“Sunn O))) appears to have found new ways into the mystic” – Chicago Tribune”an experience in sound, as frequencies rock and tremble your skin and inner organs” – Consequence Of Sound    

Following the release of their universally acclaimed Life Metal LP and the first leg of their U.S. tour last April, Sunn O))) are pleased to announce a West Coast tour in support of the album.  This September, Sunn O))) will canvas the West Coast, featuring stops at The Mayan (LA), The Fillmore (SF), The Showbox (Seattle), Revolution Hall (Portland) and more, marking their first dates out west on the Life Metal album cycle. Dates and details can be found below, with more info to surface soon.   

Sunn O))) released Life Metal, their first new album in four years, last April as part of Record Store Day via Southern Lord.  The Steve Albini-engineered album debuted on Billboard’s Emerging Artists at #17, Billboard’s Top Album Sales at #25, in Billboard’s top 25 Hard Rock Albums and received the Best New Music accolade from Pitchfork, along with other countless praise.    

Sunn O))) will play select festival shows in Europe this July, before returning to U.S. soil for the second leg of their Let There Be Drone: Multiple Gains Stages tour.  Following, Sunn O))) will head back to Europe and the U.K. this October.   Look for more news from Sunn O))) to surface soon.  

SUNN O))) – ON TOUR:Summer shows – Europe
July 30  Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg w/ Caspar Brotzmann
July 31  Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg w/ Caspar Brotzmann
August 1  Amsterdam, NL @ Dekmantel festival  

September 2019  – U.S. West Coast
September 1  Dallas, TX @ Granada *
September 2  Austin, TX @ Emo’s *
September 4  Denver, CO @ The Gothic *
September 8  Los Angeles, CA @ The Mayan *
September 9  San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore *
September 11  Seattle, WA @ Showbox ^
September 12  Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall ^  
* w/ Papa M, Big|Brave
^ w/ Papa M  

October 2019  – Europe + UK
October 7  Munich, DE @ Backstage Werk %
October 8  Karlsruhe, DE @ HfG / ZKM %
October 9  Basel, CH @ Kaserne Basel – Rosstall %
October 10  Leipzig, DE @ Felsenkeller %
October 11  Krakow, PL @ Unsound Festival
October 13  Vilnius, LT @ Kablys %
October 14  Tallinn, EE @ Vene Theatre %
October 15  Helsinki, FI @ Kulttuuritalo %
October 17  Stockholm, SE @ Kraken
October 18  Oslo, NO @ Kulturkirchen Jakob
October 19  Oslo, NO @ Blä *duo show (Greg and Stephen only)
October 21  Copenhagen, DK @ Koncerthuset
October 22  Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
October 24  Bristol, UK @ SWX
October 25  Glasgow, UK @ QMU
October 26  Birmingham, UK @ The Crossing
October 27  Manchester, UK @  Albert Hall
October 28  London, UK @  Roundhouse  
% w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem

SUNN O))) stage left guitarist Stephen O’Malley is performing five alive drone guitar solo concerts in May across select South American cities. Be there!

Buenos Aires, Argentina 8 May

https://www.facebook.com/events/2239110046177523

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 11 May

https://www.facebook.com/events/853561088330597

São Paulo, Brazil 15 May 

https://www.facebook.com/events/2293965950866586

Santiago, Chile 16 May 

https://www.facebook.com/events/284226779145666

Lima, Peru 19 May

https://www.facebook.com/events/2159599190762021

CTM Festival is proud to present the return of Sunn O))) to Berlin. This spring and summer 2019 they return to Berlin twice for the first time since 2015, in support of Life Metal, their first studio album in four years, which is to be released via Southern Lord for the first time on CD and vinyl (US) & vinyl (UK/EU) on 13th April via USA/UK/EU indie retail. The 26th April marks the official release date of the CD, digital and all other vinyl. Supporting both shows will be the singular Berlin guitarist Caspar Brötzmann. A series of his eternally grinding guitar works is currently being reissued by Southern Lord.  

