Kong - Leather Penny (Southern)
4/5
By: Liam Manley
So, it turns out that this is not a Dutch prog-metal group as Wikipedia might mislead you to believe, but a Manchester three-piece from the ashes of Oceansize. This much I can derive from the press-release accompanying this one-track promo (the full release featuring two extra songs and limited to 500 copies).
Sadly, the information presented to me fails to clarify the exact personnel and deployment of instrumentation. However, whoever does front this act sports an incredible, frantic snycopation between his mouth and instrument: a delivery somewhere between incomprehensible yelp and corrosive belch, his hands spilling out guitar lines like electric piss. I assume that the man declaring he's the devil is a singer/guitarist, as the rhythm section sound like two men working in his boiler room, overalls soaked with sweat and filth, teeth gritted against the infernal blast. Somehow unfatigued by the relentless first four minutes, they sledgehammer through the final 60 seconds as a show of brute strength, if anything.
Meanwhile, across town... ATP's remarkable resurrection campaign continues apace, enticing original squalid-rockers Jesus Lizard back to the stage for one last hurrah. With indebted artists such as Kong and Pissed Jeans breaking through, there's no better time for David Yow to publicly Clingfilm his scrotum to his thigh once more. We certainly live in blessed times.
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