Sunn O))): Sunn O)))

"Sunn O))) make ritual music, not casual music. Both their albums and their live shows demand you completely surrender mind and body to punishingly loud guitar drone suffused with the menace of black metal and the obstinacy of minimalist art music."

"Though it's the first one to strip their lineup down to just core members Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley, it feels like their biggest and most forbidding work yet."

"Producer Brad Wood estimates each song has at least 130 tracks of guitar, all recorded at a remote Washington cabin where the duo's amp noise could radiate through the surrounding wilderness."

"The 18-minute titans 'XXANN' and 'Mindrolling' function more like the music on Folke Rabe's or the late Éliane Radigue's Trilogie de la Mort than anything in the blackened Norwegian canon."

Sunn O))) creates ritual music that demands full surrender to their loud guitar drone, blending black metal and minimalist art. Their new self-titled album, featuring only core members Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley, is their most imposing work yet. Each song contains at least 130 guitar tracks, recorded in a remote cabin. This release marks their first with Sub Pop and follows O'Malley's marriage to composer Kali Malone. The album's lengthy tracks focus on overtones and feedback, reminiscent of avant-garde composers rather than traditional black metal.

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