CLOUX

Progressive Metal • France
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Sylvain Cloux is a French guitarist who has released a number of progressive metal albums under the monicker of Cloux.
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CLOUX Chromosome album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
Chromosome
Progressive Metal 2006
CLOUX Metal Version - Volume 1 album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Metal Version - Volume 1
Progressive Metal 2008

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CLOUX Full Fool album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Full Fool
Progressive Metal 2004

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CLOUX Chromosome

Album · 2006 · Progressive Metal
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Genre: instrumental metal / progressive metal

Sylvain Cloux, the person behind Cloux, is a guitarist who, in addition to performing in a number of bands of various genres, releases instrumental heavy metal albums on his own every now and then.

"Chromosome" is one such album, and it contains eleven hardrocking metal songs, which are progressively oriented. Cloux makes use of elements from all over the metal palette, ranging from chucking thrash metal riffage over groovy nu metal sections to traditional heavy metal and hardrock based riffs. Although the tracks are instrumental, and not as complex as heavy metal instrumentals tend to be, "Chromosome" never gets boring to listen to. There is just enough variation to make it worthwhile and the degree of complexity is low enough for most people to follow it.

This is an instrumental album, so those who are used to more mainstream-ish music may not like it, but I think it will appeal to fans of the likes of Vai and Satriani and especially to those who are looking to get into instrumental metal but are not quite ready for Satriani, Vai, or Kong for tha matter.

CLOUX Metal Version - Volume 1

Album · 2008 · Progressive Metal
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Genre: progressive metal / instrumental metal

I've always liked the idea of rock covers of movie and TV-show themes, so this stuff is of course right up my alley - especially, because Cloux covers themes whose originals are I like, such as the themes from A-Team, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Rocky and Indiana Jones.

Cloux' use of guitar melodies and twin guitar harmonies really makes this album a really great and catchy listen - and I also like the idea of humorous music actually still being quality music that is well performed and enjoyable to listen to.

The many layers of guitar harmonies and the complexity of the themes, which are typically originally written for other instrumentations than your typical metal guitar-bass-drums set-up, makes the music on this CD come across as quite progressive.

The main problem with this album is that the drums are programmed - and I think it would sound much better if the drums were played by a real human being... perhaps Sylvain Cloux should consider teaming up with super drummer Andrea Vadrucci in the future.

This should appeal to fans of guitar-driven metal such as Steve Vai and Joe Satriani and also to fans of progressive metal.

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