Entwine

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Entwine
Entwine at Kuopio Rockcock 2008
Entwine at Kuopio Rockcock 2008
General information
Genre (s) Dark rock , heavy metal
founding 1995
Website http://www.entwine.org/
Founding members
Tom Mikkola
Teppo Taipale (until 1999)
Aki Hanttu
Current occupation
singing
 Mika Tauriainen (since 2000)
guitar
 Jaani Kähkönen (since 2002)
guitar
 Tom Mikkola
bass
 Joni Miettinen (since 2000)
Drums
 Aki Hanttu
former members
guitar
 Panu Willman (1997-1999)
Riitta Heikkonen (1998-2006)

Entwine is a dark rock band from Finland . They publish their albums on Spikefarm Records and Century Media .

history

Singer Mika Tauriainen at a Entwine show in January 2007

Entwine was founded in 1995 by Aki Hanttu, Teppo Taipale and Tom Mikkola. At first the band played death metal . Two years later, the band decided to change the style and continue as a dark rock formation. With Panu Willman a second guitarist was engaged. In December 1997 the band recorded their demo Divine Infinity . Two months later, keyboardist Riitta Heikkonen joined the band.

In September 1999, the debut album The Treasures Within Hearts was released . In April 2000, Panu Willman (later with Before the Dawn ) and Teppo Taipale left the band. Joni Miettinen became the new bass player. A month later, Mika Tauriainen, a new singer, joined the band. In April 2001 the second album Gone was released , which was named “Album of the Month” by the German Metal Hammer magazine. The single New Dawn became the band's first Top 10 hit. At the end of the year Jaani Kähkönen became the new live guitarist. A short time later he became a permanent member of the band.

The third album Time of Despair was released in 2002 . Entwine toured Europe with the Theater of Tragedy and Ram-Zet . With the fourth album Dieversity , released in 2004, the band changed their sound a bit. Some dark rock roots have been dropped and the music is harder overall. This direction was also retained on the fifth album Fatal Design , released in 2006. Keyboard player Riitta Heikkonen left the band in December 2006 to have more time for her private life. The band decided not to fill Heikkonen and continue as a quintet.

On January 28th, 2009 the Entwine studio album called Painstained was released.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Gone
  FI 18th 04/2001 (5 weeks)
Time Of Despair
  FI 24 15/2002 (2 weeks)
DIEversity
  FI 11 11/2004 (3 weeks)
Fatal design
  FI 11 35/2006 (3 weeks)
Painstained
  FI 9 06/2009 (1 week)
Chaotic Nation
  FI 28 41/2015 (2 weeks)
Singles
New Dawn
  FI 10 52/2000 (6 weeks)
The pit
  FI 6th 12/2002 (4 weeks)
Bittersweet
  FI 3 07/2004 (3 weeks)
Sliver
  FI 11 33/2005 (1 week)
Surrender
  FI 6th 32/2006 (2 weeks)
Chameleon Halo
  FI 15th 45/2006 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1999: The Treasures Within Hearts
  • 2001: Gone
  • 2002: Time of Despair
  • 2004: DIEversity
  • 2006: Fatal Design
  • 2009: Painstained
  • 2015: Chaotic Nation

Singles and EPs

  • 2000: New Dawn ( single )
  • 2002: The Pit (single)
  • 2004: Bitter Sweet (single)
  • 2005: Sliver ( EP )
  • 2006: Surrender (single)
  • 2006: Chameleon Halo (single)
  • 2010: Save Your Sins (single)
  • 2015: Plastic World (single)

Compilations

  • 2010: Rough 'n' Stripped

swell

  1. ↑ a b finnishcharts.com: Entwine in the Finnish charts

Web links

Commons : Entwine  - album with pictures, videos and audio files