SUNN O))) is proud to present their 7th studio album, after 10 years of existence, entitled Monoliths & Dimensions. The album showcases the core guitar duo - Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson - incorporating influences from a plethora of guest musicians, bringing the SUNN O))) sound to epic new levels. The band also collaborated with composer Eyvind Kang (notable for his work with John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, etc.) on various acoustic ensembles, in addition to the Helios fueled electric guitars and basses. Key players on the album include Australian guitar genius Oren Ambarchi, enigmatic Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar (Mayhem, Tormentor, etc.) and slow music godfather Dylan Carlson (Earth), as well as Julian Priester (worked with Sun Ra in the 50s, John Coltrane’s African Brass band, and Herbie Hancock’s Sextant band) and new-music horn player Stuart Dempster. There's also an upright bass trio, French & English horns, harp & flute duo, piano, brass, reed & strings ensembles, and a Viennese woman's choir led by Persian vocal savant Jessika Kenney.
The album is not "SUNN O))) with strings" or "metal meets orchestra" material. The band took an approach concentrating on more of allusion toward the timbre of feedback and the instruments involved, so the piece is really illusory, beautiful and not entirely linear, stating that the end product is "the most musical piece we’ve done, and also the heaviest, powerful and most abstract set of chords we've laid to tape" The album was recorded and mixed by Randall Dunn & Mell Dettmer at various points over the last 2 years. As can be expected the packaging for this album is beautiful and appropriately compliments the audio content. Jewel case is sheathed by a velum O-card. Expansive 24 page booklet with velum cover and specially coated heavy-weight paper. Truly a site to behold!
Monoliths & Dimensions is practice in density, gravity and momentum.
Monoliths & Dimensions track listing:
1. Aghartha (17:34) 2. Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] (09:43) 3. Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) (10:02) 4. Alice (16:21)
MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS.
*The cd is available by itself or available with shirt or sweatshirt for a special "package" price.
*All cd orders receive sunn 0)))-Monoliths & Dimensions badge!
It's out in the UK now. Anyone heard it?anyone want to give me their vinyl promo? :)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
best album since Flight of the Behemoth no lie
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/04/sunn_o_leaks_mo.php
PSYCHED FOR THIS
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
It really is a great record. Most Sunn albums don't work at home on a stereo, but I can really see myself actually pulling this one out and listening to it.
― unperson, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
i may have to get this
― sorry for british (country matters), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone giving away or selling their promo vinyl?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really can't wait to hear this.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mine hasn't arrived yet; I'll let you know.
― unperson, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Agharta" !!
― the insane Dr. Morbius and his HOOSical steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i recognize its unlikely that this is a miles davis cover im just pleased at the confluence
― the insane Dr. Morbius and his HOOSical steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
been looking for this. really psyched.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
The album is full of Miles Davis references, 'The Big Church' being one as well.
That said the name of the track Agartha is down to the fact that Davis and Csihar are/were both obsessed by hollow earth theory rather than O'Malley and Anderson being heavily into electric jazz fusion.
― Doran, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
this band is fucking terrifying.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
STOKED
― Love is a Battletoad (circa1916), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been excited to fuck about this for a while now and I'm getting to the stage where I fear it will only disappoint. Still: everything I read about it makes it sound like one of the best fucking things ever, so ...
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
village voice article makes me drooool
psyched for this
― rizzx, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 08:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is a really, really amazing record. by some way sunn o)))'s most ambitious and engaging record. each track is a stunner, but 'big church' and 'alice' are particularly incredible. kang's input is really apparent, and utterly invaluable.
incidentally, not only is miles referenced on this album, but 'alice' is a direct nod to mrs coltrane.
― m the g, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
in other words, the buzz is really justified in this case...
― m the g, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Album of the year?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's mine so far.
― Doran, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
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― LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ODE TO JOY EURO TRANCE REMIX (Future_Perfect), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only comment on that vv article
has this leaked?
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nice wee piece in the current Plan B (May 2009) going through it track by track with O'Malley & Anderson.
― krakow, Wednesday, 13 May 2009 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
listened this morning. first track seemed pretty standard sunn. not bad, but nothing on here to match all the jazzbo hyperbole.
fell asleep for the next two, lol.
woke sometime during "alice." seemed cool.
― picture me lolin' (Alan N), Friday, 15 May 2009 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Part-way through a first listen -- I've not heard Alice yet -- I'm sadly disappointed. I wanted huge, zero-gravity captivation and what I get is a Sunn O))) record with bells and whistles ... it's like all the choirs and horns and so on have just been slapped on the top, rather than becoming an integral, miasmic part of the sound.
