2008

References

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