Great news! You can now view a clip off of the new DVD Black Symphony! Through this link you can watch and hear Our Solemn Hour. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do!

Black Symphony will be released on double-DVD, double-CD and Blu-Ray disc on September 22nd. As mentioned earlier, it will contain the full concert we did at the Ahoy Rotterdam together with the 60-piece Metropole Orchestra and a 30-voice classical choir, as well as on-stage stilt performers, costume changes, and an array of stunning pyrotechnic, lighting effects and a 400m2 video screen with great WT visuals. The DVD will also contain a lot of extra footage from the show in Beursgebouw, amongst other bonus materials. More info on this will follow soon!

Great news! WT has been nominated for a Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award in the category ‘Best Breakthrough Artist’. Of course it would be great if they’d win this award! You can all vote through this link: http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/gods/. To confirm your vote you can click on ‘submit vote’ on the bottom of the form. Thanks for your support!

About a year ago WT was approached by number-1 DJ of the world Armin van Buuren for a possible cooperation. Due to a lack of time nothing could be produced or written at the time. Sharon is always looking for a new challenge and as you might know she has a broad musical interest. Now WT is starting with the creative process for the next album Sharon decided to contact Armin as well. By that time he was busy finalizing his new album „Imagine“, but he did send her one track. She started working on it and wrote lyrics & a melody line for the song. Then they recorded the song which resulted in „In and Out of Love“. The song became one of Armin's favourite tracks on the album, which will be released this Saturday.

You've already been waiting for it for a while, but finally we can announce the winners of the signed WT calendars! Since we couldn't make a choice, the winners have randomly been selected from the photos we received, and they are:

Yolanda Bergers from Noord-Wijk (Netherlands)
Ron Bennet from Danville, KY (United States)
Maarit Haataja from Lahti (Finland)

The winners will receive their prize as soon as possible. Congratulations. All photos we received have been added to the new 'Me & WT' section of the site, that you can find by going to 'Interactive' and then clicking on 'Me & WT'. Do you also have a nice photograph of yourself with one or more band members, but you're not in the gallery yet? You can still send your photo to info@thesilentforce.com!

As promised we have a cool online contest for you again! This time you have the chance to win 1 of 3 signed WT calendars, and you won't even have to be original or creative this time! The only thing you have to do is to submit your best photo with one (or more of course) of the WT band members. If you do so before March 2008 you automatically have the chance to win this prize.

Attention! Only The Silent Force members can participate in this competition and you can only send in one photo per member. Submitted photos will become the property of The Silent Force and will be published on the site. Correspondence concerning the outcome of this contest is not possible.

The nicest entries for the e-cards competition have been added to the site. You can find them by going to Interactive - E-cards. This also means the lucky winners of a signed copy of the Special Edition of The Heart Of Everything can be announced:

Amanda Lindner (Australia)
Caroline Drouin (France)
Jennifer Johnson (United States)
Ana Coroas (Portugal)
Sarah Barker (United Kingdom)

The winners will receive their prize as soon as possible. Congratulations. In a few days there will be a new online competition, so don't forget to visit us again soon!

THOE Special Edition
Marielle Rooijakkers (Netherlands)
Fabio Rigamonti (Italy)
Andrea Sangemino (USA)
Ellen van de Laar (Netherlands)
Javier Tendero Salazar (Spain)

2 Tickets for the Beursgebouw concert:
John Mues (Belgium)
Lenny van Dooren (Netherlands)
Jochem Kornalijnslijper (Netherlands)
Elmira Engel (Netherlands)

Congratulations! We hope the winners of the tickets have enjoyed the show. Those of you who have won a CD will receive their prize as soon as possible.

As you probably know a special edition of The Heart Of Everything has been released last week. Apart from the regular CD this version contains a DVD on which you will find live footage from WT's show in Japan as well as videos belonging to singles that have been released from THOE.

In cooperation with SonyBMG we now offer you the chance to win 1 of 5 copies of this special edition. Additionally we're giving away 2 tickets for the concert WT will be doing in Eindhoven next Saturday. Send an e-mail to beursgebouw@thesilentforce.com explaining why you should be the one to win. Don't forget your name and address. Be quick, because you can only participate until Friday November 23rd 18:00 CET.

The story keeps getting better and better! Last week, WT received a World Music Award! These awards are based on record sales outside your own country and WT won it again. Additionally the have won an MTV Europe Music Award in the category “Best Dutch & Belgian act”. This makes a total of 5 awards this month, after 2 Dutch and 1 Belgium TMF Awards. Thank you so much for your vote!

The winner of the Delain contest is Mandy Meijer from Rotterdam (Netherlands). She has already received her tickets. Have fun tonight!