Tag: Sunn O)))

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SQÜRL: Silver Haze

SQÜRL (photo from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Anika, Boris, Carter Logan, Charlotte Gainsborg, Earth, jim jarmusch, Marissa Nadler, Philip K Dick, Randall Dunn, Sacred Bones, Six Organs of Admittance, SQÜRL, Steve Von Till, Sunn O)))

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Cosmic Cowboy: The Month with Droneroom

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 27, 2023
6 Comments on Cosmic Cowboy: The Month with Droneroom

Droneroom

Tags Blake Conley, Blake Edward Conley, Droneroom, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Echodelick Records, Histamine Tapes, Imploding Sounds, Marginal Glitch Records, Pete Fosco, Rabbit Hash, Ramble Records, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

Orme: Orme

Orme

Tags Chea Griffin Anker, Electric Wizard, Everest Queen, Greg Anderson, Jimmy Long, Luke Thelin), Matt Pike, Orme, Praetorian, Sleep, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O))), Tom Clements, Trepanation Records

Features Interviews

Tonal Intoxication: In Conversation with The Lord’s Greg Anderson and Petra Haden

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 9, 2022
7 Comments on Tonal Intoxication: In Conversation with The Lord’s Greg Anderson and Petra Haden

The Lord † Petra Haden (photo credit: Steven Perilloux)

Tags Bernard Herrmann, Bill Frissell, Earthings?, Engine Kid, Ennio Morricone, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, John Carpenter, John Williams Ian Astbury, Mike Watt, Petra Haden, Southern Lord Recordings, Sunn O))), That Dog, the cult, The Lord, The Twilight Singers, Tito & Tarantula

Album Reviews

Winterwood: Exploratory Guitar: Falling Tide

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 24, 2022
3 Comments on Winterwood: Exploratory Guitar: Falling Tide

Winterwood (photo credit: provided by the artist)

Tags East Cape Calling, Holly Winterwood, Labradford, Mark Nelson, Pan-American, Sunn O))), The Necks, William Tyler, Winterwood, Zac

Features Lost Albums

Through the Debris: 19 Years with Pelican’s Australasia

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 17, 2022
3 Comments on Through the Debris: 19 Years with Pelican’s Australasia

Pelican (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Aaron Turner, Bryan Herweg, Earth, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hydra Head, Larry Herweg, Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, Neurosis, Pelican, Sandford Parker, Sunn O))), Thrill Jockey, Trevor Shelley de Brauw

Album Reviews

The Lord: Forest Nocturne

The Lord (photo credit: Al Overdrive)

Tags Alice In Chain, Atilla Csihar, BIG | BRAVE, Brad Wood, Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, John Carpenter, Labradford, Mayhem, Neon Christ, Robin Wattie, Southern Lord Recordings, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O))), The Lord, William Duvall

Album Reviews

The Utopia Strong: International Treasure

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 2, 2022
1 Comment on The Utopia Strong: International Treasure

The Utopia Strong (photo credit: David Ryder Prangley)

Tags Bark Psychosis, gRAILS, Kavus Torabi, Mike York, Randall Dunn, Rocket Recordings, Steve Davis, Sunn O))), The Utopia Strong

Album Reviews

Mat Ball: Amplified Guitar

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 30, 2022
2 Comments on Mat Ball: Amplified Guitar

Mat Ball (photo credit: Stacy Lee)

Tags BIG | BRAVE, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Evil Greed, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lingua Ignota, Mat Ball, Obscura MFG, Seth Manchester, Sunn O))), The Body, The Garrote

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The Lord + Petra Haden announce new collaboration album

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 29, 2022
2 Comments on The Lord + Petra Haden announce new collaboration album

The Lord + Petra Haden - (photo credits: Al Overdrive (The Lord) and Steven Perilloux (Petra Haden)

Tags Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Ian Astbury, Petra Haden, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), the cult, The Lord

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Space Between Clouds: Space Between Clouds

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 28, 2022
1 Comment on Space Between Clouds: Space Between Clouds

Space Between Clouds (photo credit: Sam Johnson)

