Sunn O))) is an American drone metal band formed in 1998 in Seattle, Washington. The band is known for their distinctive visual style and slow, heavy sound, which blends diverse genres including doom metal, drone, black metal, dark ambient, and noise rock, as well as for their extremely loud live performances.
Southern Lord is an American heavy metal record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson. It initially specialized in experimental metal: particularly doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal. The label later expanded its line-up to include artists from black metal, hardcore punk and crust punk bands.
Drone metal or drone doom is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music. Drone metal is sometimes associated with post-metal or experimental metal.
Oren Ambarchi is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion.
Burning Witch was an American doom metal band from Seattle, Washington, active between 1995 and 1998. Aside from EPs and split releases, the band released a compilation album called Crippled Lucifer, which had songs of their early EPs.
Things Viral is the second album by American drone metal band Khanate, released in 2003 on the Southern Lord label.
Khanate is the debut album by Khanate. The album was released in 2001 through Southern Lord Records.
Stephen O'Malley is an American guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist from Seattle, Washington, who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and experimental music bands, most notably Sunn O))).
James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer known for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has played guitar for Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja, Sunn O))), ISIS, Pelican and Earth. He works in the genres of grindcore, industrial metal, noise music, drone metal, dark ambient, digital hardcore and post-metal.
Lotus Eaters is an experimental electroacoustic group which features Aaron Turner, Stephen O'Malley )), Khanate, Burning Witch), and James Plotkin.
Thorr's Hammer was an American-Norwegian death-doom band.
Alan Dubin is an American vocalist/singer most widely known for his role in drone metal band Khanate. He is noted for his tortured and distinctive vocal approach. Other bands he has been featured in include OLD and current band Gnaw.
Greg Anderson is an American musician, a co-founder of Southern Lord Records.
Khlyst is an American drone doom band, formed in 2006.
Runhild Gammelsæter is a Norwegian musician notable for being the vocalist for the American bands Thorr's Hammer and Khlyst. She works as a professional biologist and holds a Ph.D. in cell physiology.
Tim Wyskida is an American drummer, most recognized for his work in the bands Khanate and Blind Idiot God.
Clean Hands Go Foul is the fourth album by American drone metal band Khanate. It was released in May 2009 on Hydra Head Records.
Seldon Hunt (born 1969, in Melbourne and migrated to New York in 2006, is an artist best known for his photography and his graphic artwork for rock musicians.
Gnaw is a New York City noise band founded in 2006 by Alan Dubin, Carter Thornton, Jun Mizumachi and drummer Jamie Sykes. Guitarist/sound designer Brian Beatrice and drummer Eric Neuser later joined the group. The current lineup consists of Dubin, Thornton, Brian Beatrice, Dana Schechter, Robin Fowler, and Adam Morosky. Founding member Mizumachi, while no longer touring, is still a contributing member.
The discography of Sunn O))), an American drone metal band, consists of nine studio albums, three collaborative albums, six EPs, four demos, one remix album, eight official live albums, one box set compilation, two stand-alone singles and three compilation contributions.
