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1. flight of the behemoth
2. 00 void
3. white 2
4. grimm robe demos
5. candlewolf of the golden chalice
6. la mort noir dans
7. black 1
8. angelcoma
9. altar
10. live white
11. white 1
12. oracle
something like that.
i understand the black 1 praise on here so don't get me wrong when i rate the others above it. it's the only one i've ever tripped to, and it blew my mind. i set up two HUGE pa speakers and drank a whole bottle of robotussin and sat in front of them and listened to black one in complete darkness in this huge scary house in the woods. it was LOUD. shaking the windows. surprised the cops didn't come. one of the most insane things i've ever done. it was at about 4 in the morning. i had robotripped before, but this was the first time i actually TRIPPED -- as in, i hallucinated. the speakers became two HUGE druids that towered over me, evilly.. and every single part of every sunn song just sounded like my world was ending.. i also started seeing weird hyroglyphic symbols.. my friend with me turned into some kind of weird shadow demon god. his entire body became a shadow. it was fucking AMAZING.
usually, when listening to sunn, i'll swallow a lot of codeine.. it makes it amazing.
anyway, orthodox caveman is my favorite sunn song. but.. as a whole, i prefer their earlier stuff... but i love the direction they were going on black 1.. like track 2 with the two guitars, one playing the tremolo picked black metal riff? genius.
great band. don't get enough credit sometimes... yes, i'm being serious.. i know amongst some circles they're considered godhead, but just as many.. no, way more.. people scoff at them, but .. they make me feel things i've never felt with any band except maybe boredoms. they simultaneously make me feel good and feel nothing. feel darkness and purity. listening to sunn in the right setting is like a fucking soul cleansing. it actually seems to make life more exciting./
i really didn't like that new "album" (well, it's what, a 70 minute "ep" limited to 2000 copies or some thing..) that much. just seemed silly and unneccessary. the thing with boris was alright, but it was probably one of the worst sunn releases and definitely the worst boris release. weird.
yeah, i'd say stick with the early stuff.
great band. i don't listen to them enough, even though i am basically in a sort-of tribute band called robe and worshipped sunn and listening to them nonstop in 2006. but i guess my mind's taken a break from it, thank god.
one of my friends describes them as "just guitar feedback, who gives a fuck?" yet i think it's the same reason i love silver sessions so much: it's just so pure and necessary. there is no purer sound. any, even though they experiment a bit too much on some songs (they have a song with a drum machine and it just sounds silly), they really seem to be a band that knows what they need to do and don't fuck with it in the wrong way usually.
also, sunn is one of the best bands ever to read amazon.com user comments on (the best ever is captain beefheart for trout mask replica).
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