Although I only discovered them about a year ago, Sweden’s Kongh quickly became one of my favorite new bands. Their brutally heavy, almost aggravatingly slow, brand of sludgey, droney post-doom really resonated with me from the first time I heard a track from their 2007 debut Counting Heartbeats. Sadly, as much as I love that album (it can be streamed/downloaded on Bandcamp), I haven’t seen it available on CD anywhere.
However, I did snatch up a copy of its follow-up, 2009’s Shadows of the Shapeless, which was released in North America through Seventh Rule Recordings, as soon as I saw it at my local record store. That’s an incredible album as well, so I am beyond excited to learn that they are nearly ready to begin recording a third album!
That announcement came yesterday (Wednesday, 13 June) morning, along with information about the band’s new record deal…
Valley of Steel 