Tuesday, February 05, 2019

SUNN O))) Announces New Album and US Tour Dates in April; Life Metal


SUNN O))) is pleased to present Life Metal, their first new studio album in four years, due for release on Southern Lord Recordings in April 2019. The album will be supported by their first US tour since 2017 and the premier US tour of their 2019-2020 season, including stops at The Masonic Lodge in Detroit, Howard Theatre in Washington, DC, Agora Theatre in Cleveland, Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago, The Caves in Pelham, and Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn. Dates and details can be found below, with more info to surface soon.

 Read a new interview with SUNN O))) and watch the Life Metal teaser now via Stereogum HERE.

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, 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 bands. One long term goal was completely clear: to record SUNN O))) with Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studio. Albini took the call, said "Sure, this will be fun. I have no idea what is going to happen."

Anderson and O'Malley gathered twice that spring for writing, conceptualizing, and riff woodshedding in the very building where the band was formed: Downtown Rehearsal in Los Angeles. Sonic cosmoses, flashes of abstract color (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 realized 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 Albini at the helm. The results are astounding: there is breadth and luminosity of color, 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. Guðnadóttir has performed as a live collaborator of SUNN O))) and a renowned film music composer, as well as a former member of the bands Múm, Pan Sonic, and Angel. She was a longtime collaborator with the composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP). Guðnadóttir 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 Anderson and O'Malley 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 aluminum 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 LP), at Schlosskappelle, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. String theory of space.

The resulting album is titled Life Metal. It is fully realized and completely real. The record was produced by the core of O'Malley and Anderson and 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 and 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 color representing depth of sound pressure in the work.

Life Metal Track Listing:
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 with all music performed by Stephen, Greg, T.O.S., Tim Midyett, and Hildur Guðnadóttir. Further details will be released later.

SUNN O))) is touring in Europe this March, in the US in April and again in September, and again in Europe and the UK in October. See all confirmed dates below and watch for more tour updates to be issued soon.

SUNN O))) Let There Be Drone (Multiple Gains Stages):
2/28/2019 Mousonturm - Frakfurt, DE [info]
3/01/2019 Orpheum - Graz, AT @ Elevate Festival [info]
3/02/2019 Divadlo Archa - Prague, CZ [info]
3/03/2019 Kampnagel - E. Hamburg, DE [info]
3/04/2019 Paradiso - Amsterdam, NL [info]
3/06/2019 L'Epicerie Moderne - Lyon, FR [info]
3/07/2019 L'Autre Canal - Nancy, FR [info]
3/08/2019 La Vapeur - Dijon, FR [info]
3/09/2019 QuasaRites Day/Le 106 - Rouen, FR [info]
3/11/2019 Le Temps Machine - Tours, FR [info]
3/12/2019 Stereolux - Nantes, FR [info]
3/13/2019 La Sirene - La Rochelle, FR [info]
3/14/2019 Le Rocher de Palmer - Bordeaux, FR [info]
4/17/2019 Agora Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
4/18/2019 Masonic - Detroit, MI
4/19/2019 Rockefeller Chapel - Chicago, IL
4/20/2019 The Caverns - Pelham, TN
4/24/2019 Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
4/25/2019 Brooklyn Steel - Brooklyn, NY
4/26/2019 College Street - New Haven, CT
4/28/2019 The Howard - Washington, DC

Tour produced by Ideologic Organ Music. SUNN O))) booking in EU by Odyssey / Vincent Royers. SUNN O))) booking in USA by David Strunk / UTA. SUNN O)))'s recordings are released by Southern Lord Recordings.

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Friday, January 23, 2015


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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Dälek

‎– Absence (2004)
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

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Thursday, September 25, 2014


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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

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Friday, August 15, 2014

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

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Monday, June 30, 2014

...breath and reach to home

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Thursday, June 26, 2014

MCMLXXXVI



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Wednesday, June 25, 2014


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Monday, June 16, 2014

The "Delusions of Comprehension" Playlist

(or... as we are born into the certainty of the sensual... we are the stone that starts the avalanche... we are the cough that spreads the plague... we are the spark that lights the inferno)
THOU - "Free Will" - Heathen
BURNING WITCH - "Sea Hag" - Towers...
THE WISDOOM - "Oneiron" - Hypothalamus
GOATSNAKE - "Raw Curtains" - Dog Days
CULTED - "March of the Wolves" - Oblique to All Paths
YEAR OF NO LIGHT - "L 'Angoisse du Veilleur de Nuit d'Autoroute les Soirs d'Alarme à Accident" - Nord
THOU - "Fleurs de Mal" - Tears That Soak a Callous Heart
ATRIUM CARCERI - "The Way Down" - The Untold
CATHEDRAL - "Earth in the Grip of a Skeletal Hand" - Gargoylian
ATARAXIE - "Etats d'Âme" - L'Être et la Nausée
CONAN - "Total Conquest" - Blood Eagle
BLACK COBRA - "Somnae Tenebrae" - Invernal
SKELETONS - "A Distant Mirror" - A Distant Mirror
EYEHATEGOD - "Run it into the Ground" - In the Name of Suffering
THOU - "Fucking Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean" - Tyrant
SUNN O))) - "Aghartha" - Monoliths & Dimensions
KTL - "Happy in Nagoya" - Ikki
KONGH - "Adapt the Void" - Counting Heartbeats
ENCOFFINATION - "Revulsion of the Chalice, Indulgence of Salivating Innocence" - Seventh Temple of Laodicean Scripture
NAGA - "Naas" - Hēn
OMEGA MASSIF - "Karpatia" - Karpatia
NADJA - "Falling Out of Your Head" - Dagdrøm
HIGH ON FIRE - "Master of Fists" - High on Fire
DROFNOSURA - "Isolit" - I
THOU - "Prometheus" - Summit
CULTED - "Jeremiad" - Oblique to All Paths
IRON LUNG - "Cancer" - Cancer b/w Life of Pain
ELECTRIC WIZARD - "Black Mass" - Black Masses
COUGH - "Northern Plague" - Sigillum Luciferi
SAINT VITUS - "Zombie Hunger" - Saint Vitus
URNA - "Ego Sum" - Sepulcrum
THE BODY - "Darkness Surrounds Us" - I Shall Die Here
THOU - "I Hate Myself and I Want to Die [Nirvana]" - The Sacrifice
YEAR OF NO LIGHT - "Perséphone (Coré)" - Ausserwelt
NADIR - "Cathedrals of Greed" - Nadir
BORIS - "ふりおろす evil wave form (Furi orosu)" - Dronevil -Final- Disc 2: Evil
CONAN - "Retaliator" - Burning World
EYEHATEGOD - "Sister Fucker, Pt. 2" - Take as Needed for Pain
ELECTRIC WIZARD - "Legalise Drugs & Murder" - Legalise Drugs & Murder
SLUG LORD - "Triumphant Drunk" - Transmutation
THOU - "Don't Vote" - The Degradation of Human Life
EVOKEN - "A Tenebrous Vision/Grim Eloquence" - Atra Mors
KTL - "Natural Trouble" - IV
OMEGA MASSIF - "Wölfe" - Karpatia
EARTH - "Coda Maestoso in F (Flat) Minor" - Hibernaculum
THOU - "Ode to Physical Pain" - Heathen
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

YOB: Clearing the Path to Ascend Artwork + Track Listing Revealed

This September, two years after leveling the expectations of critics and listeners alike with Atma, doom trio powerhouse, YOB, will unveil Clearing the Path to Ascend, an aptly titled album for what will undoubtedly be the crowning achievement for a band whose journey now nears two decades of creating music as commanding as it is cathartic.

