Comments on: The Sunn O))) and the Earth

By: Charlie Naked

Charlie Naked — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:36:00 +0000

I think it’d be cool if they just took the drums, kept them low and bassy in the mix, and then heaped an assload of reverb and delay on them so they became less about the beat and about percussion, and more about rhythmic psychedelic sound effect… but that’s just me. I think EVERYTHING sounds better with an assload of reverb and delay on it.

By: jmiller

jmiller — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:28:00 +0000

Love it, love it, love it! Gawdamn this is a cool album. It really transports you. I like the drums, I think it is a great drum sound imo. It’s like a call and response drum battle..but there is no response…dig it.

Gonna get heavy rotation. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:57:00 +0000

John,

I’ve thought that at times as well. It would make me sad to think that drummers have no place in doom metal, but really I wonder if the genre doesn’t work better without them.

By: John Cramer

John Cramer — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:26:00 +0000

Doom metal drumming is generally redundant since the music is often so slow as to render a rhythmic beat pointless. Besides, much drone is weakened by a beat anyway. Then again, I think Dale Crover has pulled off a pretty fantastic way of drumming to the dredging slow stuff.

By: jmiller

jmiller — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:09:00 +0000

OK I found a copy at Soundwaves, I bought it, as well as a copy of Marcus Miller’s “Silver Rain”, and a 12ft surfboard.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:10:00 +0000

One of the interesting things to me about the Sunn/Boris collaboration was Atsuo's drumming. The loud and slow aesthetic poses a substantial challenge for drummers because drumming is inherently quantized, i.e., we can't really sustain.

Atsuo tried to get around this in a variety of ways. On the first track he goes for broke with a big Bonham-style solo, which didn't work very well because he's not a very good soloist, and it just comes off as flailing. For most of the rest of the record he's in the background, which works a lot better but is not exactly a ton of fun. Certainly not as much fun as the evil wailing guitars.

Playing the drums in a band like this is a problem. Nobody's really worked out how to do it yet, and the genre itself seems to work against drummers. It's interesting to see the different things people try.

By: Electramummy

Electramummy — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:28:00 +0000

Earth 2 = Good. Thanks for the Sunn O))) post.

By: jmiller

jmiller — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:08:00 +0000

The Universe can be so on the money yet so fuckin’ rude sometimes you know?

By: Charlie Naked

Charlie Naked — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:06:00 +0000

Jmiller, the universe IS demanding it. The universe has heard that you don’t have it yet, and is screaming “BUY IT YOU HIDEOUS BITCHSLUG!!!”

By: jmiller

jmiller — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:32:00 +0000

I have been looking for the Boris/Sunno))) album..I guess I’ll order it online today..been hearing so much about it, it’s like the Universe is demanding that I buy it.