On 3 April 2019, Southern Lord (Sunn O)))’s home label run by Anderson) collaborates with Ideologic Organ Music (production company run by O’Malley) to present a listening session. O’Malley will play Sunn O)))’s new record over Berghain Säule’s intensive soundsystem, before closing the night with a set as DJ Caveman Skull. Showcasing the LP’s completely analogue production and signal path, which extends from the input of the band’s amplifiers and the air coming off the speakers in front of the microphones to the needle touching the pressed vinyl on your turntable, the evening presents Life Metal in its ideal listening setting.

The listening sessions precedes two Sunn O))) live shows on 30 and 31 July at Festsaal Kreuzberg, each of which will showcase a special performance, respectively.  

03.04.2019 Berghain Säule | doors: 19:00 start: 20:00 Life Metal Listening Session with Stephen O’Malley & DJ-set by DJ Caveman Skull Presented with Southern Lord Records, Ideologic Organ, and Berghain.
Tickets  

30.07.2019 Festsaal Kreuzberg | doors: 19:00 start: 20:00 Sunn O)))
Support: Caspar Brötzmann
Tickets  

31.07.2019 Festsaal Kreuzberg | doors: 19:00 start: 20:00 Sunn O))) Support: Caspar Brötzmann
Tickets  

Since Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley formed the band in 1998, they have developed a formidable reputation for their ability to create massive wave-pools of sound that are truly livid and powerful in magnitudes of amplitude, though rarely harsh. The sounds of Sunn O))) start low and intensify incrementally until they’ve transformed the entire listening area into a vibrating chamber teeming with elegant sustain. Adding to the timeless sensory overload of the Sunn O))) experience, the band members obscure themselves in clouds of thick fog, dressing in hooded robes, periodically thrusting guitars toward the sky as they lead us into the lowest frequencies imaginable.  

Both Berlin shows will be supported by solo performances of Caspar Brötzmann, one of the most unique and innovative guitarists of the last forty years. With his Berlin-based trio Massaker, he evolved a whole new autonomous approach to writing rock songs, starting from sounds that were widely considered ornamental if not detrimental “sonic waste” such as shrieking feedback and droning overtones. Ultra-heavy riffs, unhinged beats, ominous tribal chants, and raw physical force are conjured by sinister, thrilling minds. Even today, as the art of noise has reached a level of sophistication that no one could have imagined thirty years ago, Caspar Brötzmann’s music is resoundingly singular. Starting with Brötzmann’s 1988 debut album The Tribe and its 1989 follow-up Black Axis, Southern Lord will reissue five of the remarkable guitarist’s albums throughout 2019.  

At the very beginning of 2018, Sunn O))) co-founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson set out on a path toward a new album production. They were both determined to create new music and a new method of working in the studio, but without forgetting the accomplishments forged during their first two decades of existence.  

After gathering twice last spring to write, conceptualise, and jam, in addition to holding a pre-production session at Dave Grohl’s 606 Studios together with T.O.S. on Moog, the band spent just over two weeks working at Chicago’s famed Electrical Audio Studio with Steve Albini at the helm. The results are astounding; the breadth of colour and sound are vast, impeccably recorded, and completely accurate in their representation. The spectrum cracked the firmament open in clarity. An all analogue technique was used: they recorded and mixed on tape, providing a creative gateway for Sunn O))) to evolve their production methods into stronger, confident, performance-based, and more logical executive process.  

The album took shape through collaborative explorations with Hildur Guðnadóttir, the renowned cellist, film music composer, and former member of the bands Múm, Pan Sonic, and Angel; Tim Midyett, a close friend of Greg and Stephen since the Seattle days of the early 90s (and member of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit and Mint Mile), who occupied a foundational role by tying earth to sound with wicked performances on aluminium neck bass and baritone guitars; and prolific new music composer Anthony Pateras, who arranged and recorded an incredible contribution of pipe organ for a piece titled “Troubled Air.”   

Other Public listening event details in Paris and London:

31st March – Gaîte Lyrique, Paris RSVP ticketed event, available to reserve now. Event commences at approx 17:00pm CET.   