As is the YOB way, the four tracks comprising Clearing the Path to Ascend don’t simply offer a vacuous glimpse into the already riff-soaked doom genre; these songs demand the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul, etching a mark across a sound that finds YOB as formidable as they’ve ever been. True ascension requires a destruction of those barriers that prevent any movement forward. Unsurprisingly, YOB pummels any and all of these obstacles with absolute authority, clearing the way for a genuinely visceral listening experience and climbing upward into a realm that sets the band in a heavy metal place that has been and will always remain wholly their own.

YOB’s music is not unlike the path that’s let them to their current place among heavy metal’s elite, slowly building from a hushed ethereal vapor into the thunderous and masterful tumult of sound domination. The ethereal mists of Eugene, Oregon no doubt provided the perfect catalyst for founding member and vocalist Mike Scheidt to call up the signature of surging doom that would soon come to garner YOB its current position as one of the most respected and revered bands in all of heavy metal. While giving due sonic credit to the cornerstone influences such as Cathedral, Sleep, Electric Wizard, and Black Sabbath — YOB immediately set out to define a sound wholly singular and utterly devastating in its cathartic enormity.

Those threads of progressive rock and drone that have always underscored the music of YOB are now fully realized with Clearing the Path to Ascend. Drummer Travis Foster wields his signature rhythmic furor here with bombastic precision while bassist Aaron Rieseberg coils around the sonic tide with an unforgiving churn all the while in a deadly synchronicity with Scheidt’s uncanny vocal range and its pendulous movement between the triumphant howls of a medieval madman and the earth splitting growls of a war-battered titan.

With Clearing the Path to Ascend, YOB explores a thunderous dimension that’s familiar in its auditory clout but completely new in the execution of its trajectory, taking the band’s sound into a remarkable place as ethereally compelling in its aesthetic, as it is merciless in the magnitude of its sound.

Comments founding vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt, “Writing this album felt like being plugged into a main. Emotionally, it’s our heaviest. But it also has some real beauty and light. We dug the deepest we ever have to get to the heart of these tunes.”

Clearing the Path to Ascend Track Listing:
 

1. In Our Blood
2. Nothing to Win
3. Unmask the Spectre
4. Marrow


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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

