The New Within Temptation Album Will Feature Howard Jones, Tarja Turunen and… Dave Pirner and Xzibit?
I really don’t like Within Temptation, but I am now very excited for their new album, Hydra. Why? Because it has one of most bizarre lists of guest artists I’ve ever seen:
- Howard Jones (Devil You Know, Ex-Killswitch Engage)
- Tarja Turunen (ex-Nightwish)
- Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum)
- Xzibit
I honestly only know who Xzibit is because of that meme, and I didn’t even know Dave Pirner was still a thing. If you had presented me with two stories, one in which he was managing a Burger King in Minneapolis and one in which he was going to be on the new Within Temptation album, and asked me which one was true and which one was a lie, I would have guessed that the Burger King story was true. So absent has Mr. Pirner been from my awareness for the past twenty years that you might as well have added him to the “Runaway Train” video.
So, FUCK YEAH, I’m gonna listen to Hydra when it comes out. It’s going to be SO GODDAMN STRANGE, it should, at the very least, be interesting.
Hydra comes out in 2014 in North America via Nuclear Blast.
[via Metal Underground; thanks to Will K. for the tip]