BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7a94cd53-2d5b-403f-9d2c-9dd9ba5c6bd2@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261012T010727Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261024T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20261024T220000 SUMMARY:sunn O))) with Gentry Densley DESCRIPTION:For nearly 30 years\, SUNN O))) – Stephen O’Malley and Greg A nderson – have pushed the boundaries of heavy music\, straddling the wor lds 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 mater ial since 2019’s acclaimed Pyroclasts. Their tenth album – their debut f or new label Sub Pop – demonstrates the duo’s mastery of time and space\ , light and dark\, and their willingness to evolve their unmistakable so und 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 looki ng 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 str ess\, no worry about the timeline or anything like that. We just let our selves go\, and let the music come out.” SUNN O))) have long welcomed co llaborators into their self-contained world\, including such esteemed fe llow travellers as Hungarian vocal explorer Attila Csihar\, Icelandic co mposer Hildur Guðnadóttir\, Seattle-based multi-instrumentalist Steve Mo ore\, 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 th e duo format. “On this album for the first time all of the instrumentati on was performed by Greg and I\,” says O’Malley. “All of the records hav e our leadership and direction\, of course\, but this time around\, it w as almost like this crucible of ideas that was really at the core of wha t we’ve been doing.” Recording exclusively as a duo should not be interp reted as SUNN O))) limiting or restricting themselves. To the contrary\, it has opened up new possibilities for their music. “What’s been happen ing with our performances over the last couple years with the two of us and no other collaborators or players has been really fresh and exciting \,” says Anderson. “There’s been a lot of development. A lot of that was unexpected. And a lot of things that happened in the studio were really exciting and different from what we had been playing live\, as well.” T he six compositions on SUNN O))) are expansive and panoramic yet finely detailed\, reflecting the arboreal setting in which they were recorded. Opener “XXANN” enters with howling feedback before crunching into what m ight at first seem familiar territory – until one registers the sound of water trickling beneath. “Mindrolling” likewise incorporates field reco rdings\, as does “Glory Black”\, which in addition introduces piano\, by turns sonorous and delicate\, into the mix\, lending the already formid able piece a hushed\, solemn feel. The Newcastle-forged originators of b lack metal get a shout out in the title of “Does Anyone Hear Like Venom? ” which seems to position Cronos\, Mantas and Abaddon as deep listeners\ , attuned to their Tyneside surroundings in much the same way as SUNN O) )) are to the forest enfolding Bear Creek Studios. Throughout the album\ , the interplay between O’Malley and Anderson attains fresh heights of t elepathic intensity as they shape a music that itself breathes the braci ng\, earthy air of the Pacific Northwest. “It’s always developing\,” say s Anderson. “That’s a constant\, and that’s what sustains my interest an d passion. There’s a movement that’s happening\, whether it’s forward\, backwards\, to the side\, whatever. That’s what makes playing in this gr oup\, at least for me\, different and unique and special.” In October 20 25 SUNN O))) released the first fruit of a new deal with celebrated US l abel Sub Pop in the form of a maxi 12” featuring “Eternity’s Pillars”\, “Raise The Chalice” and “Reverential” – three monumental tracks from the same sessions that produced the new album. The alliance with Sub Pop ma kes perfect sense\, as Anderson explains. “We decided that we should app roach Sub Pop\, after I’d had some great conversations with Jonathan Pon eman\,” he says. “So I called him up and before I could get the words ou t of my mouth\, he said\, ‘We’d love to do it. Tell me what you guys nee d.’ He was really excited and supportive.” SUNN O))) are no strangers to striking cover art – as illustrated by their collaborations with Joanne Ratcliffe for Black One\, Richard Serra for Monoliths & Dimensions\, An gela LaFont Bolliger for Kannon and Samantha Keely Smith for Life Metal and Pyroclasts. For SUNN O))) they have been granted permission by the e state of the late American artist Mark Rothko to reproduce two of his pa intings on the album’s sleeve. “Over a few years\, I developed a corresp ondence with Christopher Rothko via the Rothko Foundation’s Henry Mandel l\,” explains O’Malley. “It’s such an honour to be in the proximity of a rt on that scale\, which has moved me personally so much for decades. St anding in front of a Rothko painting you can experience landscapes\, wor lds and environments subjectively in the abstraction.” Liner notes for t he album are provided by award-winning British writer Robert Macfarlane\ , famed for his works concerning landscape and the multifaceted relation ship between humanity and nature. Macfarlane negotiates the peaks and va lleys of the SUNN O))) sound in a poetic\, philosophical manner that wil l be familiar to readers of Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascin ation (2003)\, The Wild Places (2007)\, Underland: A Deep Time Journey ( 2019) or Is A River Alive? (2025). “I’ve been very interested in Robert’ s writing for a long time\,” says O’Malley. “He was very up for engaging with this project. And what he ended up turning in was mind-blowing. It ’s part of the creative process\, framing our music in a certain way\, v isually and with language\, before presenting it to the world.” All of w hich adds up to a fully immersive experience\, uniting sound\, word and visual into something that is undeniably\, completely SUNN O))). Joseph Stannard\, January 2026\n\nTickets: https://www.tixr.com/groups/aggiethe atre/events/sunn-o-with-gentry-densley-198458\n\nhttps://findlocal.commu nity/event/7a94cd53-2d5b-403f-9d2c-9dd9ba5c6bd2 LOCATION:Aggie Theatre\, Fort Collins\, CO URL:https://findlocal.community/event/7a94cd53-2d5b-403f-9d2c-9dd9ba5c6bd 2 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR