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Sunn O))) team with Steve Albini for two new albums, touring

Drone metal greats Sunn O))) have announced two new albums recorded with Steve Albini: Life Metal, which will be out in April via Southern Lord, and the “more meditative” Pyroclasts, which will be ...
Yahoo

“I don’t think any song had less than 130 tracks of guitar”: Sunn O)))’s new album might set a record for guitar layers

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Charles Peterson ...
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Sunn O))) Channels Nature and Mark Rothko On Latest Record

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunn O))). (Credit: Charles Peterson) Seeing a Sunn O))) concert is somewhat like being in a sensory deprivation chamber. The ...
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Sunn O))) & Ulver release clip from upcoming collaborative LP

Back in November, we received word that American drone masters Sunn O))) and Norse avant-garde stalwarts Ulver would be collaborating on an LP titled Terrestrials. Some more details and a very brief ...
MetalSucks

Sunn O))) Collab with Sub Pop Records on Special 7″ Release

Sunn O))) always seem to have something up their sleeve, and now, it’s a collaboration with Seattle label Sub Pop Records to release a seven-inch. The band are the latest participants of the label’s ...
MetalSucks

Show Review: The Sunn O))) Show on Nov. 25 Engulfed the Bay Area in a Wall of Sound

On a cold (for the Bay Area’s standards) evening, just two days after Thanksgiving and when most decent folks are still gorging on turkey leftovers, a collection of black clad heavy music aficionados ...
Stereogum

Sunn O))) Announce New Self-Titled Album: Hear “Glory Black”

Slow down. Turn the lights off. Light a candle. The long-running black-robed Seattle experimental drone duo Sunn O))) are ready to drop a new album, and you can't possibly hope to absorb their music ...
Nashville Scene

The crushingly strange world of Sunn O)))

While forming Sunn O))), the two had already decided that the deepest, darkest guitar tone had already been found and that Dylan Carlson laid it down on Earth's second record, a three-song, 73-minute ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

Sunn O))) underwhelms with by-the-numbers drone doom on ‘Kannon’

Fans of the drone metal genre most commonly seek out a massive, thick and overbearing atmosphere in their music. Something that will overtake the mind and allow one to become suspended in a seemingly ...
Exclaim!

Sunn O))) Made Getting Crushed by Sound Fun in Toronto

Last night (April 14), on the heels of their latest effort, the self-titled Sunn O))), the band returned to Toronto for the ...
Chicago Reader

Sunn O))) are one with nature on their new self-titled album

In the world of avant-garde heavy music, Sunn O))) are like a colossal black stone island in the middle of a river—the currents of trends and subgenres burble and flow so swiftly around them it can ...