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Sunn O))) (pronounced simply sun /sʌn/) is an American drone metal band from Seattle, Washington that formed in 1998. The band is primarily known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, extreme metal and for its extremely loud live performances. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band was formed by two core members: Stephen O'Malley (also of Khanate and Burning Witch) and Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake and Engine Kid).
Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn amplifier brand, whose logo includes a circle next to the "SUNN" banner with waves heading off to the right. In interviews, Stephen O'Malley stated that the band's moniker was also chosen as a play on the name Earth, a band widely regarded as pioneers of drone metal throughout the 1990s. Before the band members moved to Los Angeles, it briefly used the moniker Mars.
The band's style is characterized by extremely slow tempos, heavily distorted guitars, avoidance of rhythm and melody, and alternate tunings. The guitars are notable for their low register, frequently utilising tunings as low as dropped A. Additionally, the band is known for using resonant feedback to create monolithic soundscapes and eerie atmospheres. Percussion is almost never incorporated, with a lack of any discernible beat. When performing live, the band wear robes, fill the air with fog, and play at an extremely high volume.
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Hungarian: Báthory Erzsébet, Romanian: Elizabeta Bathory; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess and serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1610. The highest number of victims cited during Báthory's trial was 650. However, this number comes from the claim by a woman named Susannah that Jacob Szilvássy, Countess Báthory's court official, had seen the figure in one of Báthory's private books. The book was never revealed, and Szilvássy never mentioned it in his testimony. Despite the evidence against Elizabeth, her family's influence kept her from facing trial. She was imprisoned in December 1610 within Csejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia, where she remained imprisoned in a set of rooms until her death four years later.
Sunn amplifiers was a brand of musical instrument amplifiers. Sunn was based in Tualatin, Oregon.
In early 1963, the Kingsmen, a band based in Portland, Oregon, became known for their hit version of the song "Louie, Louie". After its hit single, the band soon embarked on a 50-state national tour. Because the band was used to playing small hops and school dances, many of the members found themselves ill-equipped with the amplifiers that they were currently using. Bassist Norm Sundholm discovered that his bass amp was not nearly powerful enough to play larger concert halls.
Sundholm enlisted the help of his brother Conrad to help solve his problem. By 1964, the Sundholm brothers had designed a high-powered concert bass amplifier. By 1965, the demand for Sundholm's amplifiers had increased to the point where the family garage could no longer be used as the manufacturing facility. Thus, the Sunn Musical Equipment Company was founded.
The band Sunn O))) was named after the company (to the point of including a typographic representation of the logo) and Gross National Productions who were the East Coast promo band for Sunn amps in 1971.
"Kannon" is the latest album from Sunn O))) and is available now through Southern Lord Records on CD, LP and digital formats. https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/kannon https://www.southernlord.com/releases/view/kannon http://sunn.southernlord.com
IM SELLING THE SUNN WHITE BOX LP SET! ITS STILL IN ORIGINAL WRAPPING SEALED 400 EUR! IF YOU WANT IT MSG ME - THANKS. PAYPAL ONLY! Since the quality of this is that amazing ive recuttet two more clips from the sunnvseurope tour for your pleasure. Recorded on 3th February 06 This is part "ONE" the first 10 minutes with Greg, SOMA & Mark D Part "TWO" is here http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hxp304tivas Part "THREE" is here http://youtube.com/watch?v=JhUXkjCfX0k
Another video I recorded at this concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSoal5Zegpo Gig played on may 26 2009 in Leuven, Belgium. Location: Predikherenkerk (a Dominican Church). http://www.stuk.be/ Info about the church (in Dutch): http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ten-Predikherenkerk_(Leuven) More info about the church (in Dutch): http://www.vioe.be/nl/index.cgi?id=456&nav;=true My website: http://www.eliekolonie.net This video (image + audio) was shot with a Sony DSC W200 pocket camera.
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https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/d-mkirke https://www.southernlord.com/releases/view/domkirke https://sunn.southernlord.com/products/view/domkirke-black-vinyl-pre-order
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→ FOR AUDIO & TRACKLIST: http://blrrm.tv/V8u4Au → SUBSCRIBE TO BOILER ROOM: http://blrrm.tv/YouTube Welp, it's finally happened. We've been gleefully checking off a (rusted, sludge-filled) bucket list lately, and after the likes of Earth and Boris – not to mention some prominent come hither advances over the years – it's a pleasure to bring you the mighty Sunn O))) in concert. Few artists embody an entire scene/sound like Sunn do; they're a byword for everything that's good and great in doom for a reason. Ahead of a four day curatorial stint at Le Guess Who? and the imminent Kannon LP, their first non-collaborative record since 2009, we shot Stephen O'Malley's doom demigods in Berlin. Black robes, dry ice, riffs played ultra-slow and ultra-heavy, and decibel levels so immense that ...
