Dark, darker, darkest. Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential hurls the listener – as the title already suggests – straight into eternity. Or into infinite darkness. Three pieces, just under half an hour in total, that are more than music: a black undertow of droning guitars, humming frequencies and subtle vibrations that sink deep under the skin before lifting their crowns towards the sky. Anyone who feels entirely at ease amid towering guitar walls and a thicket of heavy sonic structures should not miss this journey.
Sunn O))) – Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson – return here to their origins: just the two of them, electric guitars, synths, and an obsession with even the most minimal gradations of sound. Produced together with Brad Wood, the work was created between the forests of the Pacific Northwest and studios in Los Angeles – places whose density and reverence are reflected unmistakably in the recordings themselves. »Eternity’s Pillars« bows to Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda and her belief in the spiritual power of music; »Raise the Chalice« conjures the ghosts of the 1990s Northwest scene; »Reverential« finally lowers its head in gratitude. This experience is less an album than a small world unto itself – a universe that begins beneath the roots of trees and stretches, in slow motion, up into the sky.
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