The "Eighth Single From" Playlist

(or... spinney b/w what paradise is like (the second being odd even))
CARDIACS - "Manhoo" - Sing to God
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "Kiss the Eclipse" - Sunny Sundae Smile
BAUHAUS - "The Three Shadows, Part I" - The Sky's Gone Out
MAN MAN - "Skin Tension" - Six Demon Bag
NAKED CITY - "Contempt (Le Mépris) [Georges Delerue]" - Naked City
QUEEN - "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" - Sheer Heart Attack
THE CURE - "The Perfect Girl" - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
BLUR - "Oily Water" - Modern Life is Rubbish
THE PROMISE RING - "Why Did We Ever Meet" - Nothing Feels Good
YOUNG WIDOW - "White Golden Rings" - In and Out of Youth and Lightness
CARDIACS - "R.E.S." - The Seaside
THE PASTELS - "Million Tears [BBC Session: 1984]" - Suck On
NO JOY - "Wrack Attack" - Wait to Pleasure
CICCONE YOUTH - "Addicted to Love [Robert Palmer]" - The Whitey Album
STEWART COPELAND - "Tulsa Rags" - Rumble Fish
JOHN ZORN & THURSTON MOORE - "6th Floor Walk-Up, Waiting" - "@"
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY - "Dancing in the Dark" - Somethin' Else
PIXIES - "There Goes My Gun" - Pixies at the BBC
FUGAZI - "Version" - Red Medicine
BLUR - "Caramel" - 13
JOHN ZORN - "1001 Nights in Marrakech" - Dreamachines
PINK FLOYD - "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" - From Abbey Road to Brittania Row - The Extraction Tapes
CHICAGO - "Travel Suite: Flight 602" - Chicago III
REPLICANTS - "No Good Trying [Syd Barrett]" - Replicants
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. - "Under the House" - The Flowers of Romance
MELVINS - "Bar-X The Rocking M" - Stag
CARDIACS - "There's Too Many Irons in the Fire" - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
XTC - "Millions" - Drums and Wires
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "Swallow" - Tremolo
CHELSEA WOLFE - "Gen Wilder" - The Grime and the Glow
BLUR - "Bugman" - 13
JANE'S ADDICTION - "Standing in the Shower...Thinking" - Nothing's Shocking
SECRET CHIEFS 3 - "Utopian Weekly Update (HVHI Public Access)" - Book of Souls, Folio A
FUGAZI - "Sweet and Low" - In on the Kill Taker
AN ALBATROSS - "I Will Swim into the Lazer Eye" - Blessphemy...of the Peace Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite
CARDIACS - "Dive" - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
DEATH - "Freakin Out" - ...For the Whole World to See
THE DAMNED - "Under the Floor Again" - Strawberries
JOHN ZORN - "The Wild Boys" - Dreamachines
FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - "Florentine Pogen" - One Size Fits All
ART BLAKEY - "The Egyptian" - Indestructible
DAMON ALBARN - "Heavy Seas of Love (featuring. Brian Eno & The Leytonstone City Mission Choir)" - Everyday Robots
THE SUGARCUBES - "Water" - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "Cigarette in Your Bed" - You Made Me Realise
NO JOY - "Junior" - Negaverse
CIBO MATTO - "Birthday Cake" - Viva! La Woman
CARDIACS - "To Go Off and Things" - The Seaside
CHROME HOOF - "Drobe Out" - Chrome Black Gold
PIXIES - "I've Been Waiting for You [Neil Young]" - Velouria
BLONDIE - "Rip Her to Shreds" - Blondie
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "When You Sleep" - Loveless
FAILURE - "Pillowhead" - Fantastic Planet
BLUR - "Chinese Bombs" - Blur
CARDIACS - "Fairy Mary Mag" - Sing to God
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The "Gást" Playlist

(or... 12:43 as se unclæna gast)
NO JOY - "Slug Night" - Wait to Pleasure
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "Only Tomorrow" - m b v
IROHA - "Shepherds & Angels" - Shepherds & Angels
MOGWAI - "Drunk and Crazy" - Earth Division
ASBESTOSCAPE - "Return" - Asbestoscape
SLOWDIVE - "Dagger" - Souvlaki
BORIS - "Looprider" - New Album
LUSH - "Scarlet" - Gigantic! 2
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "To Here Knows When" - Tremolo
DIE KREUZEN - "Blue Song" - Cement
BAILTER SPACE - "Today" - Trinine
HEALTH - "In Violet" - Get Color
CAVE IN - "Heartbreaks, Earthquakes" - White Silence
SONIC YOUTH - "Stereo Sanctity" - Sister
THE PROMISE RING - "Perfect Lines" - Nothing Feels Good
NO JOY - "Lunar Phobia" - Wait to Pleasure
TRUE WIDOW - "Duelist" - True Widow
MOGWAI - "Punk Rock:" - Come on Die Young
BAILTER SPACE - "Gamma Tram" - Trinine
UNWOUND - "Said Serial" - Negated / Said Serial
DIE KREUZEN - "Number Three/Dream Sky" - Century Days
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - "Loomer" - Loveless
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. - "The Order of Death" - This Is What You Want...This Is What You Get
THE CURE - "Burn" - The Crow
BORIS - "Flood II" - Flood
LOVELIESCRUSHING - "Overdose" - Shiny Tiny Stars
SLOWDIVE - "Sing" - Souvlaki
MOGWAI - "Wizard Motor" - Les Revenants
UME - "Until the End" - Monuments
NO JOY - "Hare Tarot Lies" - Wait to Pleasure
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Friday, June 06, 2014

