Flowing Tears began life as more an Atmospheric Doom Metal band back in '94. Back then they were known as the rather wordy Flowing Tears & Withered Flowers. If that name doesn't drip depressing Metal I dunno what does. The band did manage to release two albums and an EP under that name. By '99 they decided to chop the name down a bit and release what is considered the great album in 'Jade', which was profiled here. The band has released two albums under the new name before parting with vocalist Stefanie Duchene and replacing her with Helen Vogt. Despite being signed to Century Media their first album with Helen, 'Razorbliss' went largely unnoticed. If I recall there was some promotion for the new album and lineup, but it seemed to fall on deaf ears. In '07 the band released their Live album 'Invanity - Live In Berlin'. The album is somewhat of an acoustic/electronic effort. A short nine tracks in length, the album pulls from their three albums. It also includes an eerie cover of Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask" as well as a cover of Nick Cave's "The Weeping Song", which features Tiamat frontman Johan Edlund sharing vocals.
This album and band is one of those times I can spin something from them and say Metal is all guttural death chants and screaming. Once again this is an album you can ease someone not familiar with the genre into. Sadly the band really hasn't done anything since their '08 release 'Thy Kingdom Gone' and has split up as of earlier this year. Flowing Tears were a great band I think that just got lost by the wayside of the other more well know Female Fronted Metal bands like Nightwish, The Gathering, Tristania, Lacuna Coil and the such. Really a shame this band wasn't as big as they could have been.
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