Another video I recorded at this concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSoal5Zegpo Gig played on may 26 2009 in Leuven, Belgium. Location: Predikherenkerk (a Dominican Church). http://www.stuk.be/ Info about the church (in Dutch): http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ten-Predikherenkerk_(Leuven) More info about the church (in Dutch): http://www.vioe.be/nl/index.cgi?id=456&nav;=true My website: http://www.eliekolonie.net This video (image + audio) was shot with a Sony DSC W200 pocket camera.
IM SELLING THE SUNN WHITE BOX LP SET! ITS STILL IN ORIGINAL WRAPPING SEALED 400 EUR! IF YOU WANT IT MSG ME - THANKS. PAYPAL ONLY! Since the quality of this is that amazing ive recuttet two more clips from the sunnvseurope tour for your pleasure. Recorded on 3th February 06 This is part "ONE" the first 10 minutes with Greg, SOMA & Mark D Part "TWO" is here http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hxp304tivas Part "THREE" is here http://youtube.com/watch?v=JhUXkjCfX0k
Live at the Knockdown Center in Queens, NY This is 10 different clips combined. Skip around
Recorded Live on Monday, March 13th, 2017 within the fog shrouded confines of the Rex Theater, in the South Side alcohol district of Pittsburgh, PA.
Sunn O))) featuring Attila Csihar performs live. Recorded @ DR Koncerthuset, Studie 2 in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 15th, 2015.
Pit Full of Shit is now Max Volume Silence Live! Support Max Volume Silence Live on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/mvslive Max Volume Silence Live: http://www.MaxVolumeSilenceLive.blogspot.com Contact: MaxVolumeSilenceLive@gmail.com
→ FOR AUDIO & TRACKLIST: http://blrrm.tv/V8u4Au → SUBSCRIBE TO BOILER ROOM: http://blrrm.tv/YouTube Welp, it's finally happened. We've been gleefully checking off a (rusted, sludge-filled) bucket list lately, and after the likes of Earth and Boris – not to mention some prominent come hither advances over the years – it's a pleasure to bring you the mighty Sunn O))) in concert. Few artists embody an entire scene/sound like Sunn do; they're a byword for everything that's good and great in doom for a reason. Ahead of a four day curatorial stint at Le Guess Who? and the imminent Kannon LP, their first non-collaborative record since 2009, we shot Stephen O'Malley's doom demigods in Berlin. Black robes, dry ice, riffs played ultra-slow and ultra-heavy, and decibel levels so immense that ...
Watch the doom and drone metal icon Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) on the lecture couch at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York. ------ Visit our official website: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RBMA Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedBullMusic... ------ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/10OyDHc ------ In addition to his role in several of doom metal's key bands (Burning Witch, Khanate and KTL among others) O’Malley has played an important part in linking the metal sphere with the art world. His long list of collaborators stretches from Boris, Merzbow, Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino and Oren Ambarchi to French theatre specialist Gisèle Vienne, American sculptor Banks Violette, Italian performance artist Nico ...
Decay: The Symptoms of Kali-yuga Nihils' Maw [taken from Shrimad-Bhagavatam sri-suka uvaca tatas canu-dinam dharmah satyam saucam ksama daya kalena balina rajan nanksyaty ayur balam smrtih vittam eva kalau nrnam janmacara-gunodayah dharma-nyaya-vyavasthayam karanam balam eva hi dampatye 'bhirucir hetur mayaiva vyavaharike stritve pumstve ca hi ratir vipratve sutram eva hi lingam evasrama-khyatav anyonyapatti-karanam avrttya nyaya-daurbalyam panditye capalam vacah anadhyataivasadhutve sadhutve dambha eva tu svikara eva codvahe snanam eva prasadhanam dure vary-ayanam tirtham lavanyam kesa-dharanam udaram-bharata svarthah satyatve dharstyam eva hi daksyam kutumba-bharanam yaso 'rthe dharma-sevanam evam prajabhir dustabhir akirne ksiti-mandale b...
Watch the doom and drone metal icon Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) on the lecture couch at the 2013 Red Bull Music Academy in New York. ------ Visit our official website: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RBMA Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedBullMusic... ------ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/10OyDHc ------ In addition to his role in several of doom metal's key bands (Burning Witch, Khanate and KTL among others) O’Malley has played an important part in linking the metal sphere with the art world. His long list of collaborators stretches from Boris, Merzbow, Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino and Oren Ambarchi to French theatre specialist Gisèle Vienne, American sculptor Banks Violette, Italian performance artist Nico ...
