USU pres.: KAYO DOT + support | Neue Zukunft - 10.09.2025

Unlimited Sonic Use presents:

KAYO DOT - US | SPKR Media
https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/
https://kayodot.net
Genre: Dark Otherwordly Avantgarde Goth Prog
FFO: Extra Life, Maudlin of the Well, Universe Zero, Present

Kayo Dot is less a band than a twenty-year act of radical composition. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver, the project has evolved through ten full-length albums, each one a rupture and a reinvention. Since its founding in 2003, Kayo Dot has functioned as a mutable vessel for Driver's search for form, intensity, and transformation-its output spanning chamber-metal, spectral jazz, gothic synthscapes, and genreless music that critics have struggled to define but which has left deep marks on underground music culture. Working closely with librettist and conceptualist Jason Byron, the band's work blends philosophical themes, mythic architecture, and violent emotionality into what amounts to a long-form, evolving autobiography-a sonic document of the artist haunted by his own past.

Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason is the new Kayo Dot album, a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Choirs of the Eye that reunites the original lineup. The latest musical statement from the everchanging composer Toby Driver, it marks both a return and a progression from the band's seminal debut by revisiting the compositional practices that defined it while pushing forward into uncharted territory. Rejecting traditional rock structures and the more predictable contours of metal, Every Rock... shapes a sound that feels familiar and alien at once, where custom-designed microtonal organs and guitars weave an effort to reconcile the impossible tension between past and future. Moving away from the typical emphasis on low-end frequencies, it floats instead in the upper spectrum, where the textures become more fragile, more intimate, and more abrasive and terrifying.

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Presale:
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