"What have you done now", Within Temptation? Will this guest addition of Keith Caputo for a second narrator in "What Have You Done" set a precedent for future songs? Will you use some of your songs to be some of what Evanescence used to be with their songs like "Tourniquet"?
If Within Temptation does decide to continue exploring such more specific dark times in peoples' relationships with both parties speaking, I won't mind. Though distinctly different than songs like "Angels" that were on The Silent Force, it's still noticeably consistent with the band. Within Temptation is growing rather than stagnating, more interested in producing good music (that happens to be gothic rock) rather than catering to fans who flock to a specific tone produced at any one point.
That sounds like Within Temptation songs all sound the same, which isn't true, but "What Have You Done?" leads the way on The Heart of Everything with Sharon Den Adel's vocal shifts and focus on her lower range better for karaoke than the soaring heights she stuck to on The Silent Force. Even listeners who pay attention can mistake Sharon Den Adel's varying voice for two different people in The Heart of Everything.
The two narrators, Sharon Den Adel and Keith Caputo accuse "What Have You Done?". The girl bemoans her lost love as she flees his drunken rages. "Would you mind if I tried to (kill) you 'cause you have turned into my worst enemy?" One point of the lyrics is a awkward in light of the general poetry of the lines ("You carry hate that I don't feel"), making me wish they'd worked on that a bit more. Nonetheless, the band is Dutch, so it's possible it might be a translation issue.
There are two versions of this song, but they are very similar. The only differences I could hear were the intro music and the bridge, but they don't change any of the song's beauty. The "Rock Remix" version merely seems to have those softer elements cut out to make it all metal. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
Some Within Temptation fans have complained at this single, suggesting the band has followed Evanescence's The Open Door with a heartbreaking plummet in quality. "What Have You Done?" does use a lot of cymbal in one part of "What Have You Done?", as Evanescence often used in The Open Door, but that's only a minor element of the song. Overall, it's still the multilayered beauty that caught my attention to this band to begin with. This song does use more violin than I've heard from this band before. That doesn't change its genre from the gothic rock, even if this is leaning on the rock end. It's a promising first single to be released in the U.S. this July for the internationally-popular Within Temptation.
Music: 5/5
Vocalist(s): 5/5
Overall: 9/10
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