9th April – The Institute Of Light in Hackney, London This is a free Pitchblack Playback event, there will be two sessions commencing approximately 7pm and 8:30pm. Limited space available, RSVP at this link.

“Pitchblack Playback host album listening sessions in cinemas, in the dark, inviting the music-loving public to experience albums in the most distraction-free way possible. The setting heightens your hearing, revealing new hidden detail and allowing you to fully meditate on your favourite music””With great pleasure we present a few special public deep listening sessions of our forthcoming album Life Metal. Our wish and intention are to offer the astounding presence, detail and colour of this recording on great PA systems in a public situation as an introduction. Part of the joy of producing and mastering this album in the studio was that we were fortunate to be able to listen on the perfect high fidelity playback situations for the record, top precise studio sound guided by the best ears in the business. With these public listening sessions we hope to get a step closer to that experience of being inside the studio for you all at these special events, a few weeks before the album is unleashed upon the world.” – Stephen & Greg / SUNN O)))

Coming April 2019

Sunn O)))) are pleased to present their first US tour since 2017, and the premier US tour of their 2019-2020 season. Including Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago, The Masonic Lodge in Detroit, The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee and Brooklyn Steel NYC.

Wed 17/04/2019 Cleveland, OH The Agora Theatre
Thu 18/04/2019 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple
Fri 19/04/2019 Chicago, IL Rockefeller Chapel
Sat 20/04/2019 Pelham, TN The Caverns
Wed 24/04/2019 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
Thu 25/04/2019 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
Fri 26/04/2019 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall
Sun 28/04/2019 Washington, DC The Howard Theatre

Support : Papa M
SUNN O)))’s website/webstore sunn.southernlord.com
SUNN O)))’s album oeuvre online sunn.bandcamp.com
SUNN O)))’s live recordings online sunn-live.bandcamp.com

Tour produced by Ideologic Organ Music SAS
SUNN O))) booking in USA by David Strunk / UTA
SUNN O)))’s recordings are released by Southern Lord Recordings www.southernlord.com www.southernlordeurope.com

Formed in March 1998 Sunn O))) have been challenging the ways we think about music in the twenty years since. A synthesis of diverse: drone, metal, minimalism/maximalism verging on the edge of pure sonic ecstasy, meditation and trance through the power, beauty and colour of sound pressure emanating from their legendary Sunn O))) backline and their earth shaking tectonic compositions of existence, dedicated to the mysteries of life and the cosmos.

O))) has two core members : Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, supported by a tribe of collaborators. From 1999’s The Grimmrobe Demos to 2018’s Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape; from their now classic albums Black One (2006), Monoliths & Dimensions (2009), Soused (2014) & Kannon (2015) to their forthcoming to-be-revealed-but-recently-completed two 2019 album epics, founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson have forged paths and connections between the worlds of Metal, contemporary art, drone, new music, jazz and minimalism with startling results while remaining true to the eternal principles of volume, density, elasticity of time, blossoming of saturation viable only to the disciples and fetishists of electric guitar, synthesis, multiple gain stages and some of history’s greatest pure valve amplification.

The current concert line-up extends around duo of Stephen O’Malley (Guitar), Greg Anderson (Guitar) aside selected special guest. Together they relentlessly pursue their exploration and elaboration of Sunn O)))’s legendary experiments with the physicality of sound in instrumental based live performances with remarkable events at some of their favourite venues, as well as concerts in singular events and spaces such as Italy’s impressive cultural complex Labrinto Della Masone, Germany’s Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts, Royal Festival Hall & The Barbican in London, Bergen’s Dømkirke and Manchester International Festival being a few emblematic examples.

Rejoin them in their glorious pursuit of the monumental heaviness.

ALL HAIL LIFE METAL

WATCH THE LIFE METAL VIDEO TRAILER VIA THE QUIETUS

SUNN O))) are pleased to present Life Metal, their first new studio album in four years, due for release on Southern Lord in April 2019. The album will be supported by their first European tour since 2016, including their first ever French tour – dates and details below.

