Void O)))

ural · Post by **ural** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:45 am

Listening SunnO)))'s "ØØ Void" reissue. Mixed feelings. I like their musical ideas. Their production qualities are awesome (better than Earth).
But I can't stand they are serious about all this "pseudo cosmogony" things they represent over and over again. It's sad but lack of self-irony makes them look like "digital" (unnatural) even in robes. Why not tell stories about two pencils instead of monoliths?

What do you think about that?

fiddelerselbow · Post by **fiddelerselbow** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:04 am

I thought SunnO))) was a joke for a long time to be honest. I like how it's something totally out of left-field (for me at least) but the whole robes thing and the aesthetic is just too silly for me to take them seriously. I'd like to see em live though.

ural · Post by **ural** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:13 am

fiddelerselbow wrote:I thought SunnO))) was a joke for a long time to be honest. I like how it's something totally out of left-field (for me at least) but the whole robes thing and the aesthetic is just too silly for me to take them seriously. I'd like to see em live though.

yeah - joke without jokes:)

Bassus Sanguinis · Post by **Bassus Sanguinis** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:24 am

dudes, You're missing the point in all the robed priests of the monoliths thing.

Willing suspension of disbelief. Try it. Like in the movies or when reading. :hello:

snipelfritz · Post by **snipelfritz** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:29 pm

I find them a lot more believable than most metal and punk bands these days(GWAR for example). It's a mix of laughing with/at them and just going with it like Bassus said. For Sunn O)))), while they're deep into their image, it's their music which is most aggressive and prevalent (at least to me I suppose).

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:34 pm

There is no such thing as being a performer and not having a image... even "not having a image" is a image.

WeHuntKings · Post by **WeHuntKings** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:35 pm

Just close your eyes and have your intestines massaged into goo from the sub-bass frequencies and everything will be fine.

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:06 pm

Sunn O))) wouldn't be, without the robes and "psuedo cosmogony"

GardenoftheDead · Post by **GardenoftheDead** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:53 pm

The thing is I never thought the robes and the fog and the "cosmogony" was supposed to be something serious. It's just part of the image.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:03 pm

GardenoftheDead wrote:The thing is I never thought the robes and the fog and the "cosmogony" was supposed to be something serious. It's just part of the image.

I'm pretty sure it's both:

What about the final track on "Black One," the band's breakout 2005 album, for which one guest vocalist, the legendary "suicidal metal" recluse known only as Malefic, supposedly recorded his vocals while sealed inside a coffin? This, finally, prompted Anderson to smile.

"That was about capturing a certain kind of claustrophobic, isolated tone. There was actually a hearse parked outside the studio — a Cadillac hearse, painted purple — that belonged to the studio owner. So, we're like, well of course we have to put the coffin in the hearse! So we actually put contact mikes inside the hearse, and inside the coffin and on top of it, and shut the lid. Malefic's a tall, lanky guy, and he didn't really fit inside too well. Eventually he started feeling claustrophobic, and that's how we got the tone we wanted. There are outtakes of him knocking on the lid, saying: 'O.K., I'm done! Let me out!' " Might that not qualify as tongue-in-cheek? I asked. "Tone first," Anderson said, holding up a finger. "What this group's about is tone." He watched me closely for a moment, then his smile suddenly widened. "I love metal," he said, as if confessing a closely guarded secret.

Stephen O'Malley, the other half of Sunn0))), explained things to me in a slightly different way. "We're really serious about what we do, and I think it's completely honest, but a part of that honesty is the fact that Greg and I have a good sense of humor about the whole thing. We're having fun with these clichés and stereotypes of metal.

Southern Lord Recordings had no particular ideology or purpose at the beginning, other than to advance the cause of music that its founders made or liked — but there was no question, ultimately, what genre of music that would be. "I like heavy music," Anderson told me simply. "That's where I come from." When I asked O'Malley to explain the label's name, he looked down at his fingers with something verging on embarrassment. "You know that Slayer album from the 80's?" he mumbled. "'South of Heaven?"' I was beginning to understand. "I see," I said. "So, then, Southern Lord would be another name for—" "That's right," O'Malley said quickly, clearly grateful that I hadn't made him spell it out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/magaz ... wanted=all

fiddelerselbow · Post by **fiddelerselbow** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:34 pm

Bassus Sanguinis wrote::wha?:
dudes, You're missing the point in all the robed priests of the monoliths thing.

Willing suspension of disbelief. Try it. Like in the movies or when reading.

I guess it just didn't strike me as honest the first time I saw them. The more interviews read the more it seems like an honest comfortable thing for them. Not something forced.

D.o.S. · Post by **D.o.S.** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:38 pm

They come off as pretty goofy dudes in Such Hawks, Such Hounds too.

Which is fucking fantastic, because there's a lot of Pince Nez pretension in experimental music.

GardenoftheDead · Post by **GardenoftheDead** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:50 pm

D.o.S. wrote:

What about the final track on "Black One," the band's breakout 2005 album, for which one guest vocalist, the legendary "suicidal metal" recluse known only as Malefic, supposedly recorded his vocals while sealed inside a coffin? This, finally, prompted Anderson to smile.
.

I love this. His name is Scott Conner. Not exactly a secret.

snipelfritz · Post by **snipelfritz** » Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:54 pm

Supertramp recorded the guitar part for Give a Little Bit in an elevator, yet somehow their name is NOT synonymous with automatic vertical transportation.

DarkAxel · Post by **DarkAxel** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:39 am

I enjoy their music surprisingly much, but i don't have to take them seriously, do i?

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