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Scraping Genius Off The Wheel

HAVE SOME KWC FOR DINNER

 Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 3:30pm by

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When a band names its debut full-length Gambling On The Richter Scale, you pretty much expect it to be heavy as fuck. If San Francisco’s own Kowloon Walled City’s two new tracks (now streaming here) from said forthcoming record are any indication, you’d be goddamn right.

“Clockwork” lurches with sludgy riffage and disgruntled white guy shouts reminiscent of the old Amphetamine Reptile acts, while “Diabetic Feet” lets a low-slung bassline drive its schizophrenia. Gambling On The Richter Scale will be released September 29 on The Perpetual Motion Machine, a great indie that recently released noise rock act The Catalyst’s Swallow Your Teeth, as well as other metal records from Ancient Sky and Litany For The Whale.

[Gary Suarez has the sudden urge to watch Full House. He usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No. Say, why don't you follow him on Twitter?]

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  • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ Zilvrant

    I downloaded Turk Street awhile ago, I haven’t listened to it in a few months but I remember it was pretty heavy

  • doublejtrain

    More Gay Shit Plugged On This Site?

    • Lady Death

      My thoughts exactly. What the fuck is up with the site lately? The only thing they’ve supported that is even worth supporting is Behemoth. Nobody cares about God Forbid. Dying Fetus has an album titled War of Attrition that is a thousand times better than God Forbid’s single/video whatever (which, by the way, might as well be a Killswitch or Shadows Fall. And not everyone knows this but God Forbid’s singer is the spawn of the other two) And Shadows Fall seems to have gotten desperate. They sound exactly like Killswitch. The only cool thing about their video was that it was in an octagon, which is most likely the only place people will ever hear their music anymore. Anyway, on to today. Periphary is terrible. Just to recap what everyone else has said, they’re trying to copy Meshuggah, which can’t be done, then they decide to throw in clean singing that sounds worse than that fro guy from Attack Attack. The only reason they have fans is because those fans have never heard of Meshuggah. Black Anvil sounds like pretty much every other black metal band (I know there are a bunch of black metal fans on this site, but in my opinion it all sounds exactly the friggin same. Speed pick overused riffs and throw Animal on the drums while the singer, for lack of a better description, dry heaves into the microphone.) Maybe I’m biased but I hate that genre. Burning Human is a mediocre Aeon. Even the album cover looks similar, right down to the font of the title (Rise to Dominate). Why not cover the band that does it right? Assjack wants to be Flogging Molly. And then there’s this band. If you want to hear that done right listen to Korn. I’m not kidding. I’ve written better stuff while I was trying to learn how to play an instrument. And as if to solidify my point, Fred Durst was just on tv.

      I know no one’s going to bother reading it but goddammit I wanted to complain! Start covering bands that deserve it even if there’s nothing going on. Benighted came out with an amazing cd last year. The Project Hate MCMXCIX just released a cd and they actually NEED the support of fans. Devildriver’s new cd deserves way more credit than it’s getting. And why not promote bands that have been out forever that still fly under the radar, like Skinless and even Cryptopsy, if only their older stuff.

      • gnarlk

        shaddap…

      • http://richarddawkins.net/ RICHARD DAWKINS

        WHOA SHIT THERE’S NO WAY I’M READING ALL OF THAT BOLLOCKS! YOU NEED TO FOCUS YOUR LIFE ON SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE INTERNET MY FRIEND, PERHAPS DEVOTE YOURSELF TO THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE AND DISPROVING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD -LIKE ME!

        ANYWAY KOWLOON WALLED CITY RULES AND BEHEMOTH SUCKS DONKEY BALLS SO ‘SUCK IT’ AS WE SAY AT OXFORD.

      • Elitist Fuck

        tl;dr version: “Bawwww! Bawww, baw, bawww! I don’t like the crap you guys plug! Regardless of my moniker, I still have a penis. I also come to your site every day!”

        Even so, I do like Skinless.

        • Lady Death

          Well, you’re right about everything except the penis. This site’s like a trainwreck and I know I’m not the only one who just comes here out of habit. It’s just fun to rant sometimes and hope for a debate.