I don't listen to stuff like this because I've got a hard-on for heaviness: I listen to it because, at its best, it's transcendently beautiful. This has a couple of moments where it's touched that so far, but really: so much less than the sum of its parts.
A grower? Maybe. Doubt it, though.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Monday, 18 May 2009 13:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
grimly i plan to use the phrase 'hard-on for heaviness' whenever ppl ask me what kind of music i like
have been soooo broke, so have yet to spring for this but will prob weaken come payday - but im worried that the record i'm imagining is better than the one that Sunn O))) made, to paraphrase ts eliot
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 18 May 2009 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ward, I'd be privileged for you to do that :)
And yes, I think that's exactly what I did: imagined something that maybe was never going to exist. Still, I've actually just been discussing it with a colleague (a colleague who's excitedly rushing home with his newly imported Omar Rodriguez Lopez album): he hasn't heard it, is waiting for the vinyl and wasn't put off by my moaning at all. Good.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Monday, 18 May 2009 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Simon please read http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6220&start=610
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hahahah. I absolutely appreciate that: I mean, I hadn't even listened to the whole thing when I posted that first message, which is pretty unforgivable.
And I'm not for one second saying: "Here, this is shit." Alice continued in the vein I sort-of expected and I stand by my original verdict -- disappointed -- but that's about me and my expectations, not necessarily this record, which I think I'd raised to impossible levels in my mind.
Three other points:
1) Despite all that, I'm looking forward to listening again. That's something I didn't expect when I posted this afternoon.
2) When I finished listening, it took me ages to find something I wanted to listen to next; it certainly creates a strong mood in its wake.
3) I haven yet concentrated on it, for want of a better word; immersed myself, if you like.
The bottom line is that I don't think it's ever going to live up to my absurd expectations. But whose fault is that? (Clue: mine.)
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Monday, 18 May 2009 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
what I get is a Sunn O))) record with bells and whistles ... it's like all the choirs and horns and so on have just been slapped on the top, rather than becoming an integral, miasmic part of the sound.
― Doran, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
XD
― mastotmdom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
what I get is a Sunn O))) record with bells and whistles
dude this has been EVERY sunno))) record since Flight of the Behemoth. It's like jazz albums. Sunn with Oren Ambarchi. Sunn with Julian Cope. Sunn with Xasthur. If they didn't it would just be 8 albums of BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I think this is the most seamless of the lot.
― mastotmdom (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
'Big Church (Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért)' is absofuckinglutely WOW
― Dingy Boat McCrap Crap (Mister Craig), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I liked "Big Church (Argybargypuddingandpie)" except for the middle section that is just BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
This is the end of my trying to like Sunn O))) on record. Just doesn't work for me, though I'd still see them live.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 22:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would like confirmation of when the vinyl is coming out. Id rather have it on vinyl than cd. But usually the vinyl is like 6 months later forcing everyone to buy it on cd.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 23 May 2009 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
first listen and this is pretty good, love these trombones. Alice really sounds like Alice which is sweet.
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
This should be sitting in my mailbox when I get home tonight, cannot wait.
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is friggin' great.
― Duke, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah. Is anything else of theirs this good?
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah. Is anything else of theirs this good?― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 19:45 (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Well, it's early days, but I'm beginning to think this might be their best. But I'm not too precious about them moving away from the heavy drones of previous albums (great as they were), combining the vestiges of drones past with adventurous arrangements of choral vocals, horns etc.
But, to answer your question, the last Sunn O))) album, the Black One is absolutely fantastic, if a different beast to Monoliths & Dimensions. More more indebted to black metal in its musical ideas, moods artwork etc, but still using digital sound textures as well as the guitar drones. Closer "Báthory Erzébet" has to be one of the finest pieces of the past few years. Classic.
― Duke, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm liking everything but these stupid vocals.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is anything else of theirs this good?
They've only become a viable studio concern in the last couple of years, but you should definitely get Black One and Oracle, if you can find it. The former is, as described above, their black-metal-influenced album; I think they go too far in that direction, but mine is a minority opinion. Oracle's first track is sort of their tribute to Einstürzende Neubauten (Joe Preston plays jackhammer, and Attila Csihar's vocals are very Blixa-esque). Those two, and this new one, are the only Sunn discs made to be listened to in your home.
― unperson, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
just got this and skipped ahead straight to "alice." i'm at work, so the volume's not as high as it should be, but whoa.
― mte, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Very good album. Been listening to it on and off all week.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
when the horn (horns?) come in about halfway through, that's when i decided o listen to it over and over again.
― mte, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm just back from a week in Rhodes and I spent an unlikely amount of time lying on a beach listening to this ... I'm increasingly fascinated, but still can't quite get it to "work" for me. Yet.
