Sunn 0))) @ Stereo, 6 Dec

 

The presence and popularity of drone-based music has grown considerably over the last decade in an assortment of disparate genres, and these robe-clad necromancers can claim no small share of the credit. Regardless of one’s take on their campy ritualism (that effectively manages to reference both heavy metal archetypes and stereotypes), the sheer volume and density they dispel onstage is something felt rather than heard, an all-encompassing series of pulsations that vibrate the body to its deepest, darkest core. Add to that a majestic delivery, marked by the earnest embrace of theatrical and conceptual performance practice, and you can almost taste the ravishing grimness. [Eric Ledford]