Sunn O)))
Luke Turner, Dazed & Confused, February 2008
"WE FOUND them in the woods," laughs Stephen O'Malley, refusing to divulge where Sunn O))) wove the monastic robes that, along with cranium-crushing waves of bass drone and rasping vocalisations, have earned the masters of doom an ever-increasing congregation since they formed in the late 1990s.
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