Manzana means an apple. Forbidden, delicious, nutritious. fresh, tasty...
A Manzana a day keeps the doctor away!
Manzana is a pop-metal band from Tampere, Finland. The four of them have known each other for years, and feed musically from the 90´s grunge-alt-metal heritage. They make music that is dramatic, elastic, melodic and strong. The band came to life in the summer 2003, by Henkka, Heikki and Piritta. Ville joined the band a year later, and fit in perfectly. They played a bunch of gigs to test themselves, and released a promo EP Nothing a Whole As A Broken Heart in the summer 2005. Feedback was very good, and some labels were interested in signing them, but they didn't get a good enough deal with anyone. They decided to make an album with their own TRC-Records label.
"Manzana is about passion. We dream of making music that can be felt in your ass, in your throat, in your feet. Music that makes your head explode with energy, love end power. Music that makes you strong and proud. That..s how we wanna feel. Manzana means an apple. It..s fresh, sour ,juicy, fleshy. It feeds hunger. We are about passion and lust for life and music. We play cause we wanna play. We make 90..s melodic rockmetal. Again. We don..t care. As long as it feels right. To make the long story short, with or without music- we..d be in gutter. There..s nothing to loose. For you either!"
Falling to Pieces was released by TRC November 6 th 2006, and it hit the charts number 3 and 2. The Album Nothing As Whole As a Broken Heart came out on January 31st. 2007 and went on chart number 24. They also released a video for Falling To Pieces in February, and it went into Kids Top 20 video chart number 13 ,The album has been well and widely reviewed in the media, and Falling To Pieces has got some airplay in Finnish radios and TV.
The band has a reputation of intensive and groovy live performer, and they have a heavy live sound for a pop-metal band. The band has visited this year with interview &video at the Sub Tv Shows Rautaryhmä and Subbari, Lista-show( video only ), MTV 3 Kids Top Show, Voice Tv and Music Television Headbangers Ball. They´ve also attended at Yle X and Pommiradio. Small net radios have played Falling To Pieces in many countries, due to the bands My Space connections.
In Finland, www.noise.fi and pommiradio.fi were playing Manzana a long before the others, and now RadioRock took Falling To Pieces on their playlist, too.
The new album will be out in august 2008, and it is called "babies of revolution".the band is having a break from live actions now". Manzana released their debut album "Nothing As Whole As a Broken Heart " on january 2007, and it went on chart number 24, and single "falling to pieces " number 2. Manzanas debut album has been released in 25 countries now. Manzana toured finland, germany and switzerland on 2007.
Source : http://www.manzana.fi/?page=band&info=biography
