Swedish sludge and doom band Kongh are ending a nearly ten-year hiatus with Staining the Ether, their first piece of new music since touring alongside acts like Meshuggah and Yob. Released with a lyric video via Trust No One Recordings, this ten-minute single is a specially edited version of a staggering nineteen-minute track found on their upcoming fourth album, Dissolved in Time, which arrives on September 25th.

Founding member David Johansson, who also spent years as a touring guitarist for Cult of Luna, accumulated the ideas for this material over the last decade. The lyrics bypass nostalgia to study time, decay, and personal isolation, treating the passage of ten years as a canvas for endurance and structural change.

The music relies on a balance of massive weight, hypnotic repetition, and quiet restraint. To expand their foundational doom sound, Kongh integrate new electronic textures into the dense arrangements, letting the song shift through different sonic layers.

Staining the Ether re-establishes the band’s presence, providing a direct point of entry into the expansive material on Dissolved in Time.

Tracklist:

01. Staining the Ether (18:51 min)

02. Guided to The End (07:02 min)

03. Dissolved in Time (13:21 min)

Photo by Malin Helenius