I'll happily admit there are many nuances I missed on the first listen -- while there are some bits of the sound that still jar with me (there's one moment in Alice that makes me think of horror-movie soundtracks, and not in a good way) there is a lot more subtlety to the horns etc than I first realised. As Kerr says, it's a grower. I'm sticking with it, certainly.
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 28 May 2009 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
O_O
― Oym a cripe... Oym a weer-dew... (circa1916), Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Okay, I've had this since Tuesday but I didn't listen to it until tonight because I wanted an uninterrupted listening experience on my good headphones. This is absolutely fantastic. "Alice" is easily the most gorgeous thing they have ever done.
― the sideburns are album-specific (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 May 2009 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
the vinyl art is BEAUTIFUL, but when dealing with a sound so pure, the occassional static electricity "pop" is mad distracting
― ke$nan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 January 2010 14:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
don't want to hate (ok, maybe a little bit) but the sunn o))) back catalog is approx 1/1000th 1000x as cool as steely dan's.
Fixed (with apologies).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
there are, unbelievably, more similarities between the two bands than you'd first think
― Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11 attacks (acoleuthic), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:16 (7 months ago) Permalink
do tell...
― ' ( *_*) ERROR HANDLING (^_^ ) (Alan N), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
This sounds like a good feature.
― Doran, Monday, 11 January 2010 15:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
1) Just two main dudes.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
two auteur dudes working with motley virtuoso performers and making loads of witty cracks and being quite aloof and making well-regarded 'serious music' and being slightly enigmatic
― Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11 attacks (acoleuthic), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah, I can see that
― ' ( *_*) ERROR HANDLING (^_^ ) (Alan N), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
but you have to admit that behind the music: monoliths & dimensions would not be as entertaining.
― ' ( *_*) ERROR HANDLING (^_^ ) (Alan N), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
really can't be so sure about that! this attila dude seems like a laughriot
― Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11 attacks (acoleuthic), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
haha
― ' ( *_*) ERROR HANDLING (^_^ ) (Alan N), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.there is absolutely no denying the nirvana that can be attained from a well conceived and packaged vinyl release.
― Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 11 January 2010 15:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
this attila dude seems like a laughriot
You don't know the half of it. He's a loon, in the Julian Cope mold, and a blast to interview.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Monday, 11 January 2010 19:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
Slept on this for months, as much as I admire Sunn o)))'s earlier stuff, their schtick was more of an "interesting concept" to me than something I'd like to listen to on a regular basis. M&D though is bloody fantastic and it's fast become the kind of album where nothing else quite hits the spot. Rather than a Doom Metal album, I like to think of it as an instrumental alternative to Scott Walker's "The Drift". Helps that I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula at the same time and the two are becoming inseparable in my mind.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 14:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
How does the vinyl version sound? I notice Whiney sez go for the cd because of the occasional staticky pop... I played a side from the Sunn o)))/Boris vinyl a few nights go and yet despite being barely played, it was all pops and crackles - it sounded like what they told us all vinyl sounded like when they were making us switch to cd. It made me wonder whether this was a nice quiet pressing or another one like that, and at £30 from my local vinyl store, that's a heck of an outlay if I'm actually going to enjoy the cd more. (I've played this on MP3 for too long, I need to sound-up.)
― Officer Pupp, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 15:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
I proclaim this record [and band] a titanic glacier of delights.
― ImprovSpirit, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 18:15 (3 months ago) Permalink
I haven't really expressed my love for this album enough on ILM. Its become my go to album for halfway between awake and sleep. Especially "Alice". Incredible album.
― gman59, Friday, 14 May 2010 18:49 (3 months ago) Permalink
I should buy this today.
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 18:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
And on vinyl
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 May 2010 18:54 (3 months ago) Permalink
Rather than a Doom Metal album, I like to think of it as an instrumental alternative to Scott Walker's "The Drift".
^ A review that will really push me to go out & buy a record, for real.
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:17 (3 months ago) Permalink
psst psst
You sound like a hipster trying to justify buying a metal album.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:20 (3 months ago) Permalink
:)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:22 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah, because i haven't spent most of my music buying money on metal records this year ;-)
― my baby's got the bans (ksh), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:22 (3 months ago) Permalink
You sound like a hipster trying to justify buying a metal album
I don't think it is a metal album, really. Sunn O))) have gone beyond metal.
― anagram, Friday, 14 May 2010 19:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
Doom/drone metal, more than anything else -- though I agree plenty of outside genre influence is there.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
It was awhile back when Ned called it some of the best Ambient he's heard in awhile. I agree. Despite sounding like it was recorded in hell I listen to this primarily when drifting off to sleep. And I mean that in a really good way.
