Monday, September 21, 2009
Music news Sunn O))) moves mountains with apocalyptic sound
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:23 PM
No band on Earth has harnessed the apocalyptic power and elegance of drone with as much glacial force as Sunn O))). What began in the mid-’90s as a nod to the dark-ambient guitar drones of Olympia, Wash.’s post-grunge anomaly Earth, Sunn O))) (pronounced sun) grew into a spectacle of smoke and rumbling decibels as the group’s core members Stephen O’Malley and bassist Greg Anderson adorned themselves in long, black robes, creating a scene at their shows pulled straight from Dante’s Inferno.
Over the years, the group has incorporated dozens of collaborators and grown to become a dominant force in the trenches of black metal and the avant-garde. But with the group’s members spread out across the globe, getting them together on the same continent is a chore no less monumental than the doom-laden riffs Sunn O))) wields.
(Photo courtesy Seldon Hunt)
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