John Peel used to describe his beloved The Fall as being “always different, always the same”. This similia also works for Sunn O))). Their approach is now part of metal mythology; two hooded figures play a scant set of notes glacially slow and in doing so create a monolithically heavy sound that you feel as opposed to hear. For near on thirty years Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson haven’t deviated from this formula, ploughing a blazingly inventive and individualistic furrow. It might be distinctly challenging and discombobulating, but you know what you are getting with Sunn o))).

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