SUNN O)))

Drone Metal / Non-Metal / Metal Related • United States

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Sunn O))) (pronounced simply “Sun”) is an American drone/doom/experimental band based in New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA and formed in 1998. The band’s core members consists of Stephen O’Malley (Khanate, Burning Witch, SARIN, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Lotus Eaters, Ginnungagap, Thorr’s Hammer, Fungal Hex, KTL, Æthenor, Gravetemple) and Greg Anderson (Goatsnake, Thorr’s Hammer, Burning Witch, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Brotherhood, Engine Kid, FALSE LIBERTY, Burial Chamber Trio, Ascend). The band was formed as a tribute of sorts to Earth, another very heavy band noted as the pioneers of drone metal. G. Stuart Dahlquist currently of Asva and ex-Burning Witch performed bass on The Grimmrobe Demos and ØØ Void.

The band is named after the Sunn amplifier brand, whose logo includes a circle next to the “SUNN” banner with waves heading off to the right - reading those out as letters makes “Sunn O)))”. The read more...

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SUNN O))) Discography

SUNN O))) albums / top albums

2.59 | 10 ratings

ØØ Void
Drone Metal 2000

SUNN O))) Flight Of The Behemoth album cover

3.50 | 9 ratings

Flight Of The Behemoth
Drone Metal 2002

3.88 | 16 ratings

White1
Drone Metal 2003

4.13 | 13 ratings

White2
Drone Metal 2004

3.93 | 22 ratings

Black One
Drone Metal 2005

SUNN O))) Altar (with Boris) album cover

3.17 | 3 ratings

Altar (with Boris)
Metal Related 2006

3.52 | 15 ratings

Oracle
Drone Metal 2007

SUNN O))) Monoliths & Dimensions album cover

4.17 | 18 ratings

Monoliths & Dimensions
Drone Metal 2009

SUNN O))) The Iron Soul Of Nothing (with Nurse With Wound) album cover

3.83 | 3 ratings

The Iron Soul Of Nothing (with Nurse With Wound)
Non-Metal 2011

SUNN O))) Terrestrials (with Ulver) album cover

3.70 | 5 ratings

Terrestrials (with Ulver)
Non-Metal 2014

SUNN O))) Soused (with Scott Walker) album cover

2.70 | 5 ratings

Soused (with Scott Walker)
Drone Metal 2014

3.33 | 3 ratings

Kannon
Drone Metal 2015

3.00 | 2 ratings

Life Metal
Drone Metal 2019

3.83 | 3 ratings

Pyroclasts
Drone Metal 2019

SUNN O))) EPs & splits

3.00 | 2 ratings

Veils It White
Drone Metal 2003

SUNN O))) Cro-Monolithic Remixes For An Iron Age album cover

2.50 | 1 ratings

Cro-Monolithic Remixes For An Iron Age
Drone Metal 2004

SUNN O))) Candlewolf Of The Golden Chalice album cover

3.00 | 3 ratings

Candlewolf Of The Golden Chalice
Drone Metal 2005

2.50 | 1 ratings

Angel Coma
Drone Metal 2006

2.50 | 1 ratings

Che
Metal Related 2009

SUNN O))) live albums

4.25 | 2 ratings

Live White
Drone Metal 2004

SUNN O))) LXNDXN: Subcamden Underworld (Hallo'Ween 2003) album cover

3.50 | 2 ratings

LXNDXN: Subcamden Underworld (Hallo'Ween 2003)
Drone Metal 2004

SUNN O))) La Mort Noir Dans Esch / Alzette album cover

3.00 | 2 ratings

La Mort Noir Dans Esch / Alzette
Drone Metal 2006

4.28 | 5 ratings

Dømkirke
Drone Metal 2008

SUNN O))) (初心) GrimmRobes Live 101008 album cover

3.50 | 1 ratings

(初心) GrimmRobes Live 101008
Drone Metal 2009

SUNN O))) Live At Primavera Sound Festival 2009 album cover

3.00 | 1 ratings

Live At Primavera Sound Festival 2009
Drone Metal 2009

SUNN O))) Agharti Live 09-10 album cover

4.25 | 2 ratings

Agharti Live 09-10
Drone Metal 2011

0.00 | 0 ratings

2007.12.10, "Altar" Presentation With BORIS, Kentish Town Forum, London, UK (with Boris)
Drone Metal 2015

