Manzana

Effortless, polished and toxically good - those are the adjectives that roughly sum up the third flight up the pop-metal scale of standards by the Finnish quartet Manzana.

What do you get when you drop vocals with a punk-ish twang into metal, vocals that absolutely have to come off as grating or annoying? "Fake" metal. A double-edged sword that can only end in huge success or total ridicule. Be careful.