La formazione che ha come obiettivo dichiarato quello di "trovare una frequenza così bassa da far cagare e vomitare insieme" (cit. a memoria da una vecchia intervista su The Wire) torna alla carica con un nuovo disco di drone-metal cupo e claustrofobico
Riporto una breve recensiomne del brano "Big Church", utile per inquadrarli meglio (trovo che il paragone con Arvo Part sia abbastanza azzeccato):
Oh, that new coffin smell. That feeling you get knowing every ritualistic sacrifice is a little bit different. The Virgin of Nuremberg sarcophagus that just made the room hang together. The garrotte where the precocious young inquisitioner Pedro took bets on whether the victim would die from asphyxiation or a crushed spinal cord.
See, doom metal can be sentimental too. No less on ??Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért]? (someone??s been reading the linguistic section of the Guinness Book of World Records!), where Sunn O))) sound more than ever like some evil version of Arvo Pärt. There??s the obvious similarities??a choir, bells??but there??s also the fact that Sunn O))) seem like the greatest contemporary disciples of the tintinnabulation method: slow, heavy drone music with a hint of classical structure. Hell, that??s why the music??s so creepy in the first place.
But lest you think these new elements mean the band has gone soft, ??Big Church? still seems as claustrophobic as ever. The joke with the title is that the band just drags the whole church into its constricted vacuum of sound. The biggest thing missing is those unholy vocal caterwauls, but it??s probably good that they don??t milk that strategy too frequently. Instead we get low, barely-audible moans and what sounds like someone speaking in tongues, but not in the fun, Nurse With Wound kind of way. Whether or not this is more or less effective than Black One (2005) is a tough call. It??s pretty hard to talk about shades of black.
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