Gambling on the Richter Scale

VINYL FORMAT. On Gambling on the Richter Scale, their first full-length, Kowloon Walled City add a touch of finesse to the grinding pummel introduced on last year's Turk Street EP drawing comparisons to Neurosis, The Melvins and other low-end explorers, from the '90s AmRep roster to the current crop of sludgecore contenders. Crushing heaviness, churning and lurching, tempos that drag like continental plates. Tectonics, as it happens, are a theme here. Note the album art, with smoke rising from the band's hometown of San Francisco, freshly leveled by the 1906 quake. LP comes packaged with a CD, limited to 500, with all copies on colored vinyl.