[ Southern Lord / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 4 December 2015
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'Monoliths & Dimensions', the seventh Sunn O))) album, continues the monolithic low-end throb & stentorian guitar drones the duo are best known for, and features an array of past collaborators plus brand new guests.
Practitioners of the glacial school of extreme-volume music, Sunn O))) are the leading exponents of doom, the darkest and heaviest of all metal sub genres. While the group's black-cloaked garb & ritual theatrics have firmly aligned them to the imagery + aesthetic of metal, leader Stephen O'Malley's numerous forays into noise & experimental music, and member Greg Anderson's sideline as label head of Southern Lord (the leading label for adventurous metal) has fashioned the duo as gatekeepers to metal's uncharted paths.
'Monoliths & Dimensions', the seventh Sunn O))) album, continues the monolithic low-end throb & stentorian guitar drones the duo are best known for, and features an array of past collaborators (Attila Csihar + Oren Ambarchi) plus brand new guests, Julian Priester (trombonist for Herbie Hancock & Sun Ra); Dylan Carlson (Earth); and avant-garde composer and violinist Eyvind Kang.
Sunn O))) are: Greg Anderson & Stephen O'Malley.
"They expand their ambitions and make some startling jazz-ensemble noises on their seventh album..."
-SPIN
"It takes one of the world's most lauded loud bands and rearranges its game with an inspiring cycle of risk & reward."
-PITCHFORK
"Maximum volume yields maximum results."
-SUNN O)))
"Little short of transcendental."
-THEQUIETUS.COM
"...light is the new heavy."
-SPIN
"An intricate wonderland."
-PITCHFORK
"...long, demonic meditations."
-THE NEEDLE DROP
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