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Sunn O)))

Reviews 8

Columnus Metallicus: November’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Movin’ On: Scott Walker & Sunn O)))’s Soused Reviewed

The Lead Review: Kim Kelly On SunnO)))’s Kannon

Sunn O))) & Ulver

Terrestrials

Elements Of A Music Scene: Stavanger’s Numusic Festival Reviewed

Meditate On Bass Weight: Why Sunn O))) Are A Dance Act

Supersonic In Review: Podcast And Photo Gallery

Sunn O)))

Monoliths And Dimensions

Articles 24

A Quietus Interview

It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed

Under his moniker “The Lord”, the Sunn O))) mainman has written a record inspired by the woods, horror soundtracks and Swedish death metal, with help from an unlikely source, says Dan Franklin
Music of the Month

Albums Of The Month: Music We’ve Loved This April

Sunn O))), Fat White Family, Sly & The Family Drone, Khotin and Abdu Ali make up just some of our favourite releases of the last month
Strange World Of...

Inspiration From Above and Below: The Strange World Of… SunnO)))

Philosopher and cultural theorist Niall Scott catches some chin-scratching time with Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, as SunnO))) reissue Dømkirke on vinyl and announce North American live dates. Live photography by Samantha Hayley
A Quietus Interview

South Of No North: Greg Anderson Of Sunn O))) & Goatsnake Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to Southern Lord boss Greg Anderson about the new Goatsnake album and the ever increasing stature of Sunn O)))
A Quietus Interview

Enter The Furnace: Scott Walker Interviewed

John Doran meets the inimitable 30th Century Man to discuss Soused, his collaboration with Sunn O))) and front runner for album of the year
Black Sky Thinking

Optrex For Your Third Eye: What Does Psychedelia Mean In 2014?

John Doran wonders if there are any rules as to what makes a modern song psychedelic, or is it simply in the (third) eye of the beholder? With Spotify list of mind-warping office favourites from the history of the Quietus

Albums of the Year so far

Bountiful Summer: Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far 2014

Here is tQ's half year studio album list voted for by Luke Turner, Rory Gibb, Laurie Tuffrey, Sophie Coletta and John Doran (who wrote and compiled the feature)
Black Sky Thinking

We Are All Religious Now: Holy Music In A Secular World

Ahead of the Quietus writers' list of favourite religious and spiritual records, published later this week, Rev. Rachel Mann explores the many roles that holy music continues to play in an increasingly secular society, and explains why it remains an important and affecting force
A Quietus Interview

“It’s Not Easy Listening”: Thirty Years Of Pure Fucking Mayhem

On their 30th anniversary - with an appearance at Oya Festival booked and a new album ready for release - John Doran looks beyond the murder, the suicide, the extremism and the immolation, and talks to Mayhem's founder Necrobutcher about their radical music and nothing else
A Quietus Interview

Beautiful Noise: Rhys Chatham Interviewed

In this lost interview from 2009, Rhys Chatham talks to David Moats about doom metal, gentrification and drum & bass as a collaboration between him and Charlemagne Palestine comes to St. John's Church in Hackney on Thursday as part of William Basinski and Art Assembly's Arcadia series
Black Sky Thinking

Mr Agreeable A Quietus Makes: Sour Sot Reviews Our Favourite Bands

The Quietus staff are fully occupied moving office today, so we left the website in the capable hands of Mr Agreeable, and suggested he might like to review music from East India Youth, Factory Floor, Sunn O))) and Fat White Family
A Quietus Interview

Bl’ast From The Past: Grohl & More Talk Hardcore Innovators

This month, cult California hardcore pioneers Bl'ast release an album of long-lost recordings, remastered with the help of Dave Grohl. The band, Grohl and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson tell Jamie Thomson about the band's history and how a chance discovery led to their resurrection
A Quietus Interview

Sonic Communication: Stephen O’Malley Talks Ensemble Pearl & Gravetemple

As ever, Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley is busy at work on a host of concurrent projects. In advance of his group Gravetemple's shows at Cafe Oto this weekend, he speaks with Joseph Burnett about the marvelous debut Ensemble Pearl album, a collaboration with members of Ghost and Boris
A Quietus Interview

Untangling The Moment: An Interview With Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi's work, both solo and in collaboration with names as wide-ranging as Fire! and Sunn O))), finds him twisting guitar tones to the point where they fold in upon themselves. He speaks to Russell Cuzner about collaboration, teaching a course on krautrock and covering Kiss
A Quietus Interview

Finding Out Something True: Eyvind Kang Interview

On the eve of a London gig, Joseph Burnett talks to modern compositional powerhouse, Eyvind Kang
A Quietus Interview

Black Gold Of The Sunn O))): Stephen O’Malley Interviewed

Wyndham Wallace talks to Stephen O’Malley about volume, improvisation and the reissue of Sunn O)))’s debut album ØØ Void. SOMA portraits by the author. Doll photo by Maria Jefferis
Black Sky Thinking

2011: Celebrating The Continued Shattering Of Our Culture

Kicking off 2011's Wreath Lectures, Luke Turner argues that the continuing fragmentation of our culture and consumption is to be welcomed, and will bring forth new joys
A Quietus Interview

Hubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble: The Haxan Cloak Interviewed

The Haxan Cloak's self-titled debut is one of our favourite albums of the year. Ahead of his Quietus show with Perc on 16th December, we sat down to chat about how it came together
A Quietus Interview

Talk Talk From Daniel O’Sullivan: Mothlite Interviewed

Jack Mills talks to Daniel O'Sullivan about Mothlite's new album _Dark Age_ and his collaborations with Sunn O))), Ulver, The Big Pink and more
A Quietus Interview

Monoliths & Mysteriis: Sunn O))) Vokillist Attila Csihar Interviewed

Manish Agarwal talks to Attila Csihar about Sunn O))), a life in metal and some seriously massive slabs of rock
Black Sky Thinking

A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?

The Quietus kicks off a series of essays looking back at the past decade with David Stubbs' look at the evolution of what we call pop
A Quietus Interview

Jarvis Cocker Interview: Talking Further Complications

Luke Turner talks to Jarvis Cocker about Albini, the male psyche, Sunn O))), living in the moment, and how it feels to be accused of being a Tory
A Quietus Interview

Doom With A View: Sunn O))) Discuss Monoliths And Dimensions
A Quietus Interview

Metal Gaze – From My Bloody Valentine To Nadja via SunnO)))

Drawing on influences as wide as doom, ambient, electronica, shoegaze and black metal, Joe Stannard flings the curtains back and lets the SunnO))) pour in on this peculiar genre. SunnO))) portrait by Koen Jacobs

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Baker's Dozen

Dark Nights Of The Soul: Chelsea Wolfe’s Baker’s Dozen

From a teenage love of Fleetwood Mac and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet soundtrack, to real life encounters with Sunn O))) and Smashing Pumpkins, Chelsea Wolfe talks to Greg Hyde about the 13 records that most impacted her life

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