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The Bleed Out Tour is an ongoing concert tour by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation, in support of their eighth studio album, Bleed Out, which was released on 20 October 2023. The tour was announced on 4 October 2023, which included a European leg which is scheduled to happen from 5 October to 6 December 2024. Ticket sales for the European leg began on 6 October 2023 at 9am. Prior to the European leg, the band performed in Latin America in April 2024.




Background


After touring for promoting their seventh studio, Resist, Within Temptation were scheduled to embark on the co-headlining Worlds Collide with Evanescence in March and April 2020 and to perform a row of summer festivals later that year. At that time, the band already had plans for a new studio album, and were also planning on entering the studio soon. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all plans shifted. The co-headlining tour was postponed several times until it could finally happen in 2022, and the remaining festival concerts had to be canceled. It impacted the plans for a full-length studio album as well and, combined with a new marketing strategy for releasing new music, the band opted to start releasing a series of stand-alone singles during the pandemic.
As the pandemic safety measures started to get lifted in some countries and live concerts were being gradually allowed to happen, the band started to perform live again. Between 2021 and 2023, they played at summer festivals, toured as an opening act for Iron Maiden in their Legacy of the Beast World Tour, and concluded the tour with Evanescence. The band performed all of the recently released singles during that period, but did not officially do so as a means of promoting a new album, as it was not finished at that time.
The group's eighth studio album, Bleed Out, was announced on 18 August 2023. On 4 October, a few weeks prior to the album release date, a tour for supporting the record was then announced for 2024. The tour is currently scheduled to visit Latin America in April for selected festivals and then Europe from October to December for arena concerts. Besides the Latin American dates, the band decided not to play in any more festivals until the European arena leg of the tour. Since the announcement, extra concerts were added in Antwerp and Lisbon, and the concert in Oslo had its venue changed due to high selling tickets.
The concept of the tour and its stage setting and decoration started being planned in the beginning of 2024 by the band themselves. In an interview for Metal Hammer, lead vocalist Sharon den Adel, who has a bachelor degree in fashion design, commented that she was developing costumes for the tour alongside a Dutch company who utilizes certain species of mushrooms for making biodegradable clothing.




Critical reception


Critic Sofia Bergstrom from Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet praised the concert in Stockholm. In her four star review, she commended Within Temptation's stage presence, the openness in which the band addressed current topics throughout the songs that comprised the set list, and the duets between lead vocalist Sharon den Adel and guest vocalist Tarja Turunen.




Set list






= Latin America leg

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"The Reckoning"
"Faster"
"Bleed Out"
"Paradise (What About Us?)"
"Angels"
"Raise Your Banner"
"Wireless"
"Entertain You"
"Stand My Ground"
"Supernova"
"In the Middle of the Night"
"All I Need"
"Our Solemn Hour"
"Don't Pray for Me"
"The Cross"
"Mad World"
"What Have You Done"
"Never-ending Story" (acoustic)
"Ice Queen" (acoustic)
"Mother Earth"
Set list slightly varied between shows:
The order of some songs was altered slightly between concerts.
Set list length was sometimes decreased, due to the time of presentation of each band on a festival.




Tour dates






Personnel






= Within Temptation

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Sharon den Adel – vocals
Ruud Jolie – lead guitar
Stefan Helleblad – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Martijn Spierenburg – keyboards
Jeroen van Veen – bass guitar
Mike Coolen – drums




= Guest musicians

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Christoph Wieczorek – vocals and guitars on "Shed my Skin" at selected dates
Alex Yarmak – vocals on "A Fool's Parade" at selected dates
Tarja Turunen – vocals on "Paradise (What About Us?)", "I Feel Immortal", and "The Promise" at selected dates




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• The Kid Laroi
• Shadow of the Day
• From the Inside
• Linkin Park
• The Rolling Stones
• Slipknot
• Crossfade
• One Step Closer (lagu Linkin Park)
• Burgerkill
• Reveille
• Bleed Out Tour
• Bleed Out (Within Temptation album)
• Bleed It Out
• Bleed American
• Within Temptation
• Fall Out Boy
• Robert Westerholt
• Enter (Within Temptation album)
• Sharon den Adel
• Let It Bleed