          AND MR. DAWKINS. TODAY WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE SLOW DAYS WHERE THERE WASN’T A GODAMN THING GOING ON. I IN FACT DO HAVE A LIFE OFF OF THE INTERNET AND IT INDEED DOES CONSIST OF TRYING TO DISPROVE THE EXISTANCE OF GOD. I WOULD LOVE TO CONVERSE WITH YOU SOMETIME AND COMPARE NOTES AND DISCOVERIES. I HOPE YOUR HEARING PROBLEM DOESN’T INTERFERE.

          • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

            How the fuck do you spell “existence” wrong when it’s spelled correctly two posts above? Or were you that convinced your version was correct?

          • http://richarddawkins.net/ RICHARD DAWKINS

            THAT’S PROFESSOR DAWKINS TO YOU!

          • Lady Death

            Wow, just wow. If the misspelling of “existence” is the only thing you can find wrong with both posts then I think I’m doing pretty well. Also did you know that the human brain only needs the first and last letter of a word in the correct place then it sort of fills in the blanks for the rest? Sorry I didn’t pay attention.

            u do kno i culd type lik this 2. prety sur ud pik teh abuv.

            Pick on me for my ideas and not the one and only spelling/grammer mistake in two essay long posts. Thank you.

      • doublejtrain

        YEAHHH!!!! :)

      • Facebook User

        If The Project Hate wants more support, maybe they should do a tour, and maybe they SHOULDNT charge 35 dollars a fucking album.

        • Lady Death

          I totally agree with you on that. I love The Project Hate but honestly don’t have 35 bucks for their album. Here’s to hoping that with more recognition comes lower cd prices. It’s certainly possible.

      • Alee

        Comparing Assjack to Flogging Molly and KWC to Korn? That’s so far-flung, the mind positively reels…

        Your entitled to your tastes but these qualms (in true blogger spirit) don’t rise above being fickle and misguided.

  • http://www.cerebralmetalhead.com Satan Rosenbloom

    I loved their debut EP Turk Street so much….it’s available for free on their website! Gogogo!

  • Kris Dahl

    OK I am a bit “drunk” but that was amazing!!
    I love this shit man!!
    Hey
    FUCK!! It’s nice with something raw and low tech for a change.
    I did say I was drunk!! But loved that shit dude.

  • esteban

    sounds like some older Pelican with some drunkard on the mic.

  • TurdFerguson

    I really dig this band. heavy as Morbid Tales-era Celtic Frost and i can understand the vocals.

  • http://www.kingdomofnoise.blogspot.com MetalMatt

    I listened to Turk Street last week. Good shit. I will be downloading the new one.

  • jason

    Wow. Never heard these guys, but they rip! Suarez, thanks for bringin’ some good noise!

  • ILoveChineseMetal

    KWC is the finest metal band to come out of Hong Kong in a long time. I’ve been watching the Chinese metal scene closely for years now, and no one can touch these guys! I’m pretty sure the singer is from England because he doesn’t sing in Cantonese and he doesn’t have much of an accent. I keep looking for them to tour to different areas of China and Asia but don’t see any dates listed at all!?

    • sweet and sour pork

      are they even from hong kong?!?!

      • http://richarddawkins.net/ RICHARD DAWKINS

        NO, THEY ARE NOT FROM HONG KONG. THEY ARE FROM CALIFORNIA. A QUICK TRIP TO THEIR WEBSITE ANSWERS THIS…

        …OBVIOUSLY ‘ILoveChineseMetal’ HASN’T BEEN ‘WATCHING THE CHINESE METAL SCENE’ AS CLOSELY AS HE COULD HAVE.

        IF YOU WANT SOME ACTUAL CHINESE METAL YOU SHOULD TRY HONG KONG BAND ‘HYPONIC’ http://www.myspace.com/hyponic , THEY PLAY FUNERAL DOOM AND I CAN SAY FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT THEY ARE WONDERFUL LIVE -ESPECIALLY AFTER ONE OR TWO CANNABIS CIGARETTES!

  • bearwizard

    this band destroys planets

  • NinjaStarKnifeMonster

    These guys remind me of a west coast Decanting the Blood Whore, except a little less grymm. Maybe even a bit of of Snailface sans antlers.

    • octopusprime

      Maybe even a bit of of Snailface sans antlers.

      Heh. I see what you did there.

      • ShreddyMcghee

        He’s walking on landmines with cloven hooves.

  • Malacoda

    SF Ftw. We rule.