Tags Anna von Hauswolff, Beck, Cat Power, Charlotte Gainsbourg, David Ralicke, Devendra Banhart, John Cale, Kenneth James Gibson, M83, Paul McCartney, Sons Of Kemet, Space Between Clouds, Sunn O))), The Drift

News

Goatsnake announce reissue of debut LP

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 17, 2022
5 Comments on Goatsnake announce reissue of debut LP

Goatsnake (photo credit: Lisa Johnson)

Tags Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Greg Rogers, Guy Pinhas, Man's Ruin Records, Pete Stahl, Scream, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), Wool

Album Reviews

Rocio Zavala: Invisible Miracles

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 6, 2022
5 Comments on Rocio Zavala: Invisible Miracles

Rocio Zavala

Tags Allen Moore, Monastral, P.M. Tummala, Randall Dunn, Rocio Zavala, Sunn O)))

News

Greg Anderson as The Lord Announces Debut LP

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 1, 2022
4 Comments on Greg Anderson as The Lord Announces Debut LP

The Lord (photo credit: Thora Anderson)

Tags Attila Csihar, Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Petra Haden, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), The Lord, thor's Hammer

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The Jonny Halifax Invocation: Acid Blüüs Räägs: Vol. 1

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date March 29, 2022
4 Comments on The Jonny Halifax Invocation: Acid Blüüs Räägs: Vol. 1

Tags Ben Chasny, Dylan Carlson, Earth, God Unknown Records, Greg Anderson, Jason Peirce, Peter Kember, Spaceman 3, Stephen O'Malley, Sunn O))), The Jonny Halifax Invocation

Album Reviews

Boris: W – “merging old and new sound worlds”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 28, 2022
10 Comments on Boris: W – “merging old and new sound worlds”

Boris (photo credit: Yoshihiro Mori)

Tags Atsuo, Boris, Earth, Ian Astbury, ISIS, Merzbow, Michio Kurihara, my bloody valentine, Neurosis, Pelican, Sacred Bones, Sunn O))), Takeshi, the cult, Wata

Album Reviews

Anna von Hausswolff: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival – “a unique energy “

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 21, 2022
6 Comments on Anna von Hausswolff: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival – “a unique energy “

Anna von Hausswolff (photo credit: Gianluca Grasselli)

Tags Alasdair Gray, Anna von Hausswolff, David Sabel, Filip Leyman, Joel Fabiansson, Karl Vento, Maria von Hausswolff, Randall Dunn, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), Ulrik Ordin

Album Reviews

Engine Kid: Special Olympics EP – “they deliver with wicked force”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 13, 2021
9 Comments on Engine Kid: Special Olympics EP – “they deliver with wicked force”

Engine Kid (photo credit: Vaga Bond)

Tags black flag, Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Slint, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), Unwound

Album Reviews

Sunn O))): Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 26, 2021
29 Comments on Sunn O))): Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

Sunn O))) (photo credit: Ronald K Dick)

Tags Anna von Hausswolff, BBC Maida Vale, BBC6, big brave, Bottomless Pit, Greg Anderson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Samantha Keely Smith, Silk Worm, Southern Lord, Stephen Moore, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O))), Tim Midyett, Tos Nieuwenhuizen

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Gnod: La Mort Du Sens – “wrecking ball intensity”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 15, 2021
7 Comments on Gnod: La Mort Du Sens – “wrecking ball intensity”

Gnod (photo credit: via Rocket Recordings' Facebook page)

Tags David Yow, Fiona Apple, Gnod, Godlfesh, Kulk, Pavement, Rocket Recordings, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

Ivan The Tolerable: Autodidact II – “an array of styles and influences in the world of experimentation”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 26, 2021
5 Comments on Ivan The Tolerable: Autodidact II – “an array of styles and influences in the world of experimentation”

Ivan The Tolerable

Tags Alice Coltrane, Cruel Nature Records, faust, gRAILS, Ivan The Tolerable, Oli Heffernan, Six Organs of Admittance, spiritualized, Sunn O))), Tarentel

