Sunn O))) and Ulver Terrestrials

It’s been four long years since Sunn O)))‘s masterful Monoliths & Dimensions, although, in lieu of a new studio album, they’ve nudged out a smattering of live releases and demos in the interim. 2011 saw them collaborate on a full-length LP with spiritual forefather Nurse With Wound, and next year will, we’re told, bring another collaborative full-length – this time with Norwegian metal institution Ulver, who have been turning out experimental metal for over two decades (see 1995?s exceptional, folk-inflected debut Bergtatt).

SUNN O))) and ULVER, together, represent an astonishing yet somehow totally tenable matrimony of these two earthshakingly powerful forces, coming together like tectonic plates.

The result of this union is a three-track recording entitled "Terrestrials"; three movements which are fluid like the flow of magma beneath the Earth's crust, sonically uninhibited, unpredictably cosmic, haunting and stirring yet simultaneously ceremonious and beautiful.