Acclaimed UK Sludge/Doom band Kurokuma has announced their very first full-length album -“Born of Obsidian” will arrive February 4th, 2022! The band has previously put out a collections of singles, EPs, and split releases with other bands such as Conan, Granule, and Under. The new album will release on Bandcamp, other streaming DSPs, CD and custom cassettes on the day of release, with a vinyl version set to arrive summer of 2022. UPDATE: The band has shared a new single – “Jaguar” and pre-orders are live. We’re looking forward to some brutal new jams soon but in the meantime check out the album credits below.
KUROKUMA Brings The Psych-Heavy Grooves With New Song "Jaguar"
Pre-order: https://kurokumauk.bandcamp.com/album/born-of-obsidian
Tracklisting:
- Smoking Mirror
- Sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli
- Jaguar
- Ololiuqui
- Under the Fifth Sun
Born of Obsidian is the first full length release by Kurokuma since their inception. This aural codex represents the sum of the Sheffield-based entity’s victories, struggles and experiences thus far.
The album’s five tracks are thematically bound, with each allegorically channeled through Mesoamerican myth and blood-soaked history. The result is a savage album, unmoored from the spirit of the age, summoning an essence at once unseeing yet all-knowing.
Now dig beneath the thin crust of civilisation, and bear witness to the blood of the Earth.
Recorded by Sanford Parker at Narcissus Studio
Mixed by Chris Butterworth
Mastered by James Plotkin
Tigrisoma mexicanum recorded by Manuel Grosselet
Artwork by Mila K