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Sunn O))) Announce First New Album in Four Years

  • Axl Rosenberg
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Has it really been only four years since Sunn O))) released their last album, Kannon? Wow. Time slows when you’re having Sunn.

Still, I know there are people who will be excited to learn that Sunn O))) will release Life Metal, their first new studio album since 2015, in April via Southern Lord (which, you may know, is property of the band’s own Greg Anderson). “The album will be supported by their first U.S. tour since 2017 and the premier U.S. tour of their 2019-2020 season,” according to a press release.

Stereogum has debuted a preview of the album, which you can check out below. It’s nearly five minutes long, so, naturally, it contains two notes.

Kind of hilariously, the press release also promises “a second more meditative LP titled Pyroclast… which will be revealed in the autumn 2019.” More meditative? Jesus fucking wept! I’ve spent ten days in a Buddhist temple that required all visitors to take a vow of silence for the duration of their visit, and it was faster paced and more exciting than this. I don’t know how it can get MORE meditative, short of coming with a prescription for Xanax.

Also kinda funny: “life metal” is the term Euronymous uses to diss death metal in Lords of Chaos.

Obligatory reporting about Sunn O)))’s Life Metal will continue as more information is made available. In the meantime, here are all of the band’s upcoming tour dates:

SUNN O))) LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES)
March 2019 – Europe
February 28 DE Frankfurt Mousonturm
March 1  AT Graz Elevate festival/Orpheum
March 2  CZ Prague Divadlo Archa
March 3  E Hamburg Kampnagel
March 4  NL Amsterdam Paradiso
March 6  FR Lyon L’Epicerie Moderne
March 7  FR Nancy L’Autre Canal
March 8  FR Dijon La Vapeur
March 9  FR Rouen QuasaRites Day/Le 106
March 11  FR Tours Le Temps Machine
March 12  FR Nantes Stereolux
March 13  FR La Rochelle La Sirene
March 14  FR Bordeaux Le Rocher de Palmer
April 2019 – North America
April 17  Cleveland, OH @ Agora
April 18  Detroit, MI @ Masonic
April 19  Chicago, IL @ Rockefeller Chapel
April 20  Pelham, TN @ The Caverns
April 24  Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
April 25  Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
April 26  New Haven, CT @ College Street
April 28  Washington, DC @ The Howard
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