Album Reviews

Low: HEY WHAT – “turbulence and tormented beauty”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 8, 2021
27 Comments on Low: HEY WHAT – “turbulence and tormented beauty”

Low (photo credit: Nathan Keay)

Tags Alan Sparhawk, BJ Burton, Bon Iver, charli xcx, Low, Mimi Parker, Sub Pop, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

Alexis Marshall: House of Lull . House of When – “nihilistic portraits”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date July 22, 2021
4 Comments on Alexis Marshall: House of Lull . House of When – “nihilistic portraits”

Alexis Marshall (photo credit: Jeremy W)

Tags Alexis Marshall, big brave, BIG | BRAVE, Daughters, Einstürzende Neubauten, Enablers, Evan Patterson, Jaye Jayle, Jon Syverson, Lingua Ignota, Oxbow, Sargent House, Scott walker, Seth Manchester, Sunn O))), The Body, The Necks, Young Widows

Features Interviews

Sharp Ascent: In Conversation with Six Organs Of Admittance’s Ben Chasny

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 25, 2021
23 Comments on Sharp Ascent: In Conversation with Six Organs Of Admittance’s Ben Chasny

Six Organs of Admittance (photo credit: Elisa Ambrogio)

News

Engine Kid share previously unreleased song – listen here

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 18, 2021
1 Comment on Engine Kid share previously unreleased song – listen here

Engine Kid (photo credit: Samantha Daake)

Tags Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Southern Lord, Sunn O)))

News

Engine Kid announce 6xLP box set for RSD

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 9, 2021
2 Comments on Engine Kid announce 6xLP box set for RSD

Engine Kid (photo credit: Jon Cook)

Tags Art Behrman, Chris Vandebrooke, Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Iceburn, John Goodmanson, Record Store Day, RSD, Southern Lord, Steve Albini, Sunn O)))

Album Reviews

The Body: I’ve Seen All I Need To See – “an apocalyptic rumble”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 3, 2021
12 Comments on The Body: I’ve Seen All I Need To See – “an apocalyptic rumble”

The Body (photo credit: Zachary Harrell Jones)

Tags aphex twin, Dis Fig, Emma Ruth Rundle, Matt Colton, Seth Manchester, Steve Von Till, Sunn O))), The Body, The Bug, Thou, Thrill Jockey

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Jesu: Terminus – “a collage of the past”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 18, 2020
17 Comments on Jesu: Terminus – “a collage of the past”

Jesu

Tags Avalanche Recordings, Godflesh, Jesu, JK Flesh, Justin Broadrick, Low, my bloody valentine, Pale Sketcher, Red House Painters, Sunn O))), Techno Animal

Album Reviews

Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 11, 2020
7 Comments on Uniform: Shame – “a withering coalition of sounds from the darkest pits”

Uniform - (photo credit: Ebru Yildiz)

Tags Algiers, Ben Greenberg, Cormac McCarthy, Dashiell Hammet, Deafheaven, Denis Lehane, James Ellroy, Mike Berdan, Randall Dunn, Raymond Chandler, Sacred Bones, Steve Von Till, Sunn O))), The Body, Uniform

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Ex-Easter Island Head: Lodge – “an ambient, cascading wall of sound”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 10, 2020
10 Comments on Ex-Easter Island Head: Lodge – “an ambient, cascading wall of sound”

Ex-Easter Island Head (photo credit: Dr. Cathy Butterworth)

Tags Benjamin Duvall, Benjamin Fair, Ex-Easter Island Head, Jim O'Rourke, Jonathan Hering, Sunn O))), The Necks

Album Reviews

Steve Von Till: No Wilderness Deep Enough – “connecting the dots between existentialism and a dream state”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 7, 2020
5 Comments on Steve Von Till: No Wilderness Deep Enough – “connecting the dots between existentialism and a dream state”

Steve Von Till - photo credit Bobby Cochran

Tags Algiers, Harvestman, Marissa Nadler, Mount Eerie, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Nick Cave and Bad Seeds, Randall Dunn, Steve Von Till, Sunn O)))