Angels (Within Temptation song)

Infobox Single
Name = Angels


Artist = Within Temptation
from Album = The Silent Force
B-side = "Say My Name"
Released = June 13 2005
Format = CD single, DigitalDownload
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Symphonic metal
Length = 04:02
Label = Roadrunner Records
Writer = Robert Westerholt, Martijn Spierenburg, Sharon den Adel
Producer = Daniel Gibson
Last single = "Memories"
(2005)
This single = "Angels"
(2005)
Next single = "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)"
(2005)

"Angels" is the third single of Dutch rock 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)
#"Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
#"Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)

;CD single (3 track)
#"Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
#"Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)
#"Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:54)

;CD Multi single (5 track) - BeNeLux/Germany
#"Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
#"Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)
#"Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:54)
#"The Promise" - Live In 013, Tilburg (7:59)
#"Angels" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:12)

;CD single + DVD
#"Angels" - Full Length Version (4:02)
#"Say My Name" - New Track (4:06)
#"Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:54)
#"The Promise" - Live In 013, Tilburg (7:59)
#"Angels" - Live In 013, Tilburg (4:12)
#"The Promise" - Live In 013, Tilburg and Paradiso, Amsterdam
#"Angels" - Live In 013, Tilburg and Paradiso, Amsterdam
#"Forsaken" - Live In 013, Tilburg and Paradiso, Amsterdam
#Videoclip Angels
#Within Temptation in Dubai

The song will be shipped to American rock radio on July 29th, 2007.

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 demonic 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 seemingly overpowers her with chloroform. He takes a tied up Sharon to the middle of the desert to bury her alive. However, Sharon is revealed to be one of the angels, who was left at the side of the road as bait for the serial killer, during which time 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

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