Manzana

Manzana is a band from Tampere, Finland. Music they're playing is described as "melodic rockmetal". The band members are Piritta Lumous (vocals), Henri Wirsell (guitar, synths & backing vocals), Willy Mäkinen (bass) and Heikki Malmberg (drums). Heikki is also the drummer for finnish metal band called Diablo. Willy played bass with quite popular finnish band Bombfunk Mc's. Manzana's debute album Nothing as Whole as a Broken Heart was published in February 2007.

The band themselves describes their music: "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!"

Manzana or Típica Manzana was also a band of mixed Dutch/Dominican origin. They performed latin music from the Dominican Republic and made one full album, Tamborero and one joined album with Cita Con el Pasado. It was in the early '90s one of the top merengue bands in the Netherlands (both albums released on Zimbraz