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Emblazoned with the fiendish red artwork of Dominic Sohor, King Zog's debut album is an instant doom classic – a volcanic apocalypse of deep, heavy fuzz and colossal Iommic riffs. From the droning discordance of opening rime Lost At Sea, through to the triumphant finale Season In Hell, the album unveils tsunamic waves of hook after hook, captured in all their sonic glory by producer Ken Watt. Each song along the journey comes with a mammoth chorus, searing itself into the brain... Hexagram, Look Who's Torkan, Temple's Temple... hugely, brutally melodic. Bong-friendly tempos abound on Man-sized Rotisserie, Fuck Island and the punishing Liz Business – setting the stage for the third act of Bitter Wisdom and Witchsmoker. Resplendent in all the essential refinements of lore, iconography and riffery, the album is a most sincere offering to the gods of metal. Born where the Indian Ocean collides with the parched deserts of Western Australia, King Zog is the dream project of lifelong