The "Anatomical Variations" Playlist

(or... non-pathologic anatomic structure that is different from the norm)
THE BODY - "Our Souls Were Clean" - I Shall Die Here
THOU - "Summit Reprise/Bonnet Carré" - The Archer & The Owle
THE WISDOOM - "Delta" - Hypothalamus
BIG BUSINESS - "Another Fourth of July... Ruined" - Here Come the Waterworks
FLOOR - "Raised to a Star" - Oblation
GOATSNAKE - "Trower" - Goatsnake Vol.1
BORIS - "Flood I" - Flood
ORTHODOX - "Arrodillate Ante La Madera y La Piedra " - Gran Poder
ALEPH NULL - "Nocturnal Part II" - Nocturnal
URNA - "Intermezzo" - Mors principium est
SKEPTICISM - "The Everdarkgreen" - Stormcrowfleet
PELICAN - "Angel Tears" - Australasia
LOINCLOTH - "Angelbait" - Iron Balls of Steel
BORIS - "Feedbacker III" - Boris at Last - Feedbacker
MELVINS - "Crayfish" - 10 Songs
PALEHORSE - "Charnel No.5" - Harm Starts Here
SHOW ME A DINOSAUR - "Man Made God" - Dust
THE BODY - "Failure to Desire to Communicate" - Christs, Redeemers
GOATSNAKE - "Easy Greasy" - Flower of Disease
BURNING WITCH - "Rift.Canyon.Dreams" - Caprichos 1-80 / Rift Canyon Dreams
YOB - "Upon the Sight of the Other Shore" - Atma
ASBESTOSCAPE - "Eclipse" - Demo
SKELETONS - "Xanthous" - A Distant Mirror
BLACK COBRA - "Frozen Night" - Adult Swim and Scion A/V METAL SWIM
THE BODY - "The Blessed Lay Down and Writhe in Agony" - Master, We Perish
MELVINS - "With Teeth" - Lysol
TRUE WIDOW - "Boaz" - As High as the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
NEIL YOUNG - "Guitar Solo, No.1" - Dead Man
ALEPH NULL - "Backward Spoken Rhymes" - Nocturnal
BURNING WITCH - "The Bleeder" - Goatsnake / Burning Witch
BORIS - "Ganbou-Ki" - Amplifier Worship
YEAR OF NO LIGHT - "Vampire" - Vampyr
CONAN - "Horns for Teeth" - Blood Eagle
SUNN O))) & BORIS - "Akuma No Kuma" - Altar
MELVINS - "The Eagle Has Landed/Brickelbrit/Hands First Flower" - Joe Preston
EYEHATEGOD - "Crimes Against Skin" - Take as Needed for Pain
IN THE EARTH - "Khaos [non-vocal demo]" - Nyx 0
LOVE SEX MACHINE - "Killed with a Monster Cock" - Love Sex Machine
SLOMATICS - "Mont Ventoux" - Burning World
WARHORSE - "Dusk/Doom's Bride" - As Heaven Turns to Ash...
THE BODY - "To Attempt Openness" - Christs, Redeemers
YEAR OF NO LIGHT - "L 'Angoisse du Veilleur de Nuit d'Autoroute les Soirs d'Alarme à Accident" - Nord
TORCHE - "King Beef" - Chapter Ahead Being Fake
BORIS - "Elegy" - Präparat
ENSEMBLE PEARL - "Island Epiphany" - Ensemble Pearl
THE BODY - "The Ebb and Flow of Tides in a Sea of Ash" - Master, We Perish
PRIMITIVE MAN - "Astral Sleep" - Scorn
INDIAN - "The End of Truth" - Guiltless
NOOTHGRUSH - "Flee from Hunger and Disease [Live]" - Live for Nothing
MELVINS - "Clipping Roses" - Gluey Porch Treatments
OLD MAN GLOOM - "Poisoner" - Meditations in B
CORRUPTED - "Garten" - Garten der Unbewusstheit
YEAR OF NO LIGHT - "Désolation" - Tocsin
BORIS - "A Bao A Qu" - The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked
THE BODY - "To Carry the Seeds of Death Within Me" - I Shall Die Here
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Thursday, June 05, 2014