Greg Anderson, co-founder of Sunn O))) and Southern Lord records, goes shopping at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles. The latest release from Sunn O))) is "Kannon" available now on Southern Lord Records. His picks: Black Sabbath - Paranoid [Super Deluxe] (CD) http://bit.ly/2hFOeIm Grief - Depression [EP] (12") http://bit.ly/2hwFs3h Grief - Dismal (LP) http://bit.ly/2hmnSyt Soundgarden - Live At The Hollywood Palladium (CD) Soundgarden - Hands All Over: Radio Broadcast 1990 (CD) Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo [OST] (CD) http://bit.ly/2gtsoGV Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo (DVD) http://bit.ly/2hnoEsq Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (DVD) http://bit.ly/2hgjuR7 Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver [OST] (CD) http://bit.ly/2hnhm7P Miles Davis - Paul's Mall, Boston, September 1972 (LP) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Daw...
On February 22nd and 23rd, 2016, Red Bull Music Academy hosted a two-day session at Beaux-Arts de Paris featuring Stephen O’Malley of drone metal icons Sunn O))). Sharing his experience of translating sounds into physically perceptible experiences, O’Malley got together with a group of visual artists studying at the fine arts institution for a collaborative workshop, which was followed by a public performance. O’Malley also took a seat on the Academy lecture couch to discuss his ideas of how sound works in the physical space. The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop fo...
Sunn O))) // 17.10.2009 Attila, vocaliste de Sunn O))) répond aux questions de Samuel et nous fait une démonstration gutturale de ses capacités vocales. LUFF Video Team // Emilie Bourquin, Mélanie Courvoisier, Laurence Rohrbach, Simone Aubert, Michel Pennec, Jerome Keller, Yan Luong
Listen: https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/kannon Drone metal duo Sunn o))) returns with a three-part album titled Kannon. More loud rock reviews: http://bit.ly/1qn75Xl Buy this album: http://amzn.to/1XyyolW =================================== Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1pBqGCN Official site: http://theneedledrop.com TND Twitter: http://twitter.com/theneedledrop TND Facebook: http://facebook.com/theneedledrop Support TND: http://theneedledrop.com/support =================================== FAV TRACKS: KANNON PT. 2, KANNON PT. 3 LEAST FAV TRACK: KANNON PT. 1 SUNN O))) - KANNON / 2015 / SOUTHERN LORD / DRONE METAL, DOOM METAL, DRONE, NOISE 6/10 Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
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http://www.tveyemagazine.com SunnO))) and Boris mixing collaboration album "Altar." Interviews with Greg Anderson, Stephen O'Mallley, Atsuo, Kim Thayil. From TV EYE DVD Magazine #4.
[Intro]
And the time says... [x2]
[Verse 1: Zion I]
I'm like Golgo 13 assassinator
Known to those zones microphones and faders
I slip into
Where you've never been to
Come through and witness God within you
I think you
Really like what you see
In your inner most depths the rest is poetry
And it's spoken
From the city of Oakland
Where the flames is hot and rocks be smoking
No jokin
We begin to speak
With the word on the street vibrate to concrete
As a basis
Foundations we create this
Watch for what you wish God will assist
All endeavors
Thoughts like feathers
To carry the bird within your soul to the ethers
Always and forever
I still be
In the place with the grace
Do you feel me
We'll be on the run for the new sun
Til the last day when armaggedeon come
Armaggedeon come... [x2]
[Hook:]
Life is one big road with lots of signs
(scratching: manifestation)
If you relax yourself and just chill you can take the time...
(Relax your mind)
To be yourself and free your mind...
(scratching: elevation)
And when you do it right...
You know your inner light shines
Your light shines... [x3]
(scratching)
(This ain't no game this is life)
[Verse 2: Zion I]
In the middle of the night
I rhyme right
While my man Amp whippin up the beat sham
To inspire we set flames higher
Callin up the spirit talkin on a live wire
Just for the conflict
Just for the place
Just for the days when I was a mental slave
Allow my mind to climb when I ride mics
Take flight jump up withcha satellite
And get high from the soul less shower
Creator is the power
Destruct and devower
I'm on a Timex and my concepts
Better represent what I want to come at cha
Don't got time to play for this worktime
Everyday I gotta pray for the sunshine
Take time
Illuminate self divine
In a little time realize one mind
Yo...
[Hook:]
Life is one big road with lots of signs
(scratching: manifestation)
If you relax yourself and just chill you can take the time...
(Relax your mind)
To be yourself and free your mind...
(scratching: elevation)
And when you do it right...
You know your inner light shines
Your light shines... [x5]
[Outro:]
This ain't no game this is... life [x2]
(scratching)
This ain't no game this is... [x2]
(scratching)
This ain't no game this is... life
I'm like Golgo 13 assassinator...
Assassinator... [x2]
And the time says... [x2]
In your inner most depths the rest is poetry...