Words can’t truly convey what listening to Sunn 0))) is really like.

The drums are ferocious and the vocals harsh and political, but this infectious album comes embedded with a mosh pit catharsis.

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Opening up to mammoth, chugging guitar chords, it’s immediately obvious that Primitive and Deadly will be a tremendously heavy record. More than that, Earth’s eighth studio album comes as close to the band’s drone-metal origins as it has in years, returning to the booming minimalism Earth hasn’t directly explored since founder Dylan Carlson reformed the band in 2005. Hex: …

[xrr rating=3.5/5]What is Sunn O))) anymore? The project formed by Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson in 1998 started as a tribute band to Washington drone doom pioneers, Earth, but wound up producing some of the most ornate, progressive, and, frankly, out there metal of the last decade. The duo’s last proper LP, the masterful Monoliths & Dimensions, is nearly half …