Kingston Wall

Kingston Wall was a hard-edged progressive rock band from Finland, highlighted by the inspired and inventive guitar playing of Petri Walli. Though their influences (Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix) can be heard often in the music, the band did not lack for an identifying sound. Walli had traveled in India and that Eastern influence was easily heard in much of the music. Lyrically, the songs largely concern themselves with mythology, psychedelics, and the standard love/love gone wrong theme. Formed in Helsinki in 1987 (with a different drummer), the band didn't release its first al...