― gman59, Friday, 14 May 2010 19:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
this record is great, idk if it's metal or not or who really gives a fuck
― you better check that sausage before you put it in the rofl (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:54 (3 months ago) Permalink
then its settled
― gman59, Friday, 14 May 2010 19:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
i'm the judge judy of art metal
― you better check that sausage before you put it in the rofl (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 14 May 2010 19:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
Given that metal is more of an aesthetic than a clearly defined sound, I'd say that it's metal. There's a whiff of 'it's too awesome to be metal' about some of these posts. Of course it works as ambient music, something they nod at themselves by ironically terming their stuff 'Power Ambient'. But then most metalheads I know use death metal to chill out to and as background nodding off music.
I listened to it yesterday and immediately thought 'Why don't I listen to this once a day?'
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 15 May 2010 15:45 (3 months ago) Permalink
I'm the Judge Anderson of art metal.
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 15 May 2010 15:46 (3 months ago) Permalink
Given that metal is more of an aesthetic than a clearly defined sound, I'd say that it's metal.
OTM. I hate, hate, hate when critics use the phrase "transcends its genre" to describe a book or album or whatever, as if they're giving a sly wink to their audience to say "yeah we know you don't like anything so crass as 'genre', but this is ok to like. No one will laugh at you if they find it on your bookshelf/record player/iPod".
Anyone who has seen them play live, particularly on the Monoliths & Dimensions tour, would struggle to argue that Sunn0))) are anything other than metal.
I am an unashamed fan of genre personally, as I think it gives context to experimentation.
― ears are wounds, Saturday, 15 May 2010 16:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
Don't care what it is, just love it (I'm with Judge Judy).
― Lostandfound, Saturday, 15 May 2010 16:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
I'm the Judge Jules of art metal.
― Duran (Doran), Saturday, 15 May 2010 17:04 (3 months ago) Permalink
fuck that kayo dot album's coming out and i don't have it
― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Saturday, 15 May 2010 19:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
does sunn 0))) have a sick drummer? no? NOT METAL. I'm the Judge Reinhold of art metal
― tylerw, Saturday, 15 May 2010 19:34 (3 months ago) Permalink
Mastodon have a sick drummer and they're less metal than SunnO)))
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 16 May 2010 13:30 (3 months ago) Permalink
I'm the Judd Nelson of art metal.
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 16 May 2010 13:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
I thought this band was the judge of art metal? (Ok, not really art metal.)
― pshrbrn, Sunday, 16 May 2010 18:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
This man is not the judge of art metal.
― Duran (Doran), Sunday, 16 May 2010 23:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
FWIW I def don't need to justify buying a metal album, althoguh my interest in it has waned over the last few years. I haven't been too impressed or felt the need to delve too deeply into ILX faves like Baronness (who sound very flimsy for a "metal" band) and Mastodon (something just irks me about them), but since falling in love with M+Ds I'm seriously thinking about subjecting myself to a metal-listening month in order to get back to my roots in some way.
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 17 May 2010 09:37 (3 months ago) Permalink
I think metal, somewhat justifiably, got a bad rep during the Big Hair & Spandex era. You even found metalheads arguing over who was genuine & who was 'false metal!' I found that phase amusing because it provided strong evidence of something I had always believed: When a candy-ass plays through big amps, it doesn't make him have balls, it just makes him a loud candy-ass. I think bands like Sunn o))), Monarch, Boris, Hey Colossus, Corrupted, etc. are closer to the spirit of the original sound, feel & spirit of H/M than False Metal boyz like Europe & Quiet Riot [as deemed by Kerraanng!! [sp?] magazine back in da day]. They also have crossover appeal to fans of drone & ambient music,which I suppose is what may be meant by 'transcending genre.' I've kinda like 'Sludge' as a vague catch-all for this sub-sub-genre...
― ImprovSpirit, Monday, 17 May 2010 18:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
ILM has covered all this before When did Doom Metal/Black Metal and the like become "hip" and why?John you were on ilx hiatus I think when this thread was active
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 May 2010 18:45 (3 months ago) Permalink
Ah - thanks pfunk! Sorry is this was poorly located, but something about some of the recent posts got me going. :-)
― ImprovSpirit, Monday, 17 May 2010 18:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
Im sure you will have plenty to say on that thread too!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 17 May 2010 18:53 (3 months ago) Permalink
I'm listening to "Aghartha" right now, and it sounds like the dude just said "I search for Derrida of clouds."
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― ksh, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:22 (3 months ago) Permalink
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― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 22:52 (3 months ago) Permalink
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― kelpolaris, Thursday, 20 May 2010 01:42 (3 months ago) Permalink