SUNN O))) Black One (CLEAR VINYL) 2 x LP

SUNN O))) Black One (CLEAR VINYL) 2 x LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Once again back in print on vinyl, Sunn's doomdrone opus Black One is again resurrected as a gorgeous double LP, here on thick 180 gram clear vinyl and housed in a heavyweight pasteboard gatefold jacket with high quality printing that makes the monochromatic nightmarish look of this album really come to life. Issued in a limited edition of one thousand copies.
     2005's Black One found Sunn at their most wretched, their most monstrous. The crippling deathdrones and ghastly graveyard ambience that lurks throughout this album saw the band strongly incorporating their black metal influences for the first time. While there's still a bit of that disembodied Melvins-esque riffage that made up their early works, the sprawling side-long epics of rumbling primordial murk contained here reek with a malodorous stench that's far more evil sounding than anything the band had done before. The album creaks open like a set of ancient rusted gates, releasing a fetid wind of buzzing horn-like drones and malevolent whispers, the atmosphere congealing into a strange confusion of Tibetan prayer ceremony and the delirium of an exorcism in progress; smears of backwards sound and glitch materialize alongside twisted demonic hissing, the thrum of amplified bowed cymbals and Oren Ambarchi's rumbling guitar feedback inside of "Sin Nanna"'s demonic murk further coloring the black catacomb atmosphere. And then the blackened metallic ooze of "It Took The Night To Believe" caves in, the band's trademark droning riffage forming around a simple, sinister black metal riff, waves of blackened bass rumble washing across the track, the echoing, ghastly vocals of Leviathan mastermind Wrest billowing like plumes of corpse gas across the mesmeric filth-encrusted dungeon ritual. Later, the grinding re-working of Immortal's "Cursed Realms (Of The Winterdemons)" combines a juddering, machinelike rhythm with a swirling fog of shrieking inhuman voices from Xasthur's Malefic (who was purported to have been locked inside of a coffin during the recording of some of his vocal performances), howling feedback and uncoiled bass rumble melting into a noxious tangle of mutant black metal a la Abruptum amid blasts of imperious power-chord drone. And "Orthodox Caveman" is something of a return to the molten Melvinsesque riff-mantras that Sunn perfected on 00 Void, the tectonic riffage stretched out in slow-motion over Ambarchi's chaotic, heavily processed drumming.
     "CandleGoat" offers another brief homage to classic Norwegian black metal, at first revealing an eerie frostbitten minor key guitar figure that is quickly swallowed up in a morass of gut-churning bass and severely down-tuned guitar riffage, then slipping into another black dirge haunted by Malefic's grave-whispers, the sound gleaming with whirring electronics from John Wiese, while on "Cry For The Weeper", they craft an ominous electro-acoustic deathscape of distant metallic reverberations and amplified creaking, eventually blending mournful horns and wailing woodwind instruments with pipe organ-like keyboards and waves of buzzing kosmische synthesizer into a murky, gothic nightmare. And on closer "Báthory Erzsébet", Sunn pays tribute to the fabled Blood Countess with a spacious expanse of minimal drift punctuated by eerie, bell-like overtones that Ambarchi coaxes from his array of amplified gong, guitar and tubular bells. This evolves into a symphony of lowercase cracks and pops, ghostly tones cutting through the haze of bass drone. When the guitars finally rush in at around the halfway mark, the whole piece seems to violently decompress into a intense low-pressure dronescape that unfurls across the final moments, rupturing into a storm of feedback and reptilian malevolence before closing with a final blast of twisted, magmatic dronemetal.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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