Winnipeg, Canada's KEN mode are elitist-asshole metallic noise rock with touches of post metal, hardcore, sludge and doom (so they've been told); a product of long, hard winters culminating in a sound that whips, pummels and lacerates its end users like a wicked Manitoba wind. The power trio bares only the essential ingredients necessary to deliver maximum impact and is an exercise in efficiency and ferocity that convincingly illustrates this is the way it should be. The band has been aggressively smearing their filth since 1999 by touring all over Canada, the US and Europe with the likes of Pelican, Daughters, Buried Inside, The End, Gaza, Engineer, Taint, and done various regional dates with Mastodon, Burnt By The Sun, Cursed, Baroness, Bison BC, Propagandhi, These Arms Are Snakes, Despised Icon, etc. March 15, 2010 will see the band unleash its fourth and most devastating work to date; the Godcity/Kurt Ballou (Converge, Trap Them, Old Man Gloom) produced, West West Side/Alan Douches (Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, High on Fire) mastered "Venerable" via Profound Lore Records (Agalloch, Yob, Cobalt).