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Album of the day: Kongh – Shadows Of The Shapeless

Posted on Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Kongh – Shadows Of The Shapeless

Lovingly pinched from Sonic Dice: 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.

Continue reading: Sonic Dice | Album Review: Kongh – Shadows Of The Shapeless | Mp3: Kongh – Unholy Water

Please click here for the audio stream of Kongh live at Roadburn 2008

Tags: album of the day, doom, John Skibeat, Kongh, post rock, Shadows Of The Shapeless, sludge, Sonic Dice, Trust No One Recordings
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