The French Connection

Art-rockers Klone have created some of the most progressive music of their career so far on their eighth studio album, The Unseen. Guitarist Guillaume Bernard discusses allowing the space for their sweeping, nourishing sounds to blossom and mature, and reveals why they’re setting their sights on some headline tours.

Dom Lawson

Progressive rock is always wrestling with its intrinsic duality. On one hand, complex, adventurous music can seem like a largely intellectual, almost mathematical exercise. On the other, and particularly at its best, prog has the ability to reduce human beings to spluttering, emotional wrecks. Few bands encapsulate that clash of philosophies as well as Klone. Formed in the late 90s in Poitiers, France, Guillaume Bernard’s enduring crew began their recording career as masters of intricate prog metal, inspired by a host of disparate influences and firmly opposed to the obvious. Their 2004 debut Duplicate and its vastly superior follow-up All Seeing Eye, released in 2008, were far from blank-eyed or clinical, but it’s only in the last decade or so that Klone have fully embraced and focused upon the atmospheric…

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