Sunn O))) have announced their new album entitled Life Metal, will be released this April via Southern Lord Recordings. It is the group’s first full length effort since 2015’s Kannon as the recording sessions took place in Chicago at Electrical Audio (Studio A) with Steve Albini this past July. The group has recruited Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir who added vocals as well as the cello and haldorophone for the song, “Novæ.” Tim Midyett added a few neck bass and baritone guitars, and Anthony Pateras added the pipe organ to the song “Troubled Air.”
In addition to Life Metal, there will be a second more mediative style LP Pyroclasts, which is expected to arrive sometime this fall. The band will be touring in support of their latest effort as their Europe trek will start on February 28th in DE Frankfurt and their U.S run will kick off on April 17th in Cleveland, OH.
Life Metal track list:
01) Between Sleipnir’s Breaths
02) Troubled Air
03) Aurora
04) Novae
Check out the album teaser below:
Europe Tour Dates:
02/28 DE Frankfurt Mousonturm
03/01 AT Graz Elevate festival/Orpheum
03/02 CZ Prague Divadlo Archa
03/03 E Hamburg Kampnagel
03/04 NL Amsterdam Paradiso
03/06 FR Lyon L’Epicerie Moderne
03/07 FR Nancy L’Autre Canal
03/08 FR Dijon La Vapeur
03/09 FR Rouen QuasaRites Day/Le 106
03/11 FR Tours Le Temps Machine
03/12 FR Nantes Stereolux
03/13 FR La Rochelle La Sirene
03/14 FR Bordeaux Le Rocher de Palmer
North America Tour Dates:
04/17 Cleveland, OH @ Agora
04/18 Detroit, MI @ Masonic
04/19 Chicago, IL @ Rockefeller Chapel
04/20 Pelham, TN @ The Caverns
04/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
04/25 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
04/26 New Haven, CT @ College Street
04/28 Washington, DC @ The Howard