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That was a close one!

Clarkkent, a rock band from Helsinki Finland, nearly released it’s debut album on its own. The band had been working on the album for three years with various producers and mixers with a small amount of money they earned from playing gigs. They had reached the point when the main goal was just to get the record out and into the stores and see where it would take them. There had definitely been progress for example touring as the warm up act for the Rasmus but still there was that next step to take. The major label companies of Finland were not interested so the band was open to try anything. This meant even contacting the power duo Jukka Backlund and Samu Haber of Sunrise Avenue.

“Yeah it felt strange to present our songs to Jukka and Samu – the media had portrayed them more or less questionable and I really wasn’t sure I wanted them involved with something so dear to us.”, said the lead singer Jaakko.

Backlund and Haber were instantly excited about Clarkkent and Backlund offered to produce two songs he thought to be definitely hit material free of cost just to show the band what they could do.

“When we sat there in their studio and listened to the versions they had done the whole band agreed that this was the “dream team” we’d been looking for!”

Clarkkent plays rock that’s packed with positive energy yet still obtains deep melancholy. The guys are at home on stage. Sweat all around and the crowd goes wild.