At the very beginning of 2018 SUNN O))) co-founders Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson set out on a path toward a new album production. They were both determined to create new music and a new method of working in the studio, without forgetting the long and proud history of production and studio accomplishments forged during their first two decades of existence (and the members’ own musical experiences out of the band’s). One long term goal was completely clear: to record Sunn O))) with Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studio. Steve took the call, said “Sure, this will be fun. I have no idea what is going to happen.”

Greg and Stephen gathered twice that spring for writing, conceptualising and riff woodshedding in the very building where the band was formed: Downtown Rehearsal in Los Angeles. Sonic cosmoses, flashes of abstract colour (synthetic and objective) and themes emerged from the mastered depths of saturation and circuits between the two players and their mountains of gear. Themes developed in terms of brightness and energy, while visionary cues pointed toward subconscious areas of practice and the pair realised they were exploring other zones of consciousness via sound/time and sound/energy manipulation. In early summer a pre-production session with full backline, as a trio with T.O.S. on Moog, was recorded at Dave Grohl’s 606 studios, Northridge, California.

In July 2018 SUNN O))) spent just over two weeks in Chicago at Electrical Audio (Studio A) with Steve Albini at the helm. The results are astounding: there is breadth and luminosity of colour, it sounds vast. The sessions were impeccably recorded, authentically represented and completely accurate. The spectrum cracked the firmament open in clarity. An all analogue technique was used, they recorded and mixed on tape, providing a creative gateway for SUNN O))) to evolve their production methods into stronger, confident, performance based and a more logical executive process. The album was mastered and lacquers cut from tape in October by SUNN O))) ally Matt Colton at Alchemy in London. The LP version is a AAA album, recorded and mixed on tape via a completely analogue production, from the input of the band’s amplifiers and the air coming off the speakers in front of the microphones to needle touching the pressed vinyl on your turntable.

Continuing one of the main currents of the SUNN O))) concept, depth of exploration within collaboration, brought forth Hildur Guðnadóttir to the Sunn O))) constellation. Hildur is a sometime live collaborator of Sunn O))) and a renowned film music composer, former member of the bands Múm, Pan Sonic and Angel. She was a long time collaborator with the composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP). Hildur lent her incredible attitude, as well as her voice, breath and electric cello, and the enigmatic haldorophone to the proceedings, culminating in the epic composition/concerto “Novæ”. The cosmos clearly expands. 

Tim Midyett, a close friend of Greg and Stephen since the Seattle days of the early 90s (and member of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit and Mint Mile), joined in a foundational role tying earth to sound with wicked performances on aluminium neck bass and baritone guitars: instruments he helped pioneer playing back in the 90s (alongside Steve and Shellac of course). Dark matter is reality. 

Prolific new music composer Anthony Pateras arranged and recorded an incredible contribution of pipe organ for a piece titled “Troubled Air” (titled after an essay by author Aliza Shvarts, who also penned the liner notes for Sunn O)))’s Kannon) at Schlosskappelle, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. String theory of space.

The resulting album is titled Life Metal. It is fully realised and completely real. The record was produced by the core of Stephen & Greg & arranged by the greater constellation Sunn O))). Paintings by visual artist Samantha Keely Smith graciously adorn the sleeve and provide a perfect suitable mask to the proceedings. They collide ideas of 19th century romanticism & late 20th abstract expressionism (mysticism) with Sunn O)))’s approach to metal (via reference points of Arbo, Turner, Delville, Richter, Turrel, Wou-Ki). Photographer Ronald Dick shot them in baths of light colour representing depth of sound pressure in the work.

SUNN O)))
Life Metal
(sunn300, Southern Lord)

1. Between Sleipnir’s Breaths
2. Troubled Air
3. Aurora
4. Novae

There is a second more meditative LP titled Pyroclasts, also recorded by Steve Albini in parallel, and which will be revealed in the autumn 2019 (more later) with all music performed by Stephen, Greg, T.O.S., Tim Midyett, and Hildur Guðnadóttir.

SUNN O))) are touring March (EU/France), April (USA), September (USA), October (UK & Europe). They are working toward some special events in London and other cities.

