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Ken Mode

Taking their name from a passage in Henry Rollins' memoir Get in the Van, Juno Award winners KEN mode (short for "Kill Everyone Now") are a Canadian noise rock band hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Led by brothers and core members Jesse and Shane Matthewson, who handle guitar/vocals and drums, respectively, KEN mode emerged in the early aughts with a sound that combines the industrial/noise emissions of Swans with the hardcore-laced attack of Converge. The band rose to the fore of the post-hardcore scene in the 2010s with the acclaimed efforts Venerable (2011) and Entrench (2013) and continued to ply their extreme sonic wares into the next decade with the bleak and unrelenting NULL (2022) and VOID (2023). Formed by the Matthewson brothers in 1999 with long-time friend Darryl Laxdal on bass, KEN mode issued a string of demos before releasing their first studio LP in 2003. With a punishing metallic sound, the band expanded on the solid foundation laid down by AmRep titans like the Jesus Lizard and Unsane, harnessing those bands' sense of aggression and agitation while considerably upping the intensity. KEN mode made their full-length debut in 2003 with Mongrel, released by Escape Artist, which would also go on to issue their sophomore effort, Reprisal, in 2006. A self-released third album, Mennonite, followed in 2008. Two years later, KEN mode hooked up with the influential metal label Profound Lore, which released their fourth set, Venerable. The album would prove to be a breakthrough for the band, who earned the first-ever Juno in the heavy metal category. Their fifth LP, the Polaris Music Prize-nominated Entrench, arrived in 2013 on Season of Mist. The same label released the group's Steve Albini-recorded sixth album, Success, in 2015; their seventh, Loved, produced by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Daughters), arrived in 2018. KEN mode officially added frequent collaborator Kathryn Kerr (saxophone, synth) to their roster for 2022's uncompromising and wide-ranging NULL. Their first outing for Artoffact Records, the album saw the band attempting to parse the collective mental despair of the past two years. In 2023, VOID arrived as something of a tonal sequel, moving from anger to sadness, though still with the band's signature aggressiveness.
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