Karnivool - In Verses Tour

Karnivool return to Lyon: In Verses Tour at La Rayonne

At La Rayonne, we are delighted to welcome Karnivool and the In Verses Tour to our stage, a meeting of precision engineering and expansive imagination that epitomizes why progressive rock continues to captivate Lyon’s most curious listeners. As a venue built for nuance as much as impact, we are preparing for a performance that travels from whisper-quiet detail to tectonic crescendos, the kind of arc Karnivool have refined across landmark releases such as Sound Awake and Asymmetry. In recent years, the band reaffirmed its creative momentum with the immersive concert film and live release Decade of Sound Awake and the unveiling of the new single All It Takes—signals that the group’s craft continues to evolve without surrendering its core identity. For this date at La Rayonne, our team is shaping the room around the band’s dynamics: sculpted low end for the percussive pulse, clear stereo imaging for intricate guitar dialogues, and vocal clarity designed to carry every intimate inflection and every skyward refrain to the back row with equal force.

What the In Verses Tour means on our stage

When Karnivool step into La Rayonne, the encounter is as architectural as it is musical. Their songs are built like cathedrals of rhythm—each section supporting another through polyrhythms, shifting meters, and luminous textures—so we configure the stage to invite that architecture to bloom. Expect an opening atmosphere that breathes, heightening anticipation, before the band’s signature surges unfold into complex cycles that are felt in the chest and traced in the air by light and shadow. The interplay of guitars, bass, and drums will occupy its own carved space in the spectrum, allowing listeners to follow the micro-movements that make this music so rewarding in a live setting. From tight, coiled riffs that snap to attention to long-form passages that reward patience with radiant release, the In Verses Tour harnesses contrast: brittle and warm, precise and fluid, cerebral and visceral. At La Rayonne, that contrast becomes tangible—spotlights that cut like lines on blueprint paper, saturated washes that bathe the room during wide-open codas, and a sound field tuned to let complexity breathe rather than blur.

The artistic present of Karnivool meets the intimacy of our hall at exactly the right moment. The band’s recent chapter has underscored a renewed appetite for exploration, with All It Takes hinting at the weight and clarity of their next steps while live sets have recontextualized beloved pieces that audiences have grown with over the years. On our stage, that conversation between past and future becomes a single narrative: the tensile focus of Simple Boy rubbing against the glowing patience of New Day, the taut menace of Goliath giving way to the communal lift of We Are. Our production team approaches this show as a collaboration—lighting cues designed to trace rhythmic pivots, and dynamic sound that keeps every layer legible no matter how dense the arrangement becomes—so that listeners can inhabit the music rather than merely observe it. La Rayonne thrives on artists who treat a concert like a living, breathing organism, and the In Verses Tour is exactly that: a finely tuned system where emotion and engineering reinforce one another until the room itself seems to pulse.