Recording One week after they signed with
DSFA Records, Within Temptation started recording
Enter. The tracks were new versions of demo tracks. It was recorded in Studio Moskou,
Utrecht, and it was completed and mixed within three weeks. Robert Westerholt remembers that "it was incomparable to the first recordings we did earlier, this one was much more professional. After all a nice experience, but a very quick one. 'Enter' was recorded in two weeks and mixed in three days, so it was very difficult for we couldn't take time to develop songs. But it was a nice experience - it was our first album!"
Style The album's style "sits between gothic metal and doom" The album, along with
The Dance were re-released in the US on 18 September 2007 by the label
Season of Mist. After the great reception of later albums and the
Hydra World Tour,
Nuclear Blast decided to release a together re-issue of both
Enter and
The Dance on 10 November 2014, in order to give the new listeners access to the band's early material. By the end of 2018, the band released the album for the first time on
vinyl format. It then entered the
Dutch Vinyl Charts on number 6. ==Track listing==