Sunn O))) Sign with Sub Pop and Release Surprise EP
In a move that most wouldn’t expect because, well, one of their members owns the band’s former label, Southern Lord, drone/doom metal outfit Sunn O))) marked a new era in its timeline by signing with Sub Pop Records. That would normally be news enough, but the band marked the change with the release of a surprise new three-track EP.
Featuring the songs “Eternity’s Pillars“, “Raise The Chalice” and “Reverential“, the EP featured Brad Wood as its co-producer over a number of recording sessions. The band released the following statement about the EP.
“Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential is sunn O)))’s premier work on the maxi 12” medium for Sub Pop.
“It consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis.
“sunn O))) gave extreme focus and care to each step and aspect of the recording, each tone and level of saturation, each gain stage and speaker, each arrangement and harmonic. The Pacific Northwest forest is our guide.
“‘Eternity’s Pillars’ is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence. ‘Raise the Chalice’ is named for a rallying cry often uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee throughout the mid-1990s. ‘Reverential’ equally pays respect and sends loud praise to those who came before us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and art being the materials of an antiphon.
“The front cover of the maxi 12” depicts the duo in the woods northeast of Seattle, through the lens of Charles Peterson.”
The tracks themselves are very much old school Sunn O))), which given the fact that this time around it’s just Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, that makes a ton of sense.
Speaking of the tracks themselves, Sunn O))) said:
“‘Eternity’s Pillars’ is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.
“‘Raise the Chalice’ is named for a rallying cry often uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee throughout the mid-1990s. ‘Reverential’ equally pays respect and sends loud praise to those who came before us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and art being the materials of an antiphon.”
You can pick up a copy of Sunn O)))’s new EP wherever you get your music.
