Sunn o life metal funky souls forum9/1/2023 ![]() When it all combines – volume, tone, the feeling of having your core physically shaken by soundwaves – the results can be almost religious. Because there is great skill involved in this that transforms the idea of reducing music down to ultra-heavy vibrations that, live, are intended to be experienced through the very marrow of your bones as much as they are your ears. This is both unfair and a gross misunderstanding. In the years since, as the weird cult of Sunn O))) – that’s ‘sun’ to you – has grown and they’ve become festival headliners and appeared at such storied venues as The Royal Festival Hall, some have accused the core duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson of being piss artists that they are making musical new clothes for the emperor and laughing all the way to the bank every time people pay money for it. ![]() ![]() Just assemble a cathedral of amps, put on some robes, don’t bother getting a drummer or singer, and play a couple of doomy, droning chords for a quarter of an hour – voila! Indeed, at their first-ever London show supporting Orange Goblin at the Camden Underworld back in 2000, many assumed they were watching a soundcheck. It sounds a lot easier to do what Sunn O))) do than it actually is.
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