KING ZOG

KING ZOG are:
Daniel Durack – vocals, guitar
Connor Pitts-West – guitar
Martin Gonzalez – bass
Sean Ryan – drums

discography:
2017 King Zog Full-length
2024 Second Dawn Full-length

DEBUT ALBUM REVIEWS FROM 2017:
Andrew Rennie, Distorted Sound Mag:
“An outstanding addition to the doom metal scene. 9/10.”
Carl Fisher, gbhbl.com:
“One of the best doom releases this year.”
Pete Pardo, Sea Of Tranquility:
“I can’t imagine this band being unsigned for long. 4/5.”
Justin Wittenmeier, Metal Temple:
“Apologies to my girlfriend but can I marry this album? Because I’m absolutely in love with it.”
Skulls N Bones:
“This is a sludgy steamroller of a record.”
No Clean Singing:
“Swampy, bluesy, narcotic – heavier than the crowd at a Denny’s all-you-can-eat buffet.”
Dave Mullins, themusic.com.au:
“Perfectly executed songs blending the heaviness of ‘70s metal with psychedelia and sludge.”
Billy Goate, Doomed & Stoned.com:
“An enjoyable ripper from end-to-end.”
Distorted Sound Mag:
“Everything the doom or sludge metal fan could ask for.”

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.
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 mid-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‘.