Clock-Out Lounge Presents: Kayo Dot w/ Xasthur plus guests TBA

Kayo Dot has been redefining experimental music for over twenty years under composer Toby Driver's leadership, releasing eleven albums that blend chamber metal, spectral jazz, gothic synthscapes, and other uncategorized sounds critics deem essential to underground canon. Their latest album Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason (2025) extends this legacy through custom microtonal instruments, expansive compositions, and Jason Byrons poetic texts, earning praise as both a bad-time masterpiece from Treble and the purest expression of Kayo Dots unpredictable spirit from Toilet Ov Hell. Live performances are known for nightly transformations that reshape songs into new forms, with the band drawing listeners from avant-garde composers to black metal devotees through its unique world built on memory, loss, and invention. Xasthur's 2005 demo album appeals to those who appreciate oppressive black metal and understand that no person or group in the Black Metal community can match Xasthur's ability to create such a tangible presence of distress for listeners.