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

quick Sunn 0))) question/comment

have you HEARD the new Oracle release? fucking great. Sunn, Boris, Earth/Melvins, and Mayhem collab? sure .... why the hell not?

thoughts?

Oracle is great.

wasn't into it. the jackhammer was annoying.

It's funny how you can track their influences over time. "Hey, Greg, you think anybody else has ever heard of this band Einsturzende Neubaten?" "Nah, we're still the coolest guys on the block, Steve..."

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I like Oracle too.

dud

why?

http://www.slimsmith.com/blastfirstpetite/sunno.html

Ooohhh...

http://www.southernlord.com/index2.php

Anyone heard the Dømkirke recordings? Haven't heard one second of it, but with Attila Csihar, Steve Moore and Lasse Marhaug on the team, it must be worth a listen.

Domkirke is badass. The first side is pretty organ heavy and has Attila Csihar basically belting Gregorian chant, and the rest is pretty "standard" Sunn 0)), but still great.

I'm going to see them tonight!!!!!!!! OMGz WTF

I got my Domkirke lp yesterday. Its great.

Btw at the current gigs theres a 3xlp of Grimm Robes Demos. It has the extra tracks on vinyl that were on the Daymare cd version. $40. My mate picked me one up.
Apparently the hoodies are very in demand and are selling out very fast as theres only a ltd amount on sale at each gig.

I love em, but I have no idea how this band convinced people to buy all this expensive vinyl

Even from a sound stand point, yes the lows are hypothetically better, but to me drones sounds best without crackles and bullshit.

Some people just prefer vinyl.

crackles are different than pops -- if you keep yr vinyl clean it'll never crackle

Most people buying the vinyl do keep it clean. They never play it! It's for ebay only..

vinyl is like investing in gold for poor people.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUNN-o-DISCOGRAPHY-MEGA-LOT-Khanate-Isis-Earth-ktl_W0QQitemZ190266295816QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item190266295816&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A570|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318

black one freaked me out a couple years back and i haven't listened to dudes since.

are the white albums any less terrifying? or should i try that Earth album Hex instead?

New album details/promo hash:

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, and will be released late May 2008. Monoliths & Dimensions is practice in density, gravity and momentum.

Monoliths & Dimensions track listing:
Aghartha (17:34)
Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] (09:43)
Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) (10:02)
Alice (16:21)

MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS.

i hope the vinyl comes out the same time as the cd. i hate the way SL tries to make you buy both formats by waiting 6mths-year between cd and lp

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Is that real, Ned, or is it just a ruse to get slowcoremetal dudes all riled up.

because consider me riled

" . . in addition to the Helios fueled electric guitars"

Mr. Creed? I guess that would be too good to be true.

It's real, their PR folks just sent it along.

Mr. Creed? I guess that would be too good to be true.

― Soukesian

they probly just mean "sun" fueled guitars, but yeah, that would be bonarz+

http://www.jazzage1920s.com/estherwalker/images/sm-If-The-Dreams-That-I-Dream-Come-True-1919.jpg

It's real. There was chat about it a few weeks back on DFFD(used to be the Southern Lord Board)

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

Does this actually mean anything, or is it just a smokescreen to cover up the fact that the record will be yet another set of empty gestures played by buffoons? I'm sure there'll be plenty of "ltd edition" versions of it though. Only $49.99 at Aquarius!

These guys can fuck right off.

what do you have against empty gestures played by buffoons?

i know. sounds poignant. like young jeezy.

Well nothing in principle, but at least make it your own empty gestures, jeez.

just ribbin ya -- i actually don't have much interaction with the whole weird collector scum culture, so it doesn't bug me all that much. I've never met anyone who's super-into all that ltd. edition psych/folk/metal/aquarius records fetishism thang -- though they must exist, right? Are they like 78 collectors?

yes, they are r. crumb

What do people actually do with a £150 (or whatever) ltd edition version of a record they already own?

play it?

Doubt it!

gaze lovingly at it?

what do people do with any of the weird shit people collect? dolls, cars, stamps, shot glasses, etc. shelve it, display it, caress it, obsess about it, buy more...

i used to buy multiples but gave up. dont think i have any multiples of sunn tho.

except for pic disk version along with the vinyl. i dont have any cds tho except for tour ones that didnt come out on vinyl.

so that wasn't a picture of your hundred and leventy million copies of the torch LP you posted? cuz i wondered...

Actually one of the cds had a bonus live disc that wasnt going to be on vinyl so i bought that. But that' not what youre talking about. I havent bought anything off ebay apart from the vinyl of white 2 which i didnt have and i only paid £20 for it anyway(sells for way over that now)

haha naw, i do have 1 of the ordinary vinyls and a pic disk. I know lots on VLV who bought the whole set though.

i do have some mastodon and high on fire doubles, but that for my pension when i retire ;)

Most people tend to buy them to ebay later once they're OOP.

I have all their vinyl up through White 2 except for Flight of the Behemoth. One of them has a big unbroken wax seal on it.

Is this stuff worth anything? The band gave me copies of everything they put out up to that point... Nice guys!