The "Diabolical Proverbs" Playlist

(or... without contraries (there) is no progression... attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence)
EARTH - "Raiford (The Felon Wind)" - Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method
BORIS - "ふりおろす evil wave form (Furi orosu)" - Dronevil -Final- Disc 2: Evil
SUNN O))) - "Descent/Ascent [Live]" - Agharthi Live 09-10
BIRD EYE - "Hivemind" - Streak#18
HAVE A NICE LIFE - "Music Will Untune the Sky" - The Unnatural World
LEAF - "Part III" - Demo 51°37'35"N8°42'05"E
RELIC POINT - "Tower" - VIXI
PINK FLOYD - "Sheep (Raving and Drooling)" - From Abbey Road to Brittania Row - The Extraction Tapes
EARTH - "A Bureaucratic Desire for Revenge, Part 1" - Extra-Capsular Extraction
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - "Last Exit for the Lost" - The Nephilim
NORTT - "Død og borte" - Nortt/Xasthur
SUNN O))) MEETS NURSE WITH WOUND - "Ash on the Tress (The Sudden Ebb of a Diatribe)" - The Iron Soul of Nothing
HORSEBACK - "Hallucigenia II: Spiritual Junk" - Half Blood
MELVINS - "Boris [Live]" - Endless Residency: Bullhead LIVE
BLIND IDIOT GOD - "Atomic Whip" - Undertow
BORIS - "Flood I" - Flood
EARTH - "Lullaby (Take 2 - How Dry I Am)" - Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions
SUNN O))) - "Aghartha" - Monoliths & Dimensions
WOVENHAND - "Aeolian Harp (Under The World)" - Blush Music
ENSEMBLE PEARL - "Wray" - Ensemble Pearl
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - "Dead but Dreaming" - Elizium
PINKISH BLACK - "Tastes Like Blood" - Pinkish Black
BURNING WITCH - "Communion" - Rift.Canyon.Dreams
ATRIUM CARCERI - "The Untold" - The Untold
XASTHUR - "Blood from the Roots of the Forest" - Nortt/Xasthur
BORIS - "Akuma No Uta" - Akuma No Uta
SAILORS WITH WAX WINGS - "There Was One Who Sought A New Road" - Sailors with Wax Wings
EARTH - "Descent to the Zenith" - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
WREKMEISTER HARMONIES - "Untitled" - You've Always Meant So Much To Me
RED SPAROWES - "Millions Starved and We Became Skinnier and Skinnier, While Our Leaders Became Fatter and Fatter" - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun
SUNN O))) - "Holy Water" - Rehearsal Demo Nov 11 2011
BORIS - "Hama" - Amplifier Worship
EARTH - "Hung from the Moon" - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (b. 02.26.60)

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Anthony Frank "Tony" Iommi (b. 02.19.48)

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Clifford Lee "Cliff" Burton (02.10.62 – 09.27.86)

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Tuesday, February 04, 2014

The "Yasna 62.1; Nyashes 5.7" Playlist

(or... for, one who sacrifices unto fire with fuel in his hand, is given happiness)

