Police State is an industrial project known for their immersive, dizzying live performances and impeccable presentation. They combine elements of metal, jazz, classical, noise, sludge, and whatever-else-you-can-name in their dreary, drawn-out passages. For fans of noise, misery, fury, Swans, The Birthday Party, and many others, Police State represent gruesome, pungent, and poetic atrophy made sonic in their manifestation. They’ve played alongside acts such as flyingfish, journal, White Boy Scream, Big Brown Cow, and many others. Their recent live record, Slow Violence, and a Silent Rise, is an exceptional display of their pounding post-rock expanses, dense and sweeping compositions, and unadulterated ambition that only further assures them an auspicious and fascinating future.