Let Us Burn

I finally broke down and got the new Within Temptation CD, Hydra the other day.


I love Within Temptation. One reason I love them so much is their music is so dramatic--damned near every song could serve as the soundtrack for any number of films. In fact, I imagine quite a few of their tunes as the soundtrack to the stuff that I write.


Their music also inspires me. Just sitting and listening to it causes ideas to come to me, to begin to coalesce into something that may or may not be worth developing. The inherent worth of the ideas is not the issue--it's the fact that the ideas come when I'm listening to this music.


That's the highest compliment, I think, an artist can pay to another one, by the way--when you as an artist can tell another artist that you find his or her work inspiring in your own work.


And speaking of being inspired, this CD--specifically, the first track, "Let us Burn"--has convinced me that this would be good material for a musical drama. Unfortunately, at .the moment I lack the time and resources to put something like that together, but there is a wealth of material here to create a pretty interesting story to go along with a lot of tunes that were just made to be presented in a setting like that. Maybe one day I'll be able to do something like this. I'd love to give it a shot.


If you don't believe me, check this CD out for yourself. Hell, just go to You Tube and listen to them. See if their music inspires you as much as it does me.