Black Symphony captures the concert Within Temptation gave at Ahoy Rotterdam in February 2008, backed by the Metropole Orchestra and a choir. The orchestral side that was already present on the studio albums gets real strings and brass here, in a set including Mother Earth, Ice Queen, Stand My Ground and What Have You Done. The recordings were also released that year on DVD and CD.

This edition is a 3-LP on orange and black split vinyl.