Vanity Beach might be the coolest thing to come out of Finland since… Well, forever maybe. The Helsinki gang obviously has an impressive record collection and charmingly they are not afraid to borrow heavily from any band they like and mix and match everything without concerning themselves with genres and time periods.

Vanity Beach therefore sounds like – and I’ll try to describe it in as few words as possible – goth rock with industrial and New Romantic-tendencies and the swagger of Mötley Crüe, the nihilism of Nine Inch Nails, the eccentricity of Rammstein and the coolness of Depeche Mode… Or something to that effect.

The Fins have made quite a name for themselves in their native country without any help from record companies or managers. What’s even more cool is that they keep getting better and better. Their self-released debut album ‘Nights of the New’ is pretty good, and the 2006 EP ‘Venegance’ is even better. Their newest songs on this EP, ‘Garden of Cruelty’, however, are brilliant. Find a room full of depressed goth kids who will roll their black painted eyes at anything, put on the track ‘Garden of Cruelty’ and we assure you everyone will go ape shit. As will you.

The groups first major label album is due late August/early September and will be produced by Johnny Lee Michaels of The 69 Eyes fame.

Genre: Industrial/New Romantic
Who: Vanity Beach
Title: Garden of Cruelty (EP)
Label: Innovation Records
Year: 2007
Country: Finland
Language: English
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Recommended tracks:
Garden of Cruelty – Bitch In a Body Bag – Batcave (We Come Out At Night)