The Swedish sludge/doom trio, Kongh, are a conglomeration of individual musical passions which range from the laid-back cool of the blues to the full-bore visage-mashing hostility of grindcore. There must have been some serious in-house fighting that preceded their compromise that they “wanted to play very loud and heavy and to have a good time”. One great thing about such conflicting opinions is the melting pot of ideas that emerges and this follow-up to their debut album, ‘Counting Heartbeats’, in particular, is overflowing with them.
‘Unholy Water’, for instance, is the heavy-as-fuck combined turbulence of Oskar Rydén’s penetrating bass, Tomas Salonen’s tempestuous drums and David Johansson’s sludge-flinging guitar and vehement vocal which is the very driven wind itself, roaring in elongated blasts around your lugholes. At nine minutes the tornado collapses into a buzzing pile, around which a melodic riff drones before the vocal steps in to finish you off.
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Tracklist
1. Unholy Water
2. Essence Asunder
3. Tank pa Doden
4. Voice of the Below
5. Shadows of the Shapeless
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