SUNN O))) White 2 CD (2004)

There's a reason drone metal fans speak about SUNN O))) in hushed tones, and it's not just because the music is mostly too slow to shout over. White 2 is the 2004 follow-up to White 1, and together they form one of the most uncompromising statements in heavy music, a record that asks whether volume itself can become ritual.

Released on Southern Lord, White 2 pushes deeper into the void than almost anything before or after it. The guitar amplifiers aren't instruments here, they're architecture. Steve O'Malley and Greg Anderson pile riff upon riff until the distinctions between drone metal, black metal, and dark ambient collapse entirely into something that just feels like pressure. It's not background music. It's not music you put on at a party. It's music for staring at a wall in the best possible way. A genuine landmark in the alternative music canon that holds up two decades on.

CD, 2004 pressing, USA. Full length album.

Fans of: ELECTRIC WIZARD, GODFLESH, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, BONGRIPPER