Ice Queen (song)

"Ice Queen"
Single by Within Temptation
from the album Mother Earth
B-side	"Mother Earth" "World of Make Believe" "Caged" "Believer"
Released	June 2001
Recorded	2000
Genre	Symphonic metal gothic metal
Length	5:20 (album version) 3:50 (radio edit)
Label	DSFA GUN (re-releases)
Songwriter(s)	Robert Westerholt Sharon den Adel
Within Temptation singles chronology
"Our Farewell" (2001) "Ice Queen" (2001) "Mother Earth" (2003)

"Ice Queen" is a song by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. It was released in June 2001 as the second single from their second studio album Mother Earth. The song was the band's commercial breakthrough, and it remains one of the band's most successful songs to date in Europe. It has been featured on the annual Dutch Top 2000 since 2011.^[1]

Along with the singles "Mother Earth," "Angels," and "Stand My Ground", "Ice Queen" has become one of the band's signature songs and is played as ending song on the setlist on almost every concert, except for some shows of The Unforgiving Tour onwards, where they started to end with the songs "Mother Earth" or "Stairway to the Skies".