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| | TWAS 394: Nightwish, Flowing Tears, Entwine, Kotipelto |
 | | Flowing Tears have neither the exaggerated gothic bent of Lacuna Coil nor the hard-rock exuberance of Lullacry, and they're not a fl-, death-, doom-, power- or speed-metal band, which leaves them, for me, in a weird and intriguing limbo between subgenres. |
 | | The definitive demonstration here might be "The Pit", which opens with a muttering synth riff somewhere between drum and bass and Jean Michel Jarre, only to bury it after twenty seconds and launch into deadpan metal churn, a six-piece band doing their best to sound like a power trio. |
 | | Most of the time, in fact, Entwine sound very much like Flowing Tears, the difference between Mika Tauriainen's male vocals and Duchêne's female ones discernible but not profoundly character-altering. |
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