SUNN O))) LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES)
March 2019 Europe part 1

Thu 28/02/2019 DE Frankfurt Mousonturm
Fri 01/03/2019 AT Graz Elevate festival/Orpheum ° ~
Sat 02/03/2019 CZ Prague Divadlo Archa °
Sun 03/03/2019 DE Hamburg Kampnagel – K6 °
Mon 04/03/2019 NL Amsterdam Paradiso °
Wed 06/03/2019 FR Lyon L’Epicerie Moderne ÷
Thu 07/03/2019 FR Nancy L’Autre Canal ÷
Fri 08/03/2019 FR Dijon La Vapeur ÷
Sat 09/03/2019 FR Rouen QuasaRites Day/Le 106
Mon 11/03/2019 FR Tours Le Temps Machine §
Tue 12/03/2019 FR Nantes Stereolux §
Wed 13/03/2019 FR La Rochelle La Sirene §
Thu 14/03/2019 FR Bordeaux Le Rocher de Palmer §

Supports :
° Puce Mary https://puce-mary.bandcamp.com
÷ Golem Mecanique https://golemecanique.bandcamp.com
§ France https://standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com
~ Robin Fox presents Single Origin

SUNN O))) LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES)
April 2019 USA part 1

Wed 17/04/2019 Cleveland, OH The Agora Theatre
Thu 18/04/2019 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple
Fri 19/04/2019 Chicago, IL Rockefeller Chapel
Sat 20/04/2019 Pelham, TN The Caverns
Wed 24/04/2019 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts
Thu 25/04/2019 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
Fri 26/04/2019 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall
Sun 28/04/2019 Washington, DC The Howard Theatre

Support : Papa M

SUNN O)))’s website/webstore sunn.southernlord.com
SUNN O)))’s album oeuvres online sunn.bandcamp.com
SUNN O)))’s live recordings online sunn-live.bandcamp.com

Tours produced by Ideologic Organ Music
SUNN O)))’s booking in EU by Odyssey / Vincent Royers
SUNN O)))’s booking in USA by UTA / David Strunk

SUNN O)))’s recordings are released by Southern Lord Recordings www.southernlord.com
www.southernlordeurope.com

SUNN O))) announces their first tour of 2019.

LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES)

March 2019 Europe

Thu 02/28/2019 DE Frankfurt Mousonturm

Fri 03/01/2019 AT GrazElevate festival/Orpheum ° ~

Sat 03/02/2019 CZ Prague Divadlo Archa °

Sun 03/03/2019 DE Hamburg Kampnagel – K6 °

Mon 03/04/2019 NL Amsterdam Paradiso °

Wed 03/06/2019 FR Lyon L’Epicerie Moderne ÷ 

Thu 03/07/2019 FR Nancy L’Autre Canal ÷ 

Fri 03/08/2019 FR Dijon La Vapeur ÷ 

Sat 03/09/2019 FR Rouen QuasaRites Day/Le 106 •

Mon 03/11/2019 FR Tours Le Temps Machine § 

Tue 03/12/2019 FR Nantes Stereolux § 

Wed 03/13/2019 FR La Rochelle La Sirene § 

Thu 03/14/2019 FR Bordeaux Le Rocher de Palmer § 

Supports :

° TBC : Puce Mary https://puce-mary.bandcamp.com

÷ Golem Mecanique https://golemecanique.bandcamp.com

§ France https://standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com

• Linguo Agnota https://linguaignota.bandcamp.com/

~ Robin Fox presents Single Origin

SUNN O)))’s website/webstore sunn.southernlord.com

SUNN O)))’s album oeuvre online sunn O)))’s sunn.bandcamp.com

SUNN O)))’s live recordings online sunn-live.bandcamp.com

Tour produced by Ideologic Organ Music SAS

SUNN O))) booking in EU by Odyssey / Vincent Royers

SUNN O)))’s recordings are released by Southern Lord Recordings www.southernlord.com www.southernlordeurope.com

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English

LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES)

All Hail Life Metal.

