Album review: King 810 – Under The Black Rainbow

It’s easy to forget for anyone old enough, and hard to believe for anyone younger, that there was a time people discussed King 810 as potentially being the next Slipknot. Their powder-keg debut album, 2014’s Memoirs Of A Murderer, explored the dark underbelly of their native Flint, Michigan. Its divisiveness only added to the interest. Unfortunately, the enterprise was somewhat undermined by their threatening aesthetic, a predilection for guns, and offstage misdemeanours that skewed the focus.  Soon enough, people became more interested in the headlines David Gunn and co. made than the music, which is a shame because some of it – 2016’s second album La Petite Mort or a Conversation with God, in particular – was more interesting than the shock tactics woul...

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