SUNN O))) НЕЖИТЬ: живьём в России album cover

3.50 | 1 ratings

НЕЖИТЬ: живьём в России
Drone Metal 2016

SUNN O))) demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

SUNN O))) The Grimmrobe Demos album cover

3.56 | 5 ratings

The Grimmrobe Demos
Drone Metal 1999

SUNN O))) Rehearsal Demo Nov 11 2011 album cover

3.50 | 1 ratings

Rehearsal Demo Nov 11 2011
Drone Metal 2011

3.50 | 1 ratings

LA Reh 012
Drone Metal 2014

SUNN O))) re-issues & compilations

3.50 | 1 ratings

White
Drone Metal 2006

SUNN O))) singles (1)

2.00 | 1 ratings

The Horn And The Spear (EMS Remix)
Drone Metal 2004

SUNN O))) movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)

SUNN O))) Reviews

SUNN O))) ØØ Void

Album · 2000 · Drone Metal

SilentScream213

Here’s one compliment I will give… the droning low frequencies and fuzzy feedback here could actually be pretty good white noise. That is, if you want something to fall asleep to, or even just to fill empty space if you’re the type who hates silence, or maybe to distract an overthinking mind. Yeah, I can see a practical appeal to it.

But for someone like me who requires a focused listen to provide some form of value, this has got nothing for me. The drones do absolutely nothing interesting, they don’t evoke any sort of emotion or mood, and they don’t work on building any specific atmosphere, relying entirely on feedback texture. Songwriting is nonexistent, as there’s practically no progression or structure at all to these songs. And I’m still hesitant to call this “Metal”… it’s just Drone music made using electric guitars. I don’t think an electric guitar makes something Metal.

Has some practical use as noise, but as “music,” it fails to do anything for me.

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SUNN O))) Monoliths & Dimensions

Album · 2009 · Drone Metal

Warthur

With monologues from Attila featured on three of its four tracks, one might expect Monoliths & Dimensions to follow up the approach of Black One (Black Two, in other words). It isn't quite that, and nor is it quite a followup to Oracle, an EP released in the midst of the recording sessions for this. Compared to both it's more orchestrated, more ephemeral, a more serious chase after the "monastic plainsong meets drone metal" concept than they've ever presented before, with excursions into dark ambient and even avant-garde jazz - listen, for instance, to the plaintive brass at the end of Alice, the album-closing tribute to the late Alice Coltrane, perhaps symbolising John welcoming her to eternal rest.

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SUNN O))) White2

Album · 2004 · Drone Metal

Warthur

Sunn O)))'s White2 continues the drone metal explorations of White1 but seems to come from a more serious place. There's nothing on here like the narration of My Wall from White1, for instance, which seems to be a love-it-or-hate-it aspect of that album: rather than walking a tightrope between sincerity and parody, Sunn O))) demonstrate their seriousness.

Opening track Hell-O)))-Ween is a more purist drone metal piece, whilst bassAliens takes us into a trippy space rock realm reminiscent at times of the first Tangerine Dream album. But it's the sickening void of Decay2 (Nihil's Maw), with vocals from Attila Csihár (in his first of several collaborations with the band) that points to the future, providing a sort of appetiser for the terrors of Black One.

Between them, this triptych of tracks puts paid to any suggestion that just because you play drone metal that automatically means all your material sounds the same, and it might well be Sunn O)))'s best album.

more than 2 years ago
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SUNN O))) Oracle

Album · 2007 · Drone Metal

Warthur

At points Sunn O)))'s schtick has made them seem a bit like a joke band - like they aren't quite entirely serious about what they are doing. Not so on the deeply sinister Oracle, a slice of drone metal from Hell which in either its shorter EP version (lacking Helio)))sophist) or its 80 minute monster version represents some of the most genuinely disturbing sounds Sunn O))) have ever made. Atilla Csihar guests on the first track to take his contributions to Black One just that extra step further into total, haunting depravity. Apparently this was made for an art installation, which I guess explains the somewhat more serious tone. That said, I wouldn't put it above the preceding Black One or the subsequent Monoliths and Dimensions.

more than 2 years ago
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SUNN O))) White1

Album · 2003 · Drone Metal

Warthur

Sunn O))) are not the droniest of the drone metal bands, nor the doomiest of the doom metallers. They aren't even the droniest doomers or doomiest droners, at that. Moreover, weaving through their music is this constant impression that it might all just be some huge joke; see, for instance, the way they brought in eccentric British esotericist-musician Julian Cope to provide the vocals on My Wall, which ranges in between being a genuinely sincere-sounding evocation of Odin and self-referential "heavy metal forever, long live my guitar" nonsense of the Manowar variety. But there's just something about it that hooks you, despite all.