"Save Ukraine - #StopWar" united more than 20 countries and bring together more than 50 participants. In March 2022, WITHIN TEMPTATION was one of the artists who took part in a telethon concert in support of Ukraine.
And hopefully - we wanna keep this a little bit alive in our own small way by writing about it and talking about it and waving a flag on stage about it." I think we should be aware of the fact that this is a danger for all of us.
And a couple of hours flying from my home, it's already Kyiv. They already said, they're not gonna stop at Ukraine they're gonna go further. I really believe what some people are saying - it's really our war as well. It's just we're storytellers - it's like amplifying a certain kind of emotion that people could feel in this situation."Īsked how she and her bandmates decided to use Russia's invasion of Ukraine as inspiration for one of their songs, Sharon said: "Well, from my point of view, it's not just their war. The Dutch singer continued: "So that's what we try to do - maybe also shine a light on certain situations within the war. And in front of you, you have a mission impossible almost." You can't go forward, you can't go backward because you have your buddies next to you and you'll all die in the field. And then he finds that he can't go back because he's already in his army gear, for instance. It's about a soldier going to war and thinking he's going to liberate people, do good stuff and be a hero and everything, but then he finds out that he's been lied to by media but also government. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "When the war started in the Ukraine, we were in the studio writing songs, And it's one of the songs that we wrote. In a new interview with James Wilson-Taylor of Rock Sound conducted at this weekend's Download festival in the United Kingdom, WITHIN TEMPTATION frontwoman Sharon Den Adel spoke about the lyrical inspiration for the band's latest single, "Wireless".
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