This Empty Flow were a band coming from Finland and they lasted only two years. Formed in 1994 by Jori Sjöroos (voice, guitar, programming) and Niko Sirkiä (keyboards, lyrics) in Turku, Finland, they already played in the funeral-doom metal band Thergothon. Later in the same year, Aku-Tuomas Mattila (bass) joined the duo (he was the leader of a local goth-electro band called Sad Parade). During 1995 the band recorded few tracks for a demo and sent it to Avantgarde Music. The Italian label decided to sign a contract with them, so the trio recorded in about two weeks their first and only album "Magenta skycode". The eight tracks of the album were for sure influenced by Cure of tracks like "Just like heaven" or "A picture of you" but the trio went even further expanding the concept of dark track by creating long melancholic tracks. Check the nine minutes long tracks "Useless" and "Towards distant" where the band sound seems to turn into a breath while the time goes by. The crawling structure sometimes recall the atmospheres of Cure’s "Faith" but without forgetting their doom past, because if you check the opening "Nowafter" sometimes the sounds blast off with an explosion of guitars. This double re-edition titled THE ALBUM, gathers along with "Magenta skycode" a second CD "Magenta lost". This one contains eleven songs coming from 4 tracks Fostex recordings. The quality of the demos is quite acceptable and along with demo versions of "(but I am) still" and "Distress" you can check new songs like "Serpents", "Highest of the angels" (oh my, this one seems a "Wish" outtake!), "Nevermore", "The 14th" and others. I know that I named the Cure too many times and now you’ll think about This Empty Flow as clones but believe me if I say that this is not the case.