USU pres.: KAYO DOT + Dead Western | Neue Zukunft - 10.09.2025
Schedule
Wed Sep 10 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Neue Zukunft | Berlin, BE
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Unlimited Sonic Use presents:KAYO DOT - US | Prophecy Records
https://kayodot.bandcamp.com/
https://kayodot.net
Genre: Dark Otherwordly Avantgarde Goth Prog
FFO: Extra Life, Maudlin of the Well, Universe Zero, Present
Kayo Dot is less a band than a twenty-year act of radical composition. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Toby Driver, the project has evolved through ten full-length albums, each one a rupture and a reinvention. Since its founding in 2003, Kayo Dot has functioned as a mutable vessel for Driver’s search for form, intensity, and transformation—its output spanning chamber-metal, spectral jazz, gothic synthscapes, and genreless music that critics have struggled to define but which has left deep marks on underground music culture. Working closely with librettist and conceptualist Jason Byron, the band’s work blends philosophical themes, mythic architecture, and violent emotionality into what amounts to a long-form, evolving autobiography—a sonic document of the artist haunted by his own past.
Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason is the new Kayo Dot album, a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Choirs of the Eye that reunites the original lineup. The latest musical statement from the everchanging composer Toby Driver, it marks both a return and a progression from the band’s seminal debut by revisiting the compositional practices that defined it while pushing forward into uncharted territory. Rejecting traditional rock structures and the more predictable contours of metal, Every Rock… shapes a sound that feels familiar and alien at once, where custom-designed microtonal organs and guitars weave an effort to reconcile the impossible tension between past and future. Moving away from the typical emphasis on low-end frequencies, it floats instead in the upper spectrum, where the textures become more fragile, more intimate, and more abrasive and terrifying.
Dead Western - US
https://deadwestern.bandcamp.com/
Genre: Immersive Croonering
FFO: Chad VanGalen, Digger Barnes, Dirty Projectors
Those who have experienced Dead Western know what it is. For those who don’t, words do no justice to the layers of deep mysterious yet humorous morals Dead Western brings. Wait. Silence: A strange dramatic expression is made, an other-worldly voice gestures a musical call, obviously human, but you can’t put your finger on it, you’ve never heard this voice before: it’s rough yet soft, soaring high, yet deep below, ridiculous yet wise. The tune dances with the resonance of wood, strings and fingernails. So familiar yet so foreign, and messenger from an ancient dream, perhaps. But if nothing else, a completely unique and organic performer… it’s hard to explain, come check him out.
Presale:
Online:
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/usu-pres-kayo-dot-dead-western-neue-zukunft-10092025-tickets-1366835173799
Hardtickets via KOKA36:
https://www.koka36.de/kayo-dot-support_ticket_178066.html
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Where is it happening?
Neue Zukunft, Alt-Stralau 68, 10245 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
