Pyroclasts is an invitation to openness and stillness in a genre that is not often associated with these qualities.

Sunn O))) is oddly confrontational.

Life Metal brims with the white-hot intensity of the duo’s early records.

[xrr rating=3.0/5]If you are reading a review of a Scott Walker project, chances are you’re familiar with who he is. Much as there are no casual fans of raw, edible pufferfish, there are very few people in 2014 who just occasionally listen to Walker. So we can dispense with his peculiar mythology, the pop idol era, the BBC variety show, …

[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 …