Kong 8 Studio Albums (1990 2014)

The best way to describe this band is a mixture of ideas from electronic and experimental music fused with progressive metal. An all instrumental band, Kong are able to create various sounds and moods, not unlike some post rock. Kong often has segments where the band is playing entirely separate from one another, yet the sound works. Eclectic is a word that comes to mind when listening to this band.
They started out in 1988 as a side project for Amsterdam-based musicians Dirk DeVries (guitar, samples, programming), Aldo Sprenger (guitar), Mark Drillich (bass, programming), and Rob Smits (drums)…

Released in the middle of Kong's open-ended career break of the early 2000s, this collection encapsulates the groundbreaking Dutch group's first musical era, which contained three albums of daring, mostly instrumental experimental hard rock verging on heavy metal. Applying the greatest-hits treatment to a band of Kong's unconventional nature is always a tricky proposition, but Best of Kong: 1988-1995 handles the challenge capably enough, tracing the group's trajectory chronologically and inserting a handful of rarities into the mix so as to spice things up for collectors…