Yamantaka // Sonic Titan + Gold Dime

Sporting makeup inspired by Japanese Noh theater (this isn’t a KISS cover band), Canadian collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan creates operatic prog-rock that imagines dystopian worlds of the future. Somewhere between metal, punk and droning noise rock, the band's latest release, Dirt, was conceived as a soundtrack for an unreleased Haudenosaunee- and Buddhist-themed anime movie about a flooded world in which people live in floating bubbles and fight for soil.