Sunn o))) C/D, S&D.

The new one is too fast!

I think Sunn O))) are the Charlie Chaplin of metal

Khanate get better with each release. I never listen to the debut, but Things Viral was brilliantly death-marchy, and the new one sort of combines the styles of the two prior releases into their best effort to date. The first track is seriously terrifying; I might play it to scare off trick-or-treaters tonight.

Yeah, that was the first I heard from them as well, and very good it is.

They are a little too harrowing for home listening. But live...amazing.

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Oh well High On Fire supporting Mastodon on their UK tour will need to suffice for now :)

i wasnt even drunk when i wrote that ;-)

it's true though, the way they exaggerate every aspect of metal in a sublime way reminds me of him....

ah! I kind of get it now. :)

Khanate = I've only heard the new record, and I like it a lot....reminds me of The Necks if they played drone metal...I definitely want to track down the earlier stuff...to anyone who has them...is it all worth getting?

btw, pdf....khanate will make those trick or treaters piss their pants...go for it!

Ah, you were there? V. cool.

From what I could hear of them through the walls, rather loud.

More amp-gazing than shoe-gazing; the time I saw them at Tonic (being gently sprinkled with dust shaken loose from the rafters the whole time), they spent the whole set facing their amps, never once turning around to look at the audience. That night there were four of them - two guitarists and a bassist, and one person on keyboards which were laid flat on the stage, so he/she was hunched on knees and elbows to play. (Still not looking at the crowd.)

upcoming shows include - whitehouse, earth, sunn o)))

http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=9859

even though the band sights earth and melvins as their biggest influences this guy wants to make it seem like Sunn0)))'s music comes from nowhere - just these two crazy metal guys.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/magazine/28artmetal.html

Exactly.

This most recent live show is the best I've ever seen em. One of the coolest looking shows I've ever attended.

Flight Of The Behemoth still hasn't been bloody reissued!

Didn't even know it was out of print.

vinyl i mean

I have a promo CD of it and I dont have $200 to spend on the vinyl.

Most of my Sunn o))) is on vinyl so I'd rather like to have this album on the same format as the others.

i expect i said all that way upthread years ago too when I started this thread and i'm still waiting

Maybe I'll just get one of those japanese 2CD versions if they're good quality. Do you have that, Phil?

No, the only Japanese editions I have are Kannon and Terrestrials. Didn't bother getting this new one because it doesn't come with a bonus disc like Kannon did. But the two that I do have are nice mini-LP packages, so in general I'd recommend going that route. If you decide to do that I ordered mine from the Inoxia label shop, where Flight is about 25 pounds (you're in England, right?).

heh almost (that country to the north) but the UK is being a bastard with grabbing stuff at the customs which adds on a £8.50 post office charge plus whatever the VAT is) so probably better buying within UK or the EU before Brexit. but thanks anyway!

I love this so much

I haven't listened to the Ensemble Pearl album since the year it came out. That said, it made my year-end list, and I remember fucking loving it.

They didn't seem to be offering a CD of Pyroclasts (which comes out this Friday) in the US so I ordered it from Japan, and then decided I might as well order the Japanese CD of Life Metal just so they'd match on my shelf. The CDs haven't shipped yet, but I just got WAV files of the new one from a publicist and it's pretty great. Each track is almost exactly 11 minutes long, and they're a little more minimal — there only seems to be one or two things going on at a time, rather than three or four, and they're entirely instrumental, no sound effects or anything — and droney. Definitely from the same sessions/creative mindset as Life Metal, though.

I do prefer it when they spice their sound up a bit, I must say. I love them, but I know what Sunn O))) sound like by now, so why no return to the (relative) maximal work of Monoliths?

that said, I'm listening to Life Metal for the first time now and it's really good

I'm excited to hear this, but I'm really annoyed it's not getting a domestic CD release (not sure I'm ready to pay $30 for the import). Seems odd to announce these as a pair of albums and not issue them in the same formats.

Life Metal is great. I look forward to the new one.

I'm excited to hear this, but I'm really annoyed it's not getting a domestic CD release (not sure I'm ready to pay $30 for the import). Seems odd to announce these as a pair of albums and not issue them in the same formats.

Yeah, that is a really baffling and annoying choice/gesture on their part.

I feel I've listened to enough Sunn O))) for now. Their live show a few months ago didn't inspire and I don't feel the desire to put on their records. I imagine in five years time I'll be in the mood again.

I thought the live show was pretty good, if about 15 - 20 minutes too long for my tastes. I think a prior show I'd seen at a festival was more varied but even longer, and I ducked out for part of the middle of that one.

the live show I saw was very underwhelming. they'd moved venue at last minute and I got the impression it wasn't cut out for that kind of volume.