Sunn O)))) are pleased to present their first European tour since 2016, and the premier tour of their 2019-2020 season. Including their first ever French tour (hors Paris), returning to old haunt Kampnagel in Hamburg, mythical Paradiso in Amsterdam, as well as headlining Elevate festival in Graz, and Divadlo Archa Prague.

Formed in March 1998 Sunn O))) have been challenging the ways we think about music in the twenty years since. A synthesis of diverse: drone, metal, minimalism/maximalism verging on the edge of pure sonic ecstasy, meditation and trance through the power, beauty and colour of sound pressure emanating from their legendary Sunn O))) backline and their earth shaking tectonic compositions of existence, dedicated to the mysteries of life and the cosmos. 

O))) has two core members : Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, supported by a tribe of collaborators. From 1999’s The Grimmrobe Demos to 2018’s Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape; from their now classic albums Black One (2006), Monoliths & Dimensions (2009), Soused (2014) & Kannon (2015) to their forthcoming to-be-revealed-but-recently-completed two 2019 album epics, founders Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson have forged paths and connections between the worlds of Metal, contemporary art, drone, new music, jazz and minimalism with startling results while remaining true to the eternal principles of volume, density, elasticity of time, blossoming of saturation viable only to the disciples and fetishists of electric guitar, synthesis, multiple gain stages and some of history’s greatest pure valve amplification. 

The current concert line-up extends around power trio of Stephen O’Malley (Guitar), Greg Anderson (Guitar), and their valve guru and long time collaborator Tos Nieuwenhuizen (Moog), aside selected special guests. Together they relentlessly pursue their exploration and elaboration of Sunn O)))’s legendary experiments with the physicality of sound in instrumental based live performances with remarkable events at some of their favourite venues, as well as concerts in singular events and spaces such as Italy’s impressive cultural complex Labrinto Della Masone, Germany’s Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts, Royal Festival Hall & The Barbican in London, Bergen’s Dømkirke and Manchester International Festival being a few emblematic examples. 

Rejoin them in their glorious pursuit of the monumental heaviness. 

-Etienne Ni Mhaille, 2018 

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Français

LA TRAVERSÉE DU DRONE (ÉTAGES DE GAINS MULTIPLES)

Ave Life Metal!

Sunn O))))) a le plaisir de présenter sa première tournée européenne depuis 2016, et la première étape de sa saison 2019 dont sa toute première tournée française (hors Paris), son retour au Kampnagel de Hambourg, au mythique Paradiso d’Amsterdam, et en tête d’affiche des festivals Elevate à Graz et Divadlo Archa à Prague.

Formé en mars 1998, Sunn O)))) remet en question depuis 20 ans la façon dont la musique est conçue. Une synthèse de sonorités diverses : le drone, le métal, le minimalisme/maximalisme sur la lame de l’extase sonore pure, de la méditation et de la transe à travers la puissance, la beauté et la couleur de la pression sonore qui sort de leur légendaire rangée arrière d’amplis et d’enceintes Sunn O))) et leurs compositions tectoniques, faisant trembler la terre, dédiées aux mystères de la vie et du cosmos.

O)))) compte deux membres principaux : Stephen O’Malley et Greg Anderson, accompagnés par une tribu de collaborateurs. Des Grimmrobe Demos en 1999 à Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape en 2018; de leurs albums désormais classiques Black One (2006), Monoliths & Dimensions (2009), Soused (2014) & Kannon (2015) jusqu’à leurs deux albums à paraître en 2019, bien qu’ils n’aient pas encore été dévoilés, les deux membres fondateurs, Stephen O’Malley et Greg Anderson ont fait la jonction et établi de nouvelles passerelles entres le Métal, l’Art Contemporain, le Drone, la Musique Contemporaine, le Jazz et le Minimalisme avec des résultats surprenants, tout en restant fidèles à leurs éternels principes de volume, de densité et de masse sonore, d’élasticité du temps, d’émergence d’une saturation uniquement viable pour les disciples et fétichistes de guitare électrique, de synthèse, d’étages à gains multiples et parmi les meilleurs systèmes de pure amplification à valve de l’histoire. 

