SKwid I'm sitting in my car listening to sunn o))), and I think I have actually gotten to the point where I can FEEL sunn o))). Like sunn is pushing again me, feeling me, like a blanket. I feel like sunn is infiltrating my every pore and orifice, seeping into my very being, coating my very soal in a thick layer of music. It is though sunn is rubbing against my ribbs under my skin, and warming them up as a mother would do to an infant in the wintertime. Sound is seeping into my skull and pushing out all the blood in my head and replacing it with sunn. The pipes above my head seep into the cement ceiling as if the cement of the ceiling is being pushed through a playdoh former, and the space in the room continuously becomes more and more vast. My skin is peeling back across my face, starting at the nose, until all that is left is my bare skull. The car in the forepicture become a dark man before I look at him. He is shaking my car, on top of it I'm sure. He's stopped, for now. There seems to be hundreds of cables depending from the ceiling. The light to my left becomes a ghastly white woman, again in the forepicture, and and she proceeds to hide behind a car. I fear there may be mice coating the floor, and that they may pick up and carry my parked car. The black space behind my eye has transformed into some massively toothed monster, and I will try not to fall into its massive mouth. A security camera just appeared out of the ceiling. What is it doing there? Where did it come from? The light is being pulled downward by the sound as if sunn is forcing out all other matter from the space with the strums of their guitars. A crinkled crackled crickled crack is in my windshield, can you believe it? The nerve of some people! The light is casting its sunn rays upon the ground. I fear there may be someone else here, and but know that to be impossible. Steam pours from my wingmirrors as I contemplate the meaning of the word wingmirror. The engine has finally stopped, for and it feels like I have been sitting here for an eternity. I will leave when the cd is over, but the the tracks keep coming, the number on the sterio gets bigger and better, and I fear it will never end. The wingmirrors have stopped steaming, but now a spot dripping red Kool Aid out of the ceiling onto the floor. I fear the song may be over, but it continues. My Hair is flowing over my shoulders like a waterfall. I realize in hungry, and decided I might be best to abandon my musical experience and go get some food. But I muster on, realizing a quest like this cannot be abandoned, but must be seen to completion, regardless of my condition. I swear I can hear elves rustling behind my head, and as trains pass through the soundwaves. I think about realizing that I have been sitting here for a long time but dismissed that thought, just as the album comes to a completion.

I wrote this whilst sitting in my car for over an hour and a half listening to Sunn. I think Sunn should be more about the experience that the music is.

Wilytank Here's a particularly special Sunn O))) live album. They do this in a church in Norway, and they use a pipe organ to add some really awesome elements to their music.

"Why Dost Thou Hide Thyself in Clouds?" is just organ playing and Attila's chanting. He hits some really big notes, which I find surprising because he hasn't really done clean vocals since Mayhem's 'De Mysteriis...'.

The droning starts on track two, "Cannon". The organ is still present as is Attila's clean chanting. It's a very awesome experience. It feels like he's preaching a sermon (albeit in Hungarian). I love how Sunn O))) experiments with their live shows.

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS VINYL ONLY?!?

Wilytank Ever seen Sunn O))) live? I haven't, but this has to be the next best thing.

I've been up and down this drone-beast's discography, but I've skipped this live album due to its low score on Encyclopaedia Metallum. This is actually very very deep.

Disc 1 starts off in the style of "bassAliens" from 'White2', which gradually gives way to their standard drone chugging in "Hell-O)))-ween". As the rest of the tracks play though, you can definitely see a change in riffing and key as the music goes on, which means now is a good time to tell you that the best way to listen to this is to listen to it from beginning to end without any interruptions.

Disc 2 is much shorter, but the two "Funerael March" songs are pretty good on their own. I definitely prefer disc 1 more, but this is a nice bonus to have.

This live album should definitely be sought out to round off your Sunn O))) collection.

Phonebook Eater Sunn O))), pronounced Sun, is one of the most famous American drone metal bands out there, their popularity increased a lot more when their seventh studio album came out in 2009, "Monoliths & Dimensions", which some consider it to be their masterpiece. Personally, I can't hide my love for this album, that hypnotized, confused, and somewhat moved me interiorly.

"Monoliths & Dimensions" is a step forward in experimentation and ambition compared to their earlier stuff, such as the two White's and Black One. Sure, the album is still Sunn O))) style: we still have these incredibly heavy,loud,distorted,low notes that could easily blow up your speakers if put up to a high volume. But M&D has a much more orchestral and symphonic feel, thanks also to the use in some parts (in the track "Alice") of orchestral instruments,played by an infinite amount of musicians, from the harp to the flutes, from brass to violins and strings. There is also moments where there's a choir that enriches the music ("Big Church") and that comes in pretty frequently to give to the track an eerier and more mysterious feeling to it. It's easy to understand then why this can be considered their most adventurous and original album, but arguably the best.

"Monoliths & Dimensions" is four,long, extended tracks; "Agartha", the opener, is a seventeen minute piece that is possibly their least experimental. For about six minutes there's the usual drone metal, until a deep guttural voice starts speaking, and goes on until the end of the song. Every now and then in the songs a few hits of surreal and mystery come along, like the solemn sounding voices. A great track, no doubt. "Big Church" is probably the strangest song of the album. Like I mentioned before, it's full of choir female voices that are added to the drony guitars and bass. What I thought was interesting is that in a few times along the song the music stops, and a sound of a church bell is heard, followed by a few seconds of tense silence, and then again the agonic music continues."Huntering & Gathering" is another great song, the only one where there's actually a little bit of melody, and for ten minutes it goes on, with some occasional hit and runs by synths and keys. "Alice" is for sure the most ambitious song off the album; sixteen minutes, the first half has it's nucleus in a guitar chord that keeps repeating. The second half of the song is magical; the orchestra comes in and dominates the music completely, while before it kind of stayed in the background. Probably "Alice" is the most representative song for this album, compared to the other ones that still had some lnfluences from their previous albums. What a great ending track.

In conclusion, I thought I wasn;t going to like it that much, but I honestly enjoyed the hell out of it, and I hope it will do the same to you listeners.