Kowloon Walled City

Part of the new wave of noise rock (Neurosis, Thou, YOB, Sleep) Oakland's Kowloon Walled City take the sound pioneered by bands like the Jesus Lizard and Unsane and push it into new dimensions of heaviness. With a style based around detuned, impossibly thick guitars and a bottomless well of anger, their crushing sound combines elements of math rock, sludge, and doom metal. Since debuting in 2008, the band has issued a string of inventive and acclaimed efforts that include Gambling on the Richter Scale (2009), Container Ships (2012), Grievances (2015), and Piecework (2021).