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by Frankingsteins - written on 12/01/08 (Very useful, 32 readings)
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Finland once again proves its peculiar talent for producing accessible rock music mixing elements of metal with romance-obsessed pop that, from any other country, would seem like a ludicrous throwback. Here, it hardly does at all. Lying in an interesting position between the goth-pop-hard-rock-glam-crap of HIM and the more consistently metallic Sonata Arctica, the driving force of Sonata's Jani Liimatainen on guitars and keyboards prevents this from ever being dismissed as a throwaway HIM clone, however hard Taage Laiho tries to convince us otherwise. Laiho's vocals mainly lie in the middle range designed to make young goth girls cry-clean their mascara, and ...
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