SUNN O)))

in honor of planning the slow death of my eardrums by going to see sunn O))) and earth tomorrow at the brooklyn masonic temple [fight me there], i'm doing a sunn O))) megapost. last time i was at the masonic temple i was there to see neurosis. i drank so much i blacked out during the middle of mastodon, and i don't remember seeing neurosis at all. how much do i suck?

i know that most of the people in the world think sunn O))) is boring and stupid. incidentally, if you think anyone could smack the guitar strings and stand around for a while on stage and call it music, then why aren't you doing it? if you feel this way, this post is for you. i implore you to give them another shot. this is the kind of music you need to listen to alone and really really loud, in the dark.

i also used to think they were kind of weird and never really got into them. then one day i read an interview with stephen o'malley where he said that sometimes while they play he goes into a trance and doesn't even remember being up on stage. something about that made me way more interested and i started listening to 00 VOID a lot [which is still my favorite.] i find it really relaxing. i like their older stuff a little bit better than the newer records they've been coming out with just because they're more simple and pared down, but the newer stuff is really good, too.

also, stephen o'malley has the kind of life i can only dream about. he moved to paris, works with an awesome groundbreaking record label, and spends his days recording music, collaborating and designing really weird album art. why can't that be me?

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so here's a partial discography in chronological order [minus a few live albums].

listen [myspace]

the grimmrobe demos [1998]

00 void [2000]

flight of the behemoth [2002]

veils it white EP [2003]

white1 [2003]

white2 [2004]

cro-monolithic remixes for an iron age EP [2004]

black one special edition disc 1 [2005]
black one special edition disc 2

candlewolf of the golden chalice EP [2005]

angel coma [split with earth, 2006]

altar [collaboration with boris, 2006]

oracle EP [2007]

domkirke [2008]

monoliths + dimensions [2009]

The Descent Of The Sun - Until The Dark (2009)

ambient black doom metal....fuck

i was hoping a blackened doom act would think of a band name that involved a sun disappearing/being swallowed/dying/burning out in some form or another. the track listings account for 2 burzurm covers "Illa Tidandi" and "Gebrechilchkeit" which is odd considering its an entire album of burzurm covers. anyways if you like burzurm you have burzurm, as well as the 100 other bm bands that ripped them off all of which blew this release out of the water

i know you're sitting at home right now staring into a screen looking to hear new music, looking for a 40 minute ambient blackened doom song followed by 2 covers and a intro track that you might as well delete before you even listen to it.

this fucking cd starts with nothing and goes nowhere. ambient blackmetal can be great with bands like abyssic hate but these mother fuckers just went off the deep end of pretentiousness. 36 minutes of the same fucking atmospheric din synth fucking haunted house distorted vocal chimes in the backround, who the fuck put this album out? are you shitting me? i'd get bored fucking a pornstar to this. the film brown bunny went more places than this album did.

upsides: they successfully killed the black and white album cover of snowy trees trend that had to fucking die eventually.

their logo is hilarious including batwings and a pentagram, its like they crossed out "3 inches of blood" and put theres over it.

their album cover made me think of calvin and hobbes, their music reminds me of if calvin left hobbes on a keyboard set to "gloomy:(" and someone recorded it while calvin made dinosaur noise in the background

all in all i'd say this cd is a dullfucksaster. but if you like paint drying or youre a fusion powered space ship test astronaut and your life is so exciting and full of meaning and you need monotony or you'll end yourself i say dive on this.


DL.