"Last of the Stories of Long Past Glories," the first full-length from Finland's Sinisthra, is out now on Arise Records. The band, whose frontman, Tomi Joutsen, recently completed his first tour as Amorphis vocalist, describe their music as "basically metal, drawing from a wide source of different influences and blending them to a sound that can't really be compared to any one single band. An apt description would be metal with all the most common metal clichés removed." A teaser from the album and full songs from Sinisthra's critically acclaimed 2004 demo "Empty Banalities Adorned with Dashing Eloquence" (comprising earlier versions of 3 songs from the new album) can be downloaded at http://www.sinisthra.com
