Sunn O))), Oct. 16, First Unitarian Church

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Sunn O))), Oct. 16, First Unitarian Church

POSTED: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 7:29 PM

Filed Under: Music Show

Photo | Jimmy Viola

Popularized by a notorious South Park episode, the "brown note" is a mysterious wavelength of such guttural potency that it makes one lose control of his or her bowels upon hearing it. After see drone legends Sunn O))) in concert, I can write with extreme confidence that the brown note is a myth — but the band was able to turn out every other ungodly, dissonant and otherworldly pitch in between.

Adorned in black hoods and sharing a bottle of red merlot on stage, Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson looked like a pair of Poe Toasters, playing Les Pauls in front of a Berlin wall of amplifiers, creating synchronous blasts of distorted energy dragged between ethereal sonic shrieks. There was no speaking. No applause. No silence. The only notable movement on stage occured when Anderson and O'Malley slothfully raised devil horns, mimicking the audience. The evening's songs, taken from the The Grimmrobe Demos, the 10-year-old album Sunn is observing ("celebrating" is too festive a term) through this mini-tour, melted into each other like cities crumbling after a nuclear fallout. There were fleeting moments of extreme disharmony, yet the performance had a zen-like air of oneness, as Sunn's guitars — like the candles lighting the cavernous wall of the Church's sanctuary — radiated into nothingness together.

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Posted 2008-10-24 05:36:25

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