The genuinely genre-defying Kayo Dot have announced a new album, Blasphemy, due September 6 via Prophecy Productions (pre-order). It was co-produced by the band’s own Toby Driver and the very talented ...

When we last discussed the upcoming Sal Mineo (aka Eugene Robinson of Oxbow & Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart) show at Bell House on September 6, not much was known other than the dates (one of three total).

While many major metal bands are playing albums in full (from Opeth to Megadeth), it is still a rarity to see a more underground, experimental metal band do the same. On Feb. 6, Kayo Dot not only ...

Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. To read various descriptions from magazines and reviews, you might feel like you couldn't be reading about the same band. From chamber music to black ...

File Kayo Dot into that category of bands I don’t know a whole about but ought to; every time I’ve heard their music over the years I’ve liked it. Learn from my mistake and don’t be a fool; listen to ...

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Experimental prog crew Kayo Dot have revealed plans to trim down the weirdness of last year's double-album oddity Hubardo, at least volume wise, with a single-disc set titled Coffins on Io. The record ...

We’ve called them “Heavy as Fuck and Weird as Hell” in the past and at one point my predecessor said their inability to catch Kayo Dot live was a personal failure. That was back in 2016 and I can’t ...

After years of writing and recording, Kayo Dot's main mastermind Toby Driver has got his routine down pat. "I think when you have music that is that complicated, the way to be most successful ...

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Kayo Dot has never been easily summarized. Throughout its career it’s had tags like “avant-garde” and “prog-metal” thrown at it, and while both suggest the band’s disregard for easily classifiable ...

Kayo Dot is an avant-rock group originally from Boston, Massachusetts, United States (now based in Brooklyn, New York) that was formed in 2003 by Toby Driver after the disband of maudlin of the Well.