Back in January, I wrote about Gambling On the Richter Scale, a three year old record by a San Francisco sludge/noise rock band called Kowloon Walled City. They took their name from a legendary walled city, one that originally served as a military fortress for the Chinese back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sounds pretty heavy, huh? Well, Kowloon Walled City no longer stands, but Kowloon Walled City (the band) sounds like an army with a bunch of bottled up aggression -- you know, living inside a city that's walled in and all will do that to you. I found the record to be something along the lines of a heavier Quicksand, but, then again, sludge metal and noise rock are not genres I can claim to know a lot about.
