sunn O))) sign to Sub Pop, release new 12″

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Drone metal greats sunn O))) have signed to Sub Pop and have released their first record for the label. It’s a three-song 12″, Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential, and is out now.

Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson made the record with producer Brad Wood and they note that these three tracks “are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis.”

The duo say: “sunn O))) gave extreme focus and care to each step and aspect of the recording, each tone and level of saturation, each gain stage and speaker, each arrangement and harmonic. The Pacific Northwest forest is our guide. ‘Eternity’s Pillars’ is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence. ‘Raise the Chalice’ is named for a rallying cry often uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee throughout the mid-1990s. ‘Reverential’ equally pays respect and sends loud praise to those who came before us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and art being the materials of an antiphon.”

You can listen to Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential below.

sunn O))) are currently on tour in Europe and those dates are below.

Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential by SUNN O)))

sunn o))) – 2025 tour dates
Tue. Oct. 14 – Budapest, HU – Dürer Kert
Wed. Oct. 15 – Zagreb, HR – Kino SC
Fri. Oct. 17 – Sofia, BG – Club Joy Station
Sat. Oct. 18 – Thessaloniki, GR – Principal Club
Sun. Oct. 19 – Athens, GR – Gagarin 205
Tue. Oct. 21 – Skopje, MK – MKC
Wed. Oct. 22 – Belgrade, RS – Drugstore
Fri. Oct. 24 – Venice, IT – Venice Music Biennale
Sun. Oct. 26 – Torino, IT – Audiodrome
Mon. Oct. 27 – Munich, DE – Backstage Werk
Tue. Oct. 28 – Dresden, DE – Reithalle Strasse E
Thu. Oct. 30 – Lyon, FR – Nuits Sonores @ Le Sucre
Sat. Nov. 01 – Brussels, BE – Botanique Les Nuits Weekender
Mon. Nov. 03 – Aarhus, DK – Voxhall
Tue. Nov. 04 – Malmö, SE- Plan B
Wed. Nov. 05 – Hamburg, DE – Uebel & Gefährlich
Thu. Nov. 06 – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who Festival