Sunn 0))) – Life Metal

Sunn 0))) – Life Metal

Southern Lord – 2019

Metal, Drone

Rated: ***

Sunn 0))) has been relentlessly droning on ever since their inception around 1998. Life Metal is there eight full-sized album and a ninth is set to be released later this year. And even since their first release the drone has been the same, intense entrail shaking chords that seem to reverberate on and on and on. Loose teeth and churning stomach contents, the savage translation of how pre-earth might have sound, how tectonic plates roared and crashed into each other. That backdrop has never really changed. Dark and ominous, twisted and creepy. But we are talking about Sunn 0))) here and the devastating waves of sound we are referring to you might only truly experience live. On record there is, among the instrumental mass of deep, low and powerful guitar violence, a bit of room for shading and gradation. Guest spots by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Tos Nieuwenhuizen, Tim Midgett and Anthony Pateras are responsible for most of that small amount of color. Intense once again and devastatingly heavy!

(Written by JK)

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