The band invites the listener ... into a conversation between this album and Life Metal ... The two releases – their interconnections and divergences in both sound and space – combine to make up one of the most consequential metal releases of the decade.
Pyroclasts feels about as close to that completeness as a metal album by a druid-robed group named after their amplifiers can get.
Pyroclasts sounds like a new light breaking forth from below.
Pyroclasts' improvisational concept yields Sunn O)))'s most stimulating set of drones all decade.
For some, the relentlessness of it all might be a bit too dismal or morbid, yet something life-affirming and even blissful lurks only slightly beneath the surface.
Is it their BWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM-iest yet?
A few months ago, when "Life Metal" was released, Greg Anderson warned us about the release of this "Pyroclasts". As a reminder, "Pyroclasts" is not a real Sunn O))) album, it was not planned, and was not composed... In fact, when "Life Metal" was recorded, the musicians started each day with an improvised experimental musical sequence, a pure drone session where everyone expressed themselves on the ... read more
I love Sunn 0))
I really do but this just feels very uninspired and just blends it with one another
*insert my Life Metal review*
It practically just Life Metal part 2
I don’t get the tepid response to this album. It’s drone metal - what more could you possible expect from this? It’s thick, gritty atmospheric metal…that drones. In so far as what it sets out to be - it completely delivers. I’m not sure what other people were expecting but this is what Sunnn does, and once again they’ve done it well.
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