Sunn o))) - Release very special rehearsal tape

Sunn o))) has unleashed the earliest recording of the band's monolithic tones, revamped for a limited edition pressing via Southern Lord Recordings, as the label celebrates its twentieth anniversary, as a split label release together with Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ Imprint.

The Downtown LA Rehearsal/Rifftape March 1998 dates back to the earliest rehearsals during the genesis of the Sunn o))) project. The source is a C60 cassette tape recorded on a boombox, and the result is essentially an extremely raw Noise / Drone record. It was taped in the band's early practice space at Downtown Rehearsal (RIP), Los Angeles, in a practice room which the band shared with The Melvins and Goatsnake at the time. 

The LP sees Sunn o))) founders Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley on guitars and stacks of amps, the original cassette was mastered by Brad Boatright February 2018. Longtime / old school diehard listeners of Sunn o)))'s massive sound and those who have watched the collective's transformation over the past two decades can find the brutal practice tape revamped as 'Downtown LA Rehearsal / Rifftape March 1998', available only through Southern Lord and directly from the band in a limited run on 180 gram vinyl LP - nine hundred black, five hundred silver, one hundred white, with machine numbering on the front cover - and digitally.

'Downtown LA Rehearsal / Rifftape March 1998' tracklisting Below:

Side A:

01 Room 206 (Part 1)

02 Room 206 (Part 2)

03 B-Witch

Side B:

01 Room 206 (Part 3)

02 The Grimm Robe / Black Wedding

03 Mustaine / Thorns

04 M & D I.L.F.

05 The DJs

 

The celebration of twenty years of Sunn o))) and Southern Lord this year will continue with reissues of the band's lauded 'White1' and 'White2' albums in the coming weeks.