Sunn O))), child! You already know them! You would possibly love them! You undoubtedly respect them! The robed Seattle wraiths have been making stretched-out, uncompromising drones for a really very long time, and so they’ve simply introduced a brand new cope with Sub Pop Information. The identical label launched Sunn O)))’s 2023 tracks “Evil Chuck” & “Ron G Warrior” as a part of its Singles Collection. Together with the contract, Sunn O))) even have a brand new 12″ EP, and it’s already out on the earth.
The brand new Sunn O))) EP Eternity’s Pillars b/w Increase The Chalice & Reverential has three tracks. The 14-minute “Eternity’s Pillars” takes up everything of the primary aspect, whereas aspect B has two tracks, “Increase The Chalice” and “Reverential,” that take up about eight minutes apiece. All three tracks are rumbling drone instrumentals, which is to day that they sound like Sunn O))). Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson recorded in Los Angeles with co-producer Brad Wooden. In line with the duo themselves, these tracks are “the primary official Sunn O))) studio recordings to function solely the unique core duo on closely saturated electrical guitars and synthesis.” Right here’s how they clarify the music titles:
“Eternity’s Pillars” is called for the mid-Eighties tv program created and hosted by jazz visionary and non secular guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, specializing in her incessant perception in music’s capability to achieve non secular transcendence. “Increase The Chalice” is called for a rallying cry typically uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee all through the mid-Nineteen Nineties. “Reverential” equally pays respect and sends loud reward to those that got here earlier than us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and artwork being the supplies of an antiphon.
Beneath, expertise these new tracks and take a look at Sunn O)))’s upcoming European tour dates.
TOUR DATES:
10/14 – Budapest, Hungary @ Dürer Kert
10/15 – Zagreb, Hungary @ Kino SC
10/17 – Sofia, Bulgaria @ Membership Pleasure Station
10/18 – Thessaloniki, Greece @ Principal Membership
10/19 – Athens, Greece @ Gagarin 205
10/21 – Skopje, Macedonia @ MKC
10/22 – Belgrade, Serbia @ Drugstore
10/24 – Venice, Italy @ Venice Music Biennale
10/26 – Torino, Italy @ Audiodrome
10/27 – Munich, Germany @ Backstage Werk
10/28 – Dresden, Germany @ Reithalle Strasse E
10/30 – Lyon, France @ Nuits Sonores, Le Sucre
11/01 – Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Les Nuits Weekender
11/03 – Aarhus, Denmark @ Voxhall
11/04 – Malmö, Sweden @ Plan B
11/05 – Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefährlich
11/06 – Utrecht, Netherlands @ Le Guess Who Competition
Eternity’s Pillars b/w Increase The Chalice & Reverential is out now on Sub Pop.