TEMPEL - "On The Steps of the Temple" - On The Steps of the Temple
FALL OF BECAUSE - "Survive" - Life is Easy
MOGWAI - "I Do Have Weapons" - Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle
HEAD OF DAVID - "Great White Heat" Dustbowl
SIMON BOSWELL - "Mark 13" - Hardware
GRAILS - "The Natural Man" - Doomsdayer's Holiday
OUTWAILED - "Downfall" - Observant
GODFLESH - "Pure" - Pure
ISIS - "Syndic Calls" - Panopticon
CELESTE - "Cette silhouette paumée et délabrée qui sanglote et meurt" - Animal(s) Part II
RED SPAROWES - "A Hail of Bombs" - The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer
TEMPEL - "Mountain" - On The Steps of the Temple
BLIND IDIOT GOD - "Stravinsky - Blasting Off" - Blind Idiot God
VERSOMA - "November 2004" - Life During Wartime
RUSSIAN CIRCLES - "You Already Did" - Enter
MOGWAI - "Robot Chant" - Rock Action
SCORN - "Little Angel" - Colossus
ÆTHENOR - "I" - Faking Gold and Murder
NOTHING - "Endlessly" - Guilty of Everything
PELICAN - "The Creeper [Live]" - Ataraxia/Taraxis
LOOP - "I'll Take You There" - The World in Your Eyes
HEAD OF DAVID - "108" - Dustbowl
KTL - "Paratrooper" - IV
IROHA - "Wish Upon a Star" - Bittersweet
EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - "Welcome, Ghosts" - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
SUBARACHNOID SPACE - "Akathesia" - Eight Bells
WOE - "A Treatise on Control" - Quietly, Undramatically
JOHN MURPHY - "In the House - In a Heartbeat" - 28 Days Later
TEMPEL - "The Mist that Shrouds the Peaks" - On The Steps of the Temple
MOGWAI - "Scotland's Shame" - The Hawk is Howling
SCORN - "Walls of My Heart" - Vae Solis
RUSSIAN CIRCLES - "Mládek" - Empros
YEAR OF NO LIGHT - "Thanatos" - Demo
TOMBS - "To Cross the Land" - Path of Totality
KRALLICE - "Boat Driver [Orphan]" - Orphan of Sickness
ISIS - "The Pliable Foe" - Melvins / Isis
JESU - "Dummy" - Pale Sketches
GODS AND QUEENS - "Untitled 1" - Untitled
PYRAMIDS - "Sleds [Ted Scarlett Remix]" - Pyramids
BORIS - "Riot Sugar" - Heavy Rocks II
GODFLESH - "Dream Long Dead [Rehearsal: April 1989]" Streetcleaner
OvO - "A Dream Within a Dream" - Abisso
TEMPEL - "Final Years" - On The Steps of the Temple
CASTEVET - "The Seat of Severance" - Obsian
OLD - "Vein Water" - Lo Flux Tube
ISIS - "Celestial (Signal Fills the Void) [Justin K. Broadrick Remix]" - SGNL>05
GRAILS - "Origin-ing" - Burning Off Impurities
SUNN O))) - "Big Church (Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért)" - Monoliths & Dimensions
FLUX - "Immanence" - Protoplasmic
ATMOSPHERES - "Voices" - Atmospheres
CELESTE - "Dans ta salive, sur sa peau" - Animal(s) Part I
DEAFHEAVEN - "Unrequited" - Roads to Judah
TEMPEL - "Rising from the Abyss" - On The Steps of the Temple
(((03)))

