Sunn O))) the metal band has announced Fall 2019 tour dates with a few stops in Europe before heading to the United States where they will play a handful of cities before heading overseas again. The band includes Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson who released a new album, Life Metal which has four songs with dark, unusually long, drowned out sounds that leave room for the imagination in your mind to set the space. The four songs on this album, “Between Sleipnir’s Breath”, “Troubled Air”, “Aurora” and “Novae” extend over an hour of epic, long range and bizarre sounds, intermingled from time to time with a soft echo of bells or a horse cry. The power of the guitar fills your mind with some mind-blowing, calming yet mood altering shifts.
Bands, Fellow Southern Lord, Big Brave and Papa M, the project of David Pajo of Slint, will perform at certain shows. When performing live, Sunn O))) band members wear robes and fill the air with fog, and plays at an extremely high volume. The band is known for using resonant feedback to create monolithic soundscapes and eerie atmospheres.
The album, Life Metal reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hard Rock Album chart. Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn amplifier brand, the logo of which includes a circle next to the “SUNN” banner with waves heading off to the right. In interviews, Stephen O’Malley stated that the band’s moniker was also chosen as a play on the name Earth, a band widely regarded as pioneers of drone metal throughout the 1990’s.
Sunn O))) 2019 Tour Dates:
07/30 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg w/ Caspar Brötzmann
07/31 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg w/ Caspar Brötzmann
08/01 – Amsterdam, NL @ Dekmantel festival
09/01 – Dallas, TX @ Granada *
09/02 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s *
09/04 – Denver, CO @ The Gothic *
09/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Mayan *
09/09 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore *
09/11 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox ^
09/12 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall ^
10/07 – Munich, DE @ Backstage Werk %
10/08 – Karlsruhe, DE @ HfG / ZKM %
10/09 – Basel, CH @ Kaserne Basel – Rosstall %
10/10 – Leipzig, DE @ Felsenkeller %
10/11 – Krakow, PL @ Unsound Festival
10/13 – Vilnius, LT @ Kablys %
10/14 – Tallinn, EE @ Vene Theatre %
10/15 – Helsinki, FI @ Kulttuuritalo %
10/17 – Stockholm, SE @ Kraken
10/18 – Oslo, NO @ Kulturkirchen Jakob
10/19 – Oslo, NO @ Blä #
10/21 – Copenhagen, DK @ Koncerthuset
10/22 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
10/24 – Bristol, UK @ SWX
10/25 – Glasgow, UK @ QMU
10/26 – Birmingham, UK @ The Crossing
10/27 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
10/28 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
* = with Papa M, Big|Brave
^ = with Papa M
% = with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
# = duo show (Greg and Stephen only)
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
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