La formation actuelle se déploie autour du trio Stephen O’Malley (Guitare), Greg Anderson (Guitare), et de leur gourou des valves et collaborateur de longue date Tos Nieuwenhuizen (Moog), entourés de leurs invités. Ensemble, ils poursuivent sans relâche l’exploration et l’élaboration de Sunn O)))), les expériences légendaires qu’ils mènent sur la physicalité du son à travers des lives dans leurs salles préférées, mais aussi des performances dans des espaces culturels singuliers comme le complexe culturel italien Labrinto della Masone, le Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts en Allemagne, le Royal Festival Hall et le Barbican à Londres, Domkirke à Bergen et le Manchester International Festival entre autres exemples emblématiques. 

Venez vous joindre à eux dans cette quête flamboyante du son monumental.

-Etienne Ni Mhaille, 2018 . Traduction : Valérie Vivancos

Tickets for Sunn O))) live 18th November at the Echoplex, Los Angeles as part of The Power Of The Riff festival 2018 (Southern Lord Recordings & Sunn O))) 20th anniversary) are on sale, and are already at 80% tickets sold.

Lasts tickets here :
https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1762631

This will be a very special celebration and we would be honored if you are able to attend.
This will also be our only California show for 2018 & our last show of 2018.

Also on the bill :
Darkest Hour
Xibalba
Xasthur

Several more killer bands to be announced.

Thank you for your interest and support in our music

O)))

Hail to you all, our great fans!

In 2018 Sunn O))) is celebrating surviving 20 years; the band was formed in March 1998 by Greg Anderson & Stephen O’Malley in a practice space in Downtown Los Angeles after reuniting a few years following the Burning Witch story (and a couple of practices and one cancelled show in 1996 in Seattle of a proto-O))) group called Mars).

We share the 20th anniversary with our house Southern Lord Recordings which was also formed in 1998! We are working on preparing several releases for 2018 in celebration. Some reissues, concerts and some brand new and never released materials to be announced in the coming weeks and months. 

So, hey, please check our FB or IG and let us know your favourite O))) moment, live or on record, or otherwise, and/or your hidden or not hidden O))) dream/desire. HAIL SABBATH

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Hail to all of our great fans! We are proud to announce…

SUNN O))) NE USA, SE Canada March 2017 TOUR

March/12/2017 9:30 Club – Washington, DC w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/13/2017 The Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/14/2017 Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Toronto, ON w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/15/2017 Société des arts technologiques [SAT] – Montreal, QC w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/16/2017 Coolidge Corner Info – Boston, MA w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/17/2017 Knockdown Center – Brooklyn, NY w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/18/2017 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA w/ Big ‡ Brave  [tickets]
March/21/2017 Barbican Centre – London, UK @ Convergence Festival w/ Hildur Gudnadóttir  [tickets]

Tickets are on sale from Friday, December 23rd at 10am local time.

PRESS RELEASE

SUNN O))) declare new live actions for 2017, announcing plans of their return to Northeastern USA & Southeast Canada in March. 

The first set of SUNN O))) tour dates for 2017 sees the collective bringing their dense and arrhythmic blend of metal, drone, and minimalist music back to the Northeast USA and Southeastern realms of Canada for a week of performances.

SUNN O)))) will converge in Washington DC on March 12th, following with shows in Pittsburgh, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia confirmed through March 18th.

SUNN O))) support on all USA/Canada shows will be provided by Southern Lord Recordings labelmates, Montreal-based Big ‡ Brave, whom have also joined on their 2016 tours of the Southwest, Southeast and Midwest states and Europe. 

This follows the recent announcement of SUNN O)))’s appearance at London’s massive performing arts venue, Barbican Centre, as part of this year’s Convergence Festival on March 21st. Support for the performance will come from Icelandic singer and cellist, Hildur Gudnadóttir, who has played and recorded with bands such as Pansonic, Throbbing Gristle, and Múm. Guðnadóttir also wrote the arrangements for the Wildbirds & Peacedrums session as part of the Barbican’s Nils Frahm curated Possibly Colliding marathon weekend in July 2016

(photo Estelle Hanania 2015)