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A Pile of Dudes

About Me

Closer was rooted in Stockholm and consisted of six members, made progressively erratic music. On stage, the band delivered a melodic package of focused energy.

Their debut album ‘Tokpela EP’ was recorded during the fall of 2005, and in 2007 they released the sophomore EP ‘The 39’.

BUT NOW CLOSER IS DEAD!
Please keep enjoying the music here on myspace though.
Also you can still purchase Tokpela EP and The 39 at itsatrap.com.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2005
Band Website: closersounds.com
Band Members: Alx Reuterskiöld
guitar

Olle Cederborg
guitar

Joachim Dahlberg
vocals

Magnus Ã…sard
bass

Jesper Örtegren
drums

Kim Wennerström
live guitar

Influences: Mew, Tool, QOTSA, MegaMan, Neurosis, Eleven, Steven Tyler, Built to Spill, 16 Horsepower, Faith No More, Jeff Buckley, Yob, Castlevania amongst many others...
Sounds Like: "There is a bit of Tool, QotSA and a more melodic aspect that reminds me of a few melodic-metal bands of the mid-nineties (Only Living Witness and Chum for example.) Probably not conscious but I find that they resemble 1995-98 Anathema in mood and arrangements while being significantly more up tempo"
-Simon of It's A Trap!

"...a lot of the riffs and arrangements sort of sound like Opeth if they were to drop the metal and go for somewhat of a dryer and more angular sound. There's a great balance of melody and dissonance, I love the vocal work, the songwriting is dynamic yet consistent, and there's a lot of intricate riffing so the entire affair is much more involved than cursory listens might reveal"
-Andrew of Aversionline
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Closer is dead!

We have decided to put Closer to rest after struggling with this beast of a band for three years. It's been fun, and thanks for listening. Take careCloser
Posted by CLOSER on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:02:00 PST

Music for films, games and lasershows

Alx has made his film music available through his site www.carooze.com and here on MySpace. Check it out! If you're in the business and want exclusive tunes for your movie, send him an e-mail. ...
Posted by CLOSER on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:17:00 PST

SPAM

Once again our account has been hacked and some cock smoker is posting comments all over about these gift cards from Macys. We are not doing this, but we apologies either way. No hard feelings? Made s...
Posted by CLOSER on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:58:00 PST

New songs!

So we've posted the new EP for your listening pleasure. Decided to cut the intro to The Wake, called Sensing, due to the limitation in file size Myspace has. So in order to enjoy the full track you'll...
Posted by CLOSER on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:54:00 PST

Additional live guitarist

From now on Closer will be joined on stage by guitarist Kim Wennerström of God Damn Trio fame! This makes Closer a six man strong live experience not to be missed - Kim is known for his on-stage blood...
Posted by CLOSER on Sun, 20 May 2007 03:25:00 PST

Sweden Rock Festival

Closer has been chosen as one of nine unsigned bands, out of 320 applicants, to perform at this years Sweden Rock Festival alongside such giants as Aerosmith, Scorpions and the Australian Pink Floyd S...
Posted by CLOSER on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:02:00 PST

Reviews 2007

February 11, 2007As the first review of 2007 just came to our attention we started a new review section of the blog, hopefully these reviews will be more of our soon-to-be-available new EP, but here's...
Posted by CLOSER on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:16:00 PST

Closer to The Darkness

The video for an edited version of Open Casket will exclusively appear in the upcoming Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 videogame The Darkness....
Posted by CLOSER on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:11:00 PST

Photos

Check out some photos of our gig with Khoma at Debaser in Sthlm on Dec 19 at Mestrock.se...
Posted by CLOSER on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:01:00 PST

Closer --> Studio -->

Although we had some difficulties while recording, the turkey is stuffed and heading towards the oven. Jesper, Magnus, Olle, Alx and Joachim are finally on tape, which is a mighty good start... Post-p...
Posted by CLOSER on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:45:00 PST