Angels (Within Temptation song)

"Angels"
Single by Within Temptation from the album The Silent Force
B-side	"Say My Name"
Released	June 13 2005
Format	CD single, DigitalDownload
Recorded	2004
Genre	Gothic Rock/Rock/Symphonic metal
Length	04:02
Label	Roadrunner Records
Writer	Robert Westerholt, Martijn Spierenburg, Sharon den Adel
Producer	Daniel Gibson
Within Temptation singles chronology
"Memories" (2005) "Angels" (2005) "What Have You Done" (2007)

Angels is the third single of the Dutch band Within Temptation from their album The Silent Force. It peaked at #9 in Finland and #11 in the Netherlands.

Tracklisting

CD single (2 track)

1. "Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
2. "Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)

CD single (3 track)

1. "Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
2. "Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)
3. "Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:54)

CD Multi single (5 track) - BeNeLux/Germany

1. "Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
2. "Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)
3. "Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:54)
4. "The Promise" - Live In 013, Tilburg (7:59)
5. "Angels" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:12)

CD single + DVD

1. "Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
2. "Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)
3. "Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:54)
4. "The Promise" - Live In 013, Tilburg (7:59)
5. "Angels" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:12)
6. "The Promise" - Live In 013, Tilburg and Paradiso, Amsterdam
7. "Angels" - Live In 013, Tilburg and Paradiso, Amsterdam
8. "Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg and Paradiso, Amsterdam
9. Videoclip Angels
10. Within Temptation in Dubai

The video

The video is shot in a desert in Spain. It tells the story of a group of vigilante angels who make it their mission to wipe out evil. Sharon den Adel is a woman who has been seemingly abandoned on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. She accepts a lift from a priest, who takes her back to his home. The priest is in fact a serial killer, who adopts different disguises to get to his victims. All of these disguises are trustworthy people, like a doctor or a priest. As Sharon stumbles upon a board full of newspaper clippings in the killers home, which are about his previous victims, he overpowers her with chloroform. He takes a tied up Sharon to the middle of the desert to bury her alive. However, the rest of the vigilantes appear and the killer is confronted with the spirits of his victims, who destroy him. The vigilantes then move onto their next target. The theme to the 1979 film Phantasm is sampled.

Charts

Sharon den Adel performing "Angels" on tour in 2007.

References

1. ^ [1] "Within Temptation - Angels"
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