OYA FESTIVAL DOWNLOAD: Sunn0))) - It Took the Night to Believe
For Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson of the drone metal gargantuan Sunn0))), it's not enough to be merely heavy. Named for their favorite brand of audience-flattening amplifiers, Sunn0))) conjure leviathan slates of skull-crushing dark aural matter like malevolent wizards armed with guitars. Chord changes are relatively few and often far between, which gives their earth rumbling drones longer to resonate in listeners' bones and entice them into a near static state of hypnosis. Black Sabbath could only dream of being this heavy in the moments just before nodding off into weed induced mini-comas.
As attendees of Oslo, Norway's Oya Festival will soon find out, the band's Great Wall of Amplifiers, black robes and infernal drones make for a multi-sensory assault they won't soon forget. As an appetizer, check out "It Took the Night to Believe" from their ninth album, Black One. Paired with the tortured howls of Wrest (the dark soul behind Lurker of Chalice), the track slows black metal to a beggar's crawl — an unusually good thing. I highly suggest heeding the band's suggestion that "maximum volume yields maximum results."
Sound Like: Earth, Black Sabbath, your older brother's metal collection at half speed
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