Saw them in April and it was my favorite show of theirs I've seen. The light and fog show finally caught up to the level their sound has been on all this time. I loved it. Looking forward to this but right now im going into it like it's a bonus disc.

Pyroclasts is super good

Stephen O'Malley confirmed on Twitter that Japanese Daymare version will be "the only CD version which will be published of this album". Which means this will be the first Sunn O))) album in... ever... I won't be purchasing.

Shit, if they're gonna do region-exclusive CDs, how about a Japanese CD of Dømkirke? That album rules, and I'd buy one in a minute. As it is, all I have are the digital files from Bandcamp.

sounds like its really only a special tour album but they know people get gouged on eBay for it so to kill the JC's* of this world they make it available everywhere

*Notorious twat on the old SL and VLV boards who paid people to snap up limited editions of everything ever to sell at inflated prices on his various eBay stores then boasted about it

Just received the CD repressing of La Mort Noir Dans Esch/Alzette they released as fundraiser for Justin Bartlett's cancer fund. Had never heard this before. It's from a year before the Domkirke set, sort of similar lineup - though Malefic on vox instead of Attila, no Marhaug and adds Dylan Carlson on extra guitar. It's a pretty killer set.

So Greg Anderson has a new project with Petra Haden and they will be performing their first live (free) concert next week at [url= https://fulcrumfestival.org/exhibit/opening-reception-for-fulcrum-festival-deep-ocean-deep-space]Zebulon in LA [ /url].

It’s the kickoff event for Fulcrum Festival. The following week there will be [url= https://fulcrumfestival.org/exhibit/freq_wave-pacific-los-angeles]sound installation at Mt Wilson Observatory[ /url] that Greg also collaborated on (along with Lawrence English, Jonsi, Richard Chartrier and others).

Apologies for the distractingly bad formatting in the post above but in any case, two things coming up in the next two weeks that Greg is involved in. Full disclosure I’m involved with the org putting it together - it’s going to be a rare/great series of events!

Thanks for the reminder to pre-order that album, I dug the first Lord album well enough but the addition of Petra Haden sounds like a great move.

Is the Observatory thing just going to basically be a drone you can check out at any time that weekend?

Is the Observatory thing just going to basically be a drone you can check out at any time that weekend?

― Histoire de BradNelson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 9, 2022 bookmarkflaglink

There is an event on the evening of 9/23 that will include live performances from Lawrence English and a couple others. That event is limited capacity with tix $50 or $100. The rest of the weekend you could go for free and it will be more like an art installation.

Whiney or any other writers in LA, there is also a press event on that Thursday if you’re interested. You can write me at sjtennent@gmail if you’re interested.

Do you have a link to the LE event?

https://fulcrumfestival.org/exhibit/ocean-x-space-a-special-evening-of-sounds-and-stars/

Fulcrum Arts and Mount Wilson Observatory present a very special evening of sonic immersion and star gazing with performances by freq_wave artists Lawrence English and Minoru Sato. The performances will be followed by an evening of star gazing through the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, all while immersed in the sonic landscape of CM von Hausswolff‘s freq_wave (Pacific; Los Angeles) installation.

Lawrence English will open the night with the world-premiere diffusion of his 2022 release, ‘Oseni, composed of field recordings of the Pacific Ocean, which English has captured over the past decade and a half in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

Minoru Sato will perform Half dream for an ancient harmony of three to two (2020), a piece based entirely on sine waves as the single sound source and composed using an original 25-tone scale based on Pythagorean tuning (also known as sanfen sunyi in Chinese music theory).

Due to the limited capacity of this unique venue, tickets are strictly limited to 100 concert tickets and 25 concert + observation tickets.

Ahhhh, this sounds sick

Did anyone else see the winter 2022-23 tour? I went last night to Denver and felt like my DNA had been rearranged after the show. Easily among the top five or six loudest bands I've ever seen (although this was my second time). The concert felt like a cross between a religious ritual and performance art. A mind-blowingly intense and overwhelming experience.

yeah, I saw them a month or so ago here. pretty memorable. set off the fire alarms three or four times.

At the Gothic? Yeah, that would be a rad place to see them.

I was at the Philly show, though after the first 20-25 minutes I spent the rest of the set seated out in the lobby because it was a standing affair and I was afraid the intensity would cause me to pass out.

L.A. is sold out but idk how I feel about big crowds in the post Covid era

What if it was all but impossible to see or hear the person next to you?

I was standing right behind the front-row folks and could barely see anyone around me through the insanely dense fog.

I'm guessing the show is still relatively close to the late 2019 iteration and that was intense!

I did end up taking a short hallway break. It was during a festival, though, and I'd honestly felt satiated with fifteen minutes left