Clone is the fourth studio album by British

United Kingdom

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 progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Threshold

Threshold (band)

Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s.-History:Threshold began their career in 1988, initially playing covers of metal groups like Ratt and Testament. As they continued playing together, they began to write their own songs, and eventually stopped playing...

, released in 1998. This album is the first to feature longtime singer Andrew "Mac" McDermott

Andrew McDermott

Andrew "Mac" McDermott was a singer mostly known for his work in the progressive metal band Threshold. He was also the lead singer of Swampfreaks and the German group Sargant Fury.-History:...

 and the final album to feature drummer

Drummer

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 Mark Heaney

Mark Heaney

Mark Heaney is an English drummer. A self-taught drummer who started playing drums at the age of eight after seeing Buddy Rich playing on TV, by age ten he was working two to three nights playing in pubs and clubs throughout the United Kingdom in his father's band.Heaney has recorded and played on...

, and is also the only album by the band not to have a special edition release.

The album also comes closer than any other by the band to presenting a loose storyline

Concept album

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 through its songs, describing how the genetic manipulation of humans leads to the development of telepathy

Telepathy

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, and how these enhanced humans leave the earth to colonize other planets, eventually returning to Earth centuries later.

UK Planet Rock (radio station) DJ Darren Redick features on the introduction to the song 'Goodbye Mother Earth'.

Track listing

1. "Freaks" – 5:23
2. "Angels" – 6:42
3. "The Latent Gene" – 8:00
4. "Lovelorn" – 5:41
5. "Change" – 4:33
6. "Life's Too Good" – 5:27
7. "Goodbye Mother Earth" – 7:58
8. "Voyager II" – 9:04
9. "Sunrise On Mars" – 5:47

Personnel

• Mac
  Andrew McDermott
  Andrew "Mac" McDermott was a singer mostly known for his work in the progressive metal band Threshold. He was also the lead singer of Swampfreaks and the German group Sargant Fury.-History:...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Karl Groom
  Karl Groom
  Karl Groom is a British guitarist and record producer, mostly known as founding member of the progressive metal band Threshold.-Work:During his career Groom also played in the band Shadowland, took part in the progressive rock supergroup Casino, and contributed to MyEarthDream by Edenbridge...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  /acoustic
• Nick Midson – guitar/acoustic
• Jon Jeary
  Jon Jeary
  Jon Jeary was the bass guitarist and one of the founding members of British progressive metal band Threshold. Jeary left the group in 2003 to be replaced by Steve Anderson...
  
   –bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Richard West
  Richard West (keyboardist)
  Richard West is an English musician and producer, most widely known as the keyboard player and a songwriter for progressive metal band Threshold...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Mark Heaney
  Mark Heaney
  Mark Heaney is an English drummer. A self-taught drummer who started playing drums at the age of eight after seeing Buddy Rich playing on TV, by age ten he was working two to three nights playing in pubs and clubs throughout the United Kingdom in his father's band.Heaney has recorded and played on...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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