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Clonecircle
is a new Danish band emerging from
Randers, Denmark’s “City of violence”. The band consists of: Martin Halgren:
Bass/vocals/keys, Morten Sandberg: Guitars/keys, Thomas Y: Guitars,
Kim Kvist: Drums.
The
first impression when listening to this Clonecircle debut album is
actually a rather good one. The songs are all well arranged and
performed, and the single “Waiting for the kill” is a quite
catchy One-riff-carries-it-all little number. Kudos to the sound
engineer.
Sadly,
after just a few spins, Martin’s vocals start to become more and
more annoying. First you start to notice the accent. Unlike most
Danes, I don’t mind when Danes speak English with an accent, so no
points are deducted from that fact. But since a Danish accent on
CD’s is rather uncommon, it turns your attention to the vocals and
then it quickly becomes clear that Martin is not a great singer.
Even on the studio album, there are numerous times when he is
off-key.
In
the end it becomes an album that you’ll hardly ever listen to
unless you know one or more of the band members personally. I would
readily regard this as a very descent demo, but as an official
release, it is mediocre at best.
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