THE BAND : CURRENT MEMBERS
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SHARON DEN ADEL (SINGER) Full Name: Sharon Janny den Adel Date of Birth: July 12th, 1974 Band Memberships: Within Temptation (1996-Present) Instruments: Vocals. Favorite Music: Arid, Tori Amos, Heather Nova, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Bjork, Alanis Morisette, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, A Perfect Circle, Ayreon, The Verve, Orphanage, Annie Lennox, Enigma, HIM, Bob Marley. Favorite Movies: X-Men, Braveheart, Interview with a Vampire, Dracula, Legends of the Fall, Sleepy Hollow, Grease, Dumb and Dumber, Dances With Wolves. |
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ROBERT WESTERHOLT (GUITARIST) Full Name: Robert Westerholt Date of Birth: January 2nd, 1975 Band Memberships: The Circle (1992-1993) Voyage (1994-1995) Within Temptation (1996-Present) Instruments: Guitar, Keyboard, PC Favorite Music: Tori Amos, Paradise Lost, Rhapsody, Iron Maiden, and much more. Favorite Movies: X-Men, Braveheart, The Matrix. |
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JEROEN VAN VEEN (BASSIST) Full Name: Jeroen van Veen Date of Birth: October 26th, 1974 Band Memberships: The Circle (1992-1993) Voyage (1994-1995) Within Temptation (1996-Present) Instruments: Bass, Drums Favorite Music: Progressive-, Symphonic-, Guitar-Rock Favorite Movies: American Beauty, Twelve Monkeys, American History X, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Leon (The Professional), Quentin Tarantino movies, Monthy Python movies, Dogma, and a lot of Sci-Fi and Horror movies. |
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RUUD JOLIE (GUITARIST) Full Name: Ruudolf Andrianus Jolie Date of Birth: April 19th, 1976 Band Memberships: Brotherhood Foundation (1991-1999) Vals Licht (Early 2001) Within Temptation (2001-Present) Instruments: Guitar, Drums (a little), Bass, Keyboard Favorite Music: Spock's Beard, Pain of Salvation, Incubus, Tori Amos, Ryan Adams, Renaissance, Cynic, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Nine Inch Nails, Tribal Tech, Lucinda Williams. Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, God's Lonely Man, The Virgin Suicides, The Sixth Sense. |
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MARTIJN SPIERENBURG (KEYBOARDIST) Full Name: Martijnus Everardus Spierenburg Date of Birth: January 30th, 1975 Band Memberships: The Circle (1992-1993) Voyage (1994-1995) Within Temptation (2001-Present) Instruments: Keyboard Favorite Music: "I like a lot, and I also dislike a lot. So I can't really give one answer..." Favorite Movies: The Matrix. |
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STEPHEN HAESTREGT (DRUMMER) Full Name: Stephen van Haestregt Date of Birth: September 12th, 1972 Band Memberships: Orphanage (1993-1995) Ambeon (2000-2001) Within Temptation (2002-Present) Instruments: Drums Favorite Music: Unknown Favorite Movies: Unknown |
FORMER MEMBERS
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MARTIJN WESTERHOLT (FORMER KEYBOARDIST) Full Name: David Martijn Westerholt Date of Birth: March 30th, 1979 Instruments: Synths and Keyboard Band Memberships: Within Temptation (1996-2001) Delain (2002-Present) Favorite Music: Nightwish "Once" album, "What Have You Done" by Within Temptation, Marillion, The Police, Ayreon, Alan Parson's Project, Queensryche, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rhapsody, Abba, Spock's Beard and a few gothic bands Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings (all 3 parts), Star Trek First Contact, The Star Wars Saga, Braveheart, everything of Monty Python, and the Transformers movie Other notes: Martijn Westerholt is the younger brother of Within Temptation guitarist and co-founder Robert Westerholt. (Pictured as a member of Delain) |
| No Photo Available | MICHIEL PAPENHOVE (FORMER GUITARIST) Full Name: Date of Birth: June 1st, 1975 Band Memberships: Voyage (1994-1995) Within Temptation (1996-2001) Project Lynchpin (2002) The J.I.M. Generator Instruments: Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboard (a little) Favorite Music: Incubus, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Weezer, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Green Lizard, Satanic Surfers, Adhesive, Meshuggah Favorite Movies: "This is probably pretty sad, but have a look at the list Jeroen made up for this item and you kind of have my list. We have the same taste." |
| No Photo Available | JELLE BAKKER (FORMER GUITARIST) Full Name: Date of Birth: Band Memberships: Within Temptation (2001) Instruments: Guitar Favorite Music: Unknown Favorite Movies: Unknown |
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IVAR DE GRAAF (FORMER DRUMMER) Full Name: Date of Birth: August 20th, 1973 Band Memberships: Within Temptation (1996-1997 and 1999-2001) The J.I.M. Generator The Saturnine (2005) Kingfisher Sky (2005-Present) (Pictured as a member of Kingfisher Sky) Instruments: Drums, Guitar, Bass, Snakecharmer Favorite Music: Spock's Beard, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Crosby Stills and Nash, Jethro Tull, Peter Gabriel, Pantera, Nik Kershaw, The Bass Vikings, Allan Holdsworth, A Perfect Circle and many others. Favorite Movies: X-Men, Braindead, Sleepy Hollow, Pulp Fiction, Life of Brian, American Beauty, Fight Club, Apocalypse Now, Fargo, Godfather trilogy, Taxi Driver, and many others. |
| No Photo Available | RICHARD WILLEMSE (FORMER DRUMMER) Full Name: Date of Birth: Band Memberships: Barton Dean Still No Ejaculate Near Dark Broken Hope Within Temptation (1996) Fokkum en Meer Instruments: Drums Favorite Music: Gorilla Biscuits, Uniform Choice, Satanic Surfers, Social Unrest, (old) RKL, Jerry's kids, Adrenalin OD, 7-seconds, Trigger Happy, 5 Days Off, Against Time, Undeclinable Ambuscade, Astream, Belvedere, Up-Front, Blatant Yobs, Body Jar, Craig's Brother, Everfresh, Grey Area, Ten Foot Pole, Hard-ons, Ignite, Intensity, Flatcat, In My Eyes, Barton Dean, Spermbirds, Still no, Mock orange, Of No Avail, Propagandhi, Rise Against, Section 8, Slick Shoes, Whippersnapper, The Black Panthys Party, Break The Silence, Much The Same, First Class, Crivits, Strike Anywhere, Suicidal Tendencies, Yellowcard, Strebers. Favorite Movies: Unknown |
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DENNIS LEEFLANG (FORMER DRUMMER) Full Name: Date of Birth: May 22nd, 1979 Band Memberships: Within Temptation (1996) Sun Caged (1999-2004) The Saturnine (2003-Present) Drumming for Bumblefoot (2004-Present) Instruments: Drums Favorite Music: Unknown Favorite Movies: Unknown |
| No Photo Available | CIRO PALMA (FORMER DRUMMER) Full Name: Date of Birth: Band Memberships: Zenomorph (1994-1995) Within Temptation (1998) The Saturnine (2006) Instruments: Drums Favorite Music: Unknown Favorite Movies: Unknown |