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Clouds is an international atmospheric Funeral Doom Metal band, created by Daniel Neagoe in 2013 which became a super group in 2014, with members of Shape of Despair, Pantheist, Hamferð, Officium Triste and Imber Luminis. They released their first album, Doliu, in 2014 and their sophomore album, Departe, in 2016.

2013 - 2014 : Doliu
Following the loss of a close family member, Daniel created Clouds alone, as a tribute to the departed ones. He initially invited musicians to take part in the project but since the first album was released, the band has known a growing success in the doom metal scene. Thus, Daniel recruited Jarno Salomaa on guitars, Kostas Panagiotou on keyboards and Déhà on guitars & bass, Jón Aldará & Pim Blankenstein as vocals, while he was doing the compositions, the drums and main voices. The production was done by Déhà.

2015 - 2016 : Departe
In 2015, the band released a single, Errata, which was only released digitally for free. In 2016, the band released their second album Departe with the exact same line up for Doliu. Daniel took care this time of the production duties.

Trivia

 * Romanian native, Daniel uses Romanian for the titles of the album (Doliu meaning 'Mourning' and Departe meaning 'Apart, Away') while English is used for the lyrics.
 * For lives, Clouds welcomed Mark Antoniades (Eye of Solitude) as permanent guitarist. As for drummer, Adriano Ferraro (Inebrious Incarnate) during 2015 and as of 2016, they recruited Anders Eek from Norway's Funeral.
 * Clouds was never signed to a label and released their albums and merchandising by themselves.
 * Guest musicians on Departe :
 * Natalie Koskinen (Shape of Despair) appears on the song 'In the Ocean of My Tears' as main vocalist.
 * Shaun McGowan (My Dying Bride) appears on the song 'How can I be there' as violinist.
 * Chris Davies (Eye of Solitude) appears on the song 'I gave my Heart away' as violinist.

Studio line up

 * Daniel Neagoe : Composition, vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums (2014 - Present)
 * Déhà : Guitars, bass, keyboards (2014 - Present)
 * Jarno Salomaa : Guitars (2014 - Present)
 * Kostas Panagiotou : Keyboards (2014 - Present)
 * Jón Aldará : Vocals (2014 - Present)
 * Pim Blankenstein * Vocals (2014 - Present)

Live line up

 * Daniel Neagoe : Vocals (2014 - Present)
 * Jarno Salomaa : Guitars (2014 - Present)
 * Mark Antoniades : Guitars (2015 - Present)
 * Déhà : Bass, backing vocals (2014 - Present)
 * Kostas Panagiotou : Keyboards (2014 - Present)
 * Anders Eek : Drums (2016 - Present)

Past members

 * Adriano Ferraro - Drums (2015)

Discography

 * Doliu (Album - 2014)
 * Errata (Single - 2015)
 * Departe (Album - 2016)