With the new Kilter album, Ten Billion Years, coming June 19th, the Paris/NYC trio has released "Inside Kilter's Ten Billion Years," a 15-minute mini-doc revealing behind-the-scenes footage from the album's recording process as well as interviews with all three band members – bassist Laurent David, saxophonist Ed Rosenberg III, and drummer Kenny Grohowksi, known for his work with John Zorn, Secret Chiefs 3, and Imperial Triumphant.
Kilter's highly experimental jazz-metal exists in a space between John Coltrane, Sunn O))), and Meshuggah. The new album, Ten Billion Years, is a musical rendering of nothing less than the birth and death of our solar system; it traces the journey of one water droplet as it travels and transforms through space and time.
A recent Decibel Magazine article states: "It’s an ambitious premise, but Kilter approaches it with precision rather than spectacle, building tension through repetition, instability, and gradual transformation."
"Inside Kilter's Ten Billion Years" highlights the chemistry between David, Rosenberg, and Grohowski as they work together in the studio to realize this extremely challenging project. Inspired in part by John Cage's explorations in time-stretching, the trio's process was to record 10 minutes of music, slow it down to 25% of its original speed, then recreate the pieces from scratch at the new, glacial tempo – a process of reinterpretation and rediscovery which Rosenberg likens to the way in which entire new worlds are revealed when looking through a microscope.
In Decibel's words: "The Franco-American trio bend jazz elasticity and metal force into something far stranger... music that doesn’t just describe transformation, but enacts it in real time."
Stream the "Inside Kilter's Ten Billion Years" mini-doc here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reM6AEwJrx0
Pre-order the Ten Billion Years album here: https://kiltertrio.bandcamp.com/album/ten-billion-years
More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2026/04/kilter-ten-billion-years.html
Stream the "Inside Kilter's Ten Billion Years" mini-doc here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reM6AEwJrx0
Pre-order the Ten Billion Years album here: https://kiltertrio.bandcamp.com/album/ten-billion-years
More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2026/04/kilter-ten-billion-years.html
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