Martin Hellgren, lead vocalist of Danish metallers Clonecircle, doesn’t have a great voice in the classical sense of the word. To be perfectly honest he shouts more than he actually sings. However, Hellgren has got personality, and personality goes a long way. That goes for the rest of the band as well.

Clonecircle dabbles in industrial and goth metal and sounds like a depressed clone of Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, early Paradise Lost and a few others, yet besides the at times obvious influences the Danish quartet manage to have a sound of their own: Lots of industrial beats, heavy-as-hell guitar riffs, misanthropic lyrics, melancholic melodies and the aforementioned Martin Hellgren doing his angry bear impersonation on top of it all.

A sweet breaker from all the testosterone-ladden darkness is the track ‘Thunder And The Rain’ – a nice, slow-paced duet with an excellent elfish woman mysteriously credited as “Winni” in the CD booklet – but it’s all pretty awesome actually!

Genre: Industrial/Goth metal
Who: Clonecircle
Album: Behind The Wire
Label: M&M Production/Target Distribution
Year: 2010
Country: Denmark
Language: English
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Recommended tracks:
Your Own Worst Enemy – Behind The Wire – Thunder And The Rain – Sweet Impossibility