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Mother Earth is het tweede studioalbum van de Nederlandse symfonische metalband Within Temptation. Met Mother Earth ging de band een nieuwe kant op, zij lieten de grunt achterwege en maakten meer bombastische Keltische rock dan metal. De single Ice Queen werd geheel onverwacht een hit, hij was al een half jaar uit toen radio 3FM hem uitkoos als Megahit en het balletje ging rollen. Arjen Lucassen, bekend als de man achter onder andere Ayreon en Star One speelde de gitaarsolo in Dark Wings.

Mother Earth is the second studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation. Originally released on 24 December 2000 in the Netherlands, and 21 August 2001 in other parts of Europe. The album was licensed to be released in Germany and neighboring countries through GUN Records in January 2003 as a special extended edition with four bonus tracks. The same edition reached the United Kingdom through Sanctuary Records with a release in September 2004. The album was re-released by Roadrunner Records on 28 September 2007, with bonus live tracks. On 5 August 2008, Mother Earth along with The Silent Force was released in the United States on Roadrunner Records. On 17 December 2018, it was announced that the album would be rereleased on vinyl in January 2019.

The album features mainly fantasy and nature themes and was a sleeper hit in the band's heartland, entering the Dutch charts at number eighty-two, by the end of 2000, and only managing to reach its peak third position two years later with the second release of the single Ice Queen. The album later reached double platinum status in the Netherlands, platinum in Germany, and gold in Belgium. As of 2011, the album had reportedly sold 800,000 copies.