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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Neo-psychedelic doom metal from Amsterdam
Drone-laced riffs and thunderous grooves with bluesy vocals and electric violin in a maelstrom of feedback, loops, and effects.
KEN Mode — the acronym stands for Kill Everyone Now — is a noise rock band formed in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1999 by brothers Jesse and Shane Matthewson. The group earned a Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year for their Kurt Ballou-produced LP Venerable (2011, Profound Lore), which refined their assault of metallic noise rock, sludge, and post-hardcore. Subsequent albums including Loved (2018, produced by Andrew Schneider) and Null (2022, Artoffact Records) have pushed the band toward darker, more industrial-tinged territory.
Pioneering art-punk from Houston.
Houston industrial noise/experimental. Dark, abrasive, and deeply unsettling.
Irreverent art-punk from Austin.
Youthful grunge revivalists from Austin.
Austin noise rock pioneers. David Yow and David Wm. Sims went on to form The Jesus Lizard.
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
Dallas noise-punk cult legends. Close friends with the Butthole Surfers, acquired legendary underground status.
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