Cantata Sangui

Just when you thought you'd seen it all...along comes Finland's Cantata Sangui -- a heavy metal band with no guitar players! "Heresy!" you screech, slamming shut the lid to your casket for emphasis, and indeed horror and disbelief seem like the only reasonable responses until one is exposed to the surprisingly effective, severely overdriven, and reassuringly loud six-string placebo propagated by five-stringer Tuomas Tunturituuli and four-stringer Juha Vilhunen (who replaced longtime member Mika A.A. Hyytinen in 2008). Completed by lead singer Anna Pienimäki, male vocalist Kari...