Australian doom metal outfit King Zog share new lyric video for »Rat King«; »Second Dawn« reissue out February 21st via Hammerheart Records!
Boorloo/Perth, Australia based doom metal outfit King Zog share a lyric video for the song »Rat King« from their latest full-length album, »Second Dawn«, to be reissued on February 21st, 2025 via Hammerheart Records.
Tracklist:
01. Scelestic Dusk
02. Rat King
03. Hollow Man Blues
04. Creep On
05. Madagascar Tree
06. Brute Beast
07. Aruna, Sunmonger
08. Second Dawn
Courtesy of Hammerheart Records:
Australian doom outfit King Zog make a late bid for the Iron Throne! Iommic riffs, seismic bottom-end and thundering rhythms. Their new album »Second Dawn« is now available for streaming on the Hammerheart Records YouTube channel. For fans of Pallbearer, Black Sabbath, Trouble, Windhand and Electric Wizard!
The physical release date is set for February 21, 2025 on CD and deluxe gatefold LP (on yellow vinyl)! Pre-order: kingzog.lnk.to/seconddawn
King Zog’s 2017 debut album inducted a new titan into the underworld of doom, earning unilateral fandom and critical praise for its devotional offering to the gods of metal. Songs like »Temple’s Temple«, »Man-sized Rotisserie« and »Witchsmoker« sounded the way Dominic Sohor’s iconic album artwork looked; fiery and ferocious.
Photo by Caris Bingemann
Since the arrival of this musical leviathan, King Zog have worked on a tireless mission. The line up of Daniel Durack (vocals/guitar), Connor Pitts-West (guitar), Martin Gonzalez (bass) and Sean Ryan (drums) haven’t wasted a single day, hunkering down to write album #2 during the pandemic and performing relentlessly once the lockdowns lifted.
The reward for their toil is soon to be unveiled, with »Second Dawn« due for release on Hammerheart Records early 2024. Bigger, heavier and doomier than its predecessor, King Zog’s second album is everything fans want it to be: a rampaging bull of Iommic riffs, seismic bottom-end and thundering rhythms. Downtuned and distorted, the crushing weight of »Second Dawn«’s music is raised up by undiluted, unadulterated vocal hooks. Like the eternal journey of Sisyphus up the mountain, »Second Dawn« is a show of otherworldly strength, each song ascending in sheer force before thudding back to Earth, ready to start anew. From its blistering opener »Scelestic Dusk« to its closing title track, »Second Dawn« is a voyage through cyclonic seas… introducing fans to instant doom classics like »Rat King« and »Brute Beast«, whose names do well to serve their ghoulish nature.
Now the go-to doom band in their Western Australian hometown of Perth, King Zog are looking out to the horizon as they ready to set sail in support of »Second Dawn«. From headlining sold-out shows, to touring the east coast of the sunburnt country, to tearing the roof off every heavy music festival that blows into town, King Zog have become the monster their debut album promised them to be. Now they begin to ink the next chapter in their continuing odyssey… now is the time of their »Second Dawn«.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well