Monday, February 03, 2014

The "Tester Rules the Throne" Playlist

(or... try to realize... who's born and who dies)
YOB - "Ball of Molten Lead" - The Illusion of Motion
MELVINS - "Lividity" - Stoner Witch
SUNN O))) - "Last One / Valentine's Day" - LA Reh 012
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - "Fantastic Justice" - Poznan 2011 A.D.
WARHORSE - "Doom's Bride" - As Heaven Turns to Ash
CANDLEMASS - "Codex Gigas" - Nightfall
MY SHAMEFUL - "No One Will Come" - Penance
THOU - "Tyrant" - Tyrant
MELVINS - "Zodiac [Live]" - Endless Residency: Bullhead LIVE
PELICAN - "Parasite Colony" - Ataraxia/Taraxis
KONGH - "Essence Asunder" - Shadows of the Shapeless
ATAVIST - "[Untitled]" - II: Ruined
GRAILS - "Dead Vine Blues" - Burning Off Impurities
SUNN O))) - "Rabbits' Revenge [Melvins]" - ØØ Void
ELECTRIC WIZARD - "Electric Wizard [Live]" - Supercoven
CULTED - "Distortion of the Nature of Mankind" - Oblique to All Paths
GOATSNAKE - "Slippin the Stealth" - Goatsnake Vol. 1
INTER ARMA - "The Survival Fires" - Sky Burial
YOB - "Burning the Altar" - The Great Cessation
MOTÖRHEAD - "Dust and Glass" - Aftershock
EARTH - "Harvey" - Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions
MOSS - "Dark Lady" - Horrible Night
METAL CHURCH - "Beyond the Black" - Metal Church
PELICAN - "Threnody" - Forever Becoming
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - "Song for the Loved" - Poznan 2011 A.D.
S.A. SLAYER - "Off with Their Heads" - Go for the Throat
HANGED GHOST - "Conceived in Pestilent Womb" - The Attraction of Oblivion
ELECTRIC WIZARD - "Vinum Sabbathi" - Dopethrone
GRAILS - "Dargai" - Redlight
CULTED - "Jeremiad" - Oblique to All Paths
DELIVERANCE - "Wilderness" - Doomsday, Please
URNA - "S.S.M. Part I" - Mors Imperatrix Mundi
BLACK SABBATH - "Zero the Hero" - Born Again
MELVINS - "If I Had an Exorcism [Live]" - Endless Residency: Bullhead LIVE
YOB - "Breathing from the Shallows" - The Great Cessation
SUNN O))) - "Hell-O)))-Ween" - White2
EYEHATEGOD - "Shop Lift" - Take as Needed for Pain
MC5 - "Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa) [Live]" - Kick Out the Jams
VENOM - "Buried Alive" - Black Metal
PARADISE LOST - "Silent" - Gothic
WARHORSE - "...and the Angels Begin to Weep..." - As Heaven Turns to Ash
MERCYFUL FATE - "Satan's Fall" - Melissa
SAINT VITUS - "Saint Vitus" - Saint Vitus
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - "We Forgot Who We Are" - Poznan 2011 A.D.
SUNN O))) - "Invisible/Sleeper" - LA Reh 012
BLACK SABBATH - "The Mob Rules" - The Mob Rules
YOB - "Prepare the Ground" - Atma
(((03)))

Friday, January 31, 2014

John Joseph Lydon, also known by his former stage name Johnny Rotten (b. 01.31.56)

(((03)))

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (b. 01.30.51)

“ I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit. ”

(((03)))

Monday, January 27, 2014

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton (b. 01.27.68)

(((03)))

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Robin Wayne Zander (b. 01.23.53)

(((03)))

SUNN O))) + ULVER

 Having already revealed, with words from the creators themselves, the story of how the impending collaborative Terrestrials LP from SUNN O))) and ULVER was conceptualized and created, the other vital components of the recording and the full LP artwork have been released.
Conceived in the interim 2008-2012 at Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo, Norway, the aggregation of this recording are Greg Anderson, Stephen O’Malley, Daniel O’Sullivan, Kristoffer Rygg, Jørn H. Sværen & Tore Ylwizaker – with ghost appearances by Ole-Henrik Moe and Kari Rønnekleiv (viola & violin), Stig Espen Hundsnes (trumpet) and Tomas Pettersen (drums). Terrestrials was produced by Stephen O’Malley & Kristoffer Rygg, mixed by Anders Møller at Crystal Canyon during February and March 2013, and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone, London in April. Art direction was handled by Stephen O’Malley. The cover of Terrestrials bears a portrait of our sun, captured in the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light — 656.3 nanometers in the deep red — on June 10, 2012 by Alan Friedman.

Ahead of its  North American street date of February 4th, an excerpt of Terrestrials’ third composition, “Eternal Return,” can be heard RIGHT HERE, preorders for the digital version are now available HERE and physical versions HERE.
In conjunction with the release, ULVER will be on tour throughout Europe over the coming months, additionally having confirmed a date in Moscow, Russia in April as well as an American appearance in may at the massive Maryland Deathfest in the Baltimore in late May. (o3:EsC)