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"With its post-modern progressive metal with ambiences oscillating between ambient and grunge, Klone asserts itself henceforth as a group impossible to circumvent in the world of progressive metal."
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Barely two years after a critically acclaimed "All Seeing Eye", the Frenchmen of Klone pursue their long road to a well-deserved consecration. To the question of knowing what the careful listening of the previous album have led us to expect, moving away from the progressive death of the beginnings, will it come to life on "Black Days"? The answer is yes: Klone has found its way and now plunges us into the meanderings of a postmodern progressive metal with atmospheres varying between moody and grunge...
After the opening track "Rite Of Passage", the combo proceeds with the nervous "Spiral Down", a real synthetic patchwork of their influences, between rumbling riffs that could evoke Tool, melancholic atmospheric ambiances a la Opeth, thrashy nervous passages, and a little grunge side a la Alice In Chains, especially given by Yann Ligner's totally hallucinating singing... In this matter, the hoarse tessitura of the one who also officiates in Mistaken Element emphasizes the tortured aspect of the compositions which are from now on recognisable between all. On the hypnotic side, we note an instrumental variation on the same theme with the return of the saxophones so dear to Klone ("Closed Season"), an interlude totally in keeping with the dark and dissonant content of the whole.
Klone's approach proves to be unbeatable and absolutely addictive for those who will appreciate it at its true value. Indeed, "Black Days" is a jewel from which eleven homogeneous tracks emerge with a perfect balance between bewitchment and dynamism... Klone is now an unavoidable combo to be classified in the category of unclassifiable bands, so much its identity is clean with a sound beyond comparison - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Rite Of Passage
02. Spiral Down
03. Give Up The Rest
04. Holloway
05. Immaculate Desire
06. Closed Season
07. The Spell Is Cast
08. Danse Macabre
09. Rain Bird
10. Behold The Silence
11. Army of Me
LINEUP:
Florent Marcadet: Batterie
Guillaume Bernard: Guitares
Jean Etienne Maillard: Basse
Matthieu Metzger: Claviers
Michael Moreau: Guitares
Yann Ligner: Chant
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