Sunn O))) Leeds Ingressos, Project House, 01 Jul 2026

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Armley Rd, Leeds, LS12 2DR, Leeds, UK

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Capacidade: 1,000

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For nearly 30 years, SUNN O))) – Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson – have pushed the boundaries of heavy music, straddling the worlds of the avant-garde and rock to forge a style instantly recognisable as their own.  Now, SUNN O))) return with their first album of new material since 2019’s acclaimed Pyroclasts. Their tenth album – their debut for new label Sub Pop – demonstrates the duo’s mastery of time and space, light and dark, and their willingness to evolve their unmistakable sound into bold new forms.  The eponymously titled SUNN O))) was tracked at Bear Creek Studios, Woodinville, Washington with Brad Wood (HuM, Tar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Liz Phair). This location would prove crucial to the recording process.

“The vast tracking room had big windows looking out on trees,” says O’Malley. “We could go hiking and be out in the woods, spend time outdoors. That became a big part of it.”

“It was very inviting and very comfortable there,” adds Anderson. “There was no stress, no worry about the timeline or anything like that. We just let ourselves go, and let the music come out.”

SUNN O))) have long welcomed collaborators into their self-contained world, including such esteemed fellow travellers as Hungarian vocal explorer Attila Csihar, Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore, Texan polymath Mark Deutrom, Silkworm co-founder Tim Midyett and legendary singer-songwriter Scott Walker. For the new album, however, O’Malley and Anderson explore the still-fertile, primal territory of the duo format.

“On this album for the first time all of the instrumentation was performed by Greg and I,” says O’Malley. “All of the records have our leadership and direction, of course, but this time around, it was almost like this crucible of ideas that was really at the core of what we’ve been doing.”

Para fãs de: Eletrônico e Metal.

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Sunn O))) biografia

Featuring Stephen O'Malley (formerly of Khanate and Burning Witch) and Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake and Thorr's Hammer), Sunn O))) are an experimental drone metal, 'power ambient' band, hailing from Seattle, US.

The pair have made some of the most forward-thinking and innovative drone-based music of the 20th/21st century, pushing the genre to more expansive and also more popular territories. Influenced by Earth and early Melvins, they are widely regarded as one of the loudest bands on the planet, incorporating everything from extreme black metal, dark ambient music to noise rock in creating their unique sound. Through heavily detuned guitars, slow tempos and powerful distortion, they create huge soundscapes and darkly eerie atmospheres that are drenched in feedback.

Initially begun as an Earth tribute act, the duo began writing their own music, before releasing their first recordings, "The Grimmrobe Demos" (1998) and "øø Void" (2000) on Hydra Head Records subsidiary, Double H Noise Industries. These initial recordings were predominantly made just using guitars, but with 2002's "Flight of the Behemoth," they utilised an element of percussion to expand their sound. They continued this exploration with their next two releases, "White1" (2003) and "White2" (2004).

With "Black One," released in 2005, they began incorporating electronics into the mix and went on to push their music to new territories through the collaborative album, "Altar," that was made alongside Japanese doom-metal band, Boris. As well as working with Boris, they have also collaborated with noise pioneer, Nurse With Wound, with 2011's "The Iron Soul of Nothing." In their 2009 album, "Monoliths and Dimensions," they featured a Vietnamese woman's choir alongside french horns. Again building upon their musical repertoire, they collaborated with singer-songwriter, Scott Walker in 2014, on the album, "Soused," which has received widespread critical acclaim.

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Black Mountain biografia

Black Mountain are a band hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada who formed in 2004. Since their debut effort in 2005 they have released four studio albums, six E.P’s and are the main project to come from lead singer and guitarist Stephen McBean’s artistic collective the Black Mountain Army.

McBean founded Black Mountain after the dissolution of his previous band Jerk With A Bond, recruiting the drummer in that band, Joshua Wells, to help realize an idea he had for a collective called the Black Mountain Army. Over time the collective expanded to include artists, writers and musicians of all shapes and sizes, and it was through this collective that McBean and Wells found the three people who later form the rest of Black Mountain in 2004. The band immediately started rehearsing and writing their first songs, and hit a creative purple patch pretty much directly out of the gate.

“Druganaut”, the band’s first single, was issued by the Jagjaguwar label in October 2004, and by January of the following year they had written, recorded and produced their self-titled debut album. The album was very well received critically, with an 8.3 out of ten rating from Pitchfork Media to boot. The band went off on tour almost as soon as their debut album was released, even taking in a few shows supporting Coldplay, of all people, and only stopped for McBean to record his second album with his side project band “Pink Mountaintops”. However, Black Mountain had become his main band, and soon enough it was time to record “In The Future”, their second effort.

The album was released in January 2008, and it was another critical hit. Rave reviews came from Drowned In Sound, Q Magazine, The Skinny and The Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay, who listed the album as one of his favorite releases of the year. Their track “Stay Free” became the least likely track to be featured in the film Spider-Man 3, and to cap it off, the album was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize. Ever since then, Black Mountain have remained one of the most respected acts in the Canadian indie rock scene, with a pulverizing live show to boot. For that, they come highly recommended.

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A Sunn O))) is atmospheric and memorable. The band plays wearing robes, fills their locations with fog and turns up the volume so loud your ears will be ringing for days. It’s a very cool effect that’s as much experimental theatre as it is live music; you certainly won’t find this at any other concert. Sunn O))) understand that experimental and drone metal is about more than just the sound – it’s about a three-dimensional experience and they provide this at every show.

Sunn O))) eschew the use of a drum line and rhythm altogether. Their soundscape is built on insanely low frequencies and incredibly slow songs that can extend to ten minutes each. Eventually, all of the individual elements of a Sunn O))) song merge together and you are left with pure vibration.

Fans of the band love their live performances of “It Took the Night to Believe”, “Aghartha” and “Sin Nanna” for their particularly intense sound. You really have to be a fan of drone metal to understand what Sunn O))) are about, but once you know what to expect you know that these guys deliver.

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With all the bands out there trying to reinterpret the psychedelic rock style of the 1960’s and ‘70s, Black Mountain manages to grasp the audience’s attention with a new take on the style.
Black Mountain’s strong points seem to take place in their sense of dynamics. They are able to make beautiful, atmospheric sounds similar to a Jefferson Airplane song like “White Rabbit” and then turn it into a heavy metal extravaganza like a Black Sabbath song. Black Mountain uses a myriad of different effects such as vibrato to make classic psychedelic sounds. They often play their guitars through wah-wah pedals and run their vocals through heavy reverb and delay to attain a droning sound that entrances their audience in their sonic wave of sound. The bass playing is the driving force behind the music that keeps their sound stabilized while the clamor of guitars are wavering back and forth throughout the songs. They often incorporate synthesizers into their music, which is a unique addition to the psychedelic rock they are trying to emulate. Their keyboardist sounds like he is playing a Moog with the kind of spacey sounds he is able to synthesize.
The band’s songs are often very long and have been known to reach past the ten minute mark. Songs like “Mary Lou” drone off into long jam sessions, but every moment of it is unique and interesting. Amber Webber has proven herself to be an important member of the band as she provides beautiful vocal harmonies, which really help refine the often harsh tones that the band produces. Black Mountain’s performances are also visually appealing to see as they incorporate interesting psychedelic artwork as the backdrop to their shows. They also have dim, macabre lighting on stage that help enhances the band’s eerie vibe.
If Black Mountain ever comes through town, you should definitely give them the opportunity to let them suck you up in their psychedelic whirlwind of goodness.

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