This month Live Eye Tv is proud to present an especially dark night of entertainment. Unlock the infernal realms with SunnO)))’s “Sacred Keys to Sabat Dimensions”. Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley continue to take adventurous listeners into the bleakest realms of dark earth drone! SUNNO)))’s unflinching adherence to music as ritual melds spirit realms to the material, while positing to the audience a whole new set of questions like what is music/entertainment, and what kind of “experience” should we expect it to provide.
SUNNO))) has continued to mine in the same black quarries of sound opened by Dylan Carlson’s band Earth, on early albums like Earth 2, and Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions. Brutally minimal, but rooted in a sort of prehistoric understanding of the pure vitality of the sound current, Earth broke sonic gound in the ancient burial fields of music itself. Around the time Dylan Carlson began exploring other musical routes to this destination, O’Malley and Anderson decided to pay homage to the bands early, radical gestures as an Earth cover band! Thus SUNNO))) was born, and it wasn”t long before they began mining further depths into the drone zone with albums like 2001’s, 3: Flight of the Behemoth, and the follow-ups from 2002/3 White 1 and White 2. Colossal canyons of sub-sonic space crushed under the pressure of massive slow motion metal-like riffs, became further embellished as the duo collaborated with other experimental artists like Japan’s noise wizard, Merzbow, psychedelic troubadour Julian Cope, as well as others, closer to home like Joe Preston (Melvins, Earth). With their 2006 release Black One, it would seem the band has reached a nadir, their deepest bass depths yet, a place devoid of light itself, save the rolling magma of melting metal. Again, their sonic effort is engrandized by collaborations with like-minded artists such as, Malefic (Xasthur) Wrest (Leviathon/ Twilight), Oren Ambarchi, and John Weise (Bastard Noise). Live Eye Tv had the pleasure to film this SUNNO))) performance at Neumos in Seattle, WA. If you like this check out Southern Lord Records.
To optimize the quality of the video and audio we have had to break this hour long performance into 6 clips. Let the drone begin…
- SUNNO))) 1 [mov + 23.7mb]
- SUNNO))) 2 [mov + 23.6mb]
- SUNNO))) 3 [mov + 23.6mb]
- SUNNO))) 4 [mov + 23.8mb]
- SUNNO))) 5 [mov + 23.5mb]
- SUNNO))) 6 [mov + 22.5mb]
