Exclusive CVLT Nation Streaming: KAYO DOT – “Passing the River”

For over ten years Toby Driver and KAYO DOT have crafted music that defies all categorizations and definitions, often even going beyond what one can humanly comprehend in the realm of sonic experimentation. In their decade-long career, these masters of avant garde metal wizardry have shown fear in front of nothing when it comes to pushing the limits of musical composition and have ridiculed boundaries, genre-restrictions, the odds and the rules of songwriting itself. Jazz, black metal, chamber music, noise, sludge-doom, progressive rock, classical and free-form composition exists all in one place with seamless beauty and crushing intensity and forces everything in between into complete submission. KAYO DOT have subdued and molded to their obscure and mesmerizing musical vision into every musical genre they have attempted to possess and manipulate, paving the way throughout the years for the creation of an incredible discography completely stuffed with masterpieces and dominated by a grandeur and magnetism almost impossible to describe. So it is with great pleasure for us here at CVLT Nation that we bring to you exclusively the latest spasm of musical genius from this beautiful enigma of a band. “Passing the River” is one of the many mind-bending moments you will soon be able to find on the band’s new album, Hubardo, a monstrous and colossal masterpiece of blackened avant garde metal majesty that the band will self-release on September 1st through their Bandcamp page, digitally only to start with. Enjoy the 10+ minutes of excruciating beauty of “Passing the River” through the stream below and keep in mind that Hubardo is not only sonically another towering achievement for this band, and possibly the greatest album they have ever made, but also a statement worthy of great respect, as the entire work is – in all its titanic glory – entirely self-produced and self-released by the band, and all proceeds from it’s digital sales and pre-orders will go into funding the vinyl version of the album, which you can pre-order HERE! Talk about integrity, creative independence and DIY ethics. Enjoy!