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There's a certain stereotype that, much in the way that all symphonic metal bands are Nightwish clones, all gothic metal bands are Evanescence clones. You need only look around this category to understand how demented a reduction that is, but if there's one band in this category that really takes the genre back to its roots in gothic rock of years past, it's Idle Hands . Gabriel Franco's grimly fiendish baritone conducts melancholy post-punk melodies with delicate yet full-bodied sincerity, largely sidestepping the obvious doomy middlemen that usually separate goth rock from metal. Whilesometimes dives into harsher territory with lupine snarls and blastbeats, by and large it is a metalized boost of the tender, melodic school of gothic music, a fresh and rich-sounding entry into a field of metal never given enoughspotlight.