Perhaps the best way to describe this band is a kind of techno progressive metal. This is an all instrumental band with a very interesting and unique approach to music, creating various soundscapes and moods, a band about textures. A very complex band, Kong often times has segments where the band are playing entirely separate from one another, yet the sound works. Eclectic is a word that comes to mind when listening to this band. The production level on the first few albums suffers, as they are a very unknown band. However, I feel that the unique qualities of this band give it a progressive nature, and one that would befit the progarchives. Later albums of the band distance themselves from a metallic sound and go for a more "house" beat sounds, for lack of a better term. When playing live, the band puts themeselves not together on stage, but rather in separate corners of the room allowing for a much different concert music experience.. The band has been disbanded for some time now, playing its last show in 2000.

Bio of the band can be found here
http://www.kong.nl/bio.html

Country - Netherlands

Prog Genre - Progressive Techno Metal ? I've never heard a band sound anything like Kong

Official Website-
http://www.kong.nl/home.html

Kong Discograpahy-

Mute Poet Vocalizer - 1990

Dirk DeVries - guitars, samples
Aldo Sprenger - guitars
Mark Drillich - bass
Rob Smits - drums

Phlegm - 1992

Dirk DeVries - guitars, samples
Aldo Sprenger - guitars
Mark Drillich - bass
Rob Smits - drums

Push Comes to Shove -1995

Dirk DeVries - guitars, samples
Aldo Sprenger - guitars
Mark Drillich - bass
Rob Smits - drums

Earmined - 1997

Dirk DeVries - guitars, samples
Marieke Verdonk - guitars
Mark Drillich - bass
Rob Snijders - drums

Freakcontrol - 1999

Dirk DeVries - guitars, samples
Marieke Verdonk - guitars
Mark Drillich - bass
Klaas Broekema - drums

Best of Kong: 88-95 (compilation)


I dont know how to zip songs, therefore I couldn't send them to the e-mail address. If you do have interest and would like to hear the band, I can send you mp3 files over AIM - OpethGuitarist - and I will glady share them with you.

Thank you for your interest.