CILICE FINALLY HAVE THEIR NEW VOCALIST, AND HE RULES

Remember when Vince and Kip heart-throbs Textures got a new vocalist earlier this year? That vocalist is the very talented Daniël De Jongh of Dutch metallers CiLiCe, great for Textures and De Jongh but not so great for CiLiCe, an excellent band in their own right who were suddenly singer-less. But singer-less they are no more; a press release sent earlier this week tells us that CiLiCe have found a new singer in Bryan Ramage, and today Got-Djent is reporting that CiLiCe have posted a new version of the song “Left / Right Hemisphere” with Ramage on vocals on the band’s MySpace page.

One listen verdict: CiLiCe have chosen the right man. Ramage is clearly capable of handling the dynamic range necessary of someone being considered for the CiLiCe job description. His growls are fine, but who cares… that’s the easy part. More importantly, he’s actually a good singer as opposed to just some screamer who hacks it through the clean singing parts.

I look forward to new music from CiLiCe in 2011 hopefully; Deranged Headtrip was a ripper.

-VN