Sunna (band)

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Sunna
Origin Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Genres Hard rock, industrial rock
Years active1998–present
Labels Astralwerks, Virgin Records 2000–2002

Sunna are a hard rock and industrial rock [1] band from Bristol, England. They released their third album, After the Third Pin on 3 October 2011.

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History

The band toured with VAST and A Perfect Circle in 2000, [2] as well as The Smashing Pumpkins on their final European tour. [3] They released their debut album One Minute Science on Massive Attack's Melankolic label that year, along with the singles "O.D" and "Power Struggle". The latter single appeared in the movie Hollow Man . [4] The third single from One Minute Science, "I'm Not Trading", was released in early 2001.

Drummer Richie Mills left the band in spring of 2001; he would have been replaced by Mark Richardson of Skunk Anansie, but Richardson joined Feeder instead following the death of that band's drummer Jon Lee.[ citation needed ]

Jon Harris released their second album, Two Minute Terror , in October 2009.

On 10 January 2011, Sunna announced a new album, titled After the Third Pin was in the works, and was scheduled to be released October.The album was released on 6 October 2011.

The fourth album 4 Global Mourning was released on 27 November 2013; after a phase of crowd funding. [5]

Members

Current members
Past members

Discography

AlbumDateChart position
One Minute Science 15 August 2000151
Two Minute Terror 6 October 2009
After the Third Pin 6 October 2011
4 Global Mourning 27 November 2013

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