Kong - Snake Magnet

Loud and raw enough to make Ricky Hatton fall to the floor once more, Manchester three-piece Kong finally unleash their debut album‘Snake Magnet’ to the world on Leeds based Brew Records. The trio create a Shellac-sounding, heavy hitting hard rock. Live, they have a charismatic charm, engaging you with their chaotic performance; luckily this does not overshadow their recorded material.

Fifty minutes of dirty distorted riffs rule the roost over the often complicated and self-indulgent music world we live in. Previous single ‘Leather Penny’ starts the order with it’s bass driven introduction into an ear bleeding ten songs. Magpie’s vocal following guitar riffs shred through every song with the same intensity. The trippy bass riffs of third track ‘Wet Your Knives’, which like all other tracks feature Magpie’s drunken yet truly brilliant and downright frightening lyrics, grips you by the balls and gives ‘em a hard squeeze.

The never ending thumping bass and drum parts along with the painfully hard riffs could make listening to ‘Snake Magnet’ a hard task - this is not your average radio friendly rock - but you have to give credit to Kong for being risky. Final track ‘K(l)ong’ is an eight-minute-plus seventy five percent instrumental with a five minute section of the same repetitive drum beat, bass and guitar riff that could be a track in it’s on right.

Without a doubt this album has its gems: ‘Blood Of A Dove’ with it’s hint of a double time riff section, ‘Sport’ with those thumping bass parts, and ‘Gwant’’s full on brain melting drum roll each introduce the never ending distorted sound that creates ‘Snake Magnet’.