金属乐队 Entwine(盘绕)他们的音乐很明亮和旋律化。他们创立了自己的音乐风格。个人感觉这种金属很特别...之后他们以队名“Entwine”(盘绕)制作了他们的大气的金属作品。反响很好,他们由一支地下乐队变得很知名... 1995年3月,鼓手Aksu Hanttu、吉他手兼主唱T-I Mikkola和贝司手T.Taipale在一起玩音乐,那时乐队的名字和现在不同,他们玩的也是一种美式死亡金属。 慢慢地,他们感觉这种音乐很无聊,他们的音乐变得很明亮和旋律化。两年后他们创立了自己的音乐风格。但是,他们需要一个新的歌手、一个吉他手和一个键盘手。1997年秋天,新歌手和次席吉他手P.Willman加入到乐队,同年12月他们以队名“Entwine”(盘绕)制作了他们的第一张唱片"Divine Infinity",唱片包含四首歌,是很大气的金属作品。反响很好,他们由一支地下乐队变得很知名。1998年2月,Riitta Heikkonen来到乐队担任键盘手,他们开始在很多演出现场露面。 1999年9月,乐队的处女专辑"The treasures within hearts"发行,来自全世界的反响非常好。2000年4月队员Willman 离开乐队,同时乐队决定更换贝司手。2000年3月,新歌手 Mika 和新贝司手Joni Miettinen加入乐队。三个月后,Entwine乐队进入录音室录制新专辑"Gone"。
by Andy Hinds
Hailing from Finland are Entwine, a gothic metal quintet specializing in a darkly melodic and richly textured form of heavy pop music. The group began as a three-piece death metal outfit in the spring of 1995; that early lineup, consisting of Aki Hanttu (drums), Tom Mikkola (guitar and vocals), and T. Taipale (bass), gradually began incorporating more melodic and textural dimensions to their music, moving further away from death metal and into more conventional pop territory. After a few lineup changes, which included the addition of a second guitarist, P. William, Entwine produced its first demo tape, the four-song Divine Infinity, in 1997. By the time keyboardist Riita Heikkonen joined the band's ranks in 1998, Divine Infinity's atmospheric metal had earned the group a buzz of interest in the underground press, not to mention a growing horde of fans. Entwine's first proper full-length album, The Treasures Within Hearts, was released to continued acclaim in September of 1999, although the group's lineup was still in a state of flux. Willman and Taipale split in April 2000, the latter being replaced by Joni Meittinen. A new lead singer, Mika Tauriainen, entered the picture in May of 2000 and gave the band its most commercial appeal thus far. With a warm yet occasionally edgy singing style strongly reminiscent of Alice in Chains' Layne Staley, Tauriainen's voice was the perfect fit for Entwine's increasingly melodic and pop-based goth metal. The retooled Entwine entered Astia A-Studio late in 2000 (following three months' worth of rehearsal and woodshedding) and, with producer Anssi Kippo (Children of Bodom, Sinergy) at the controls, recorded the full-length Gone. Century Media released the record in 2001 and it quickly found a place in the Finnish pop charts, settling at number 25 while the single "New Dawn" raced to number ten on the singles chart. They went back to the same studios soon after and jumped back into the writing process. The end result, Time of Despair, was a far more alternative sounding record that shaved away many of their gloomier tendencies in exchange for simpler songwriting and more direct melodies.