As BORIS wrap up their latest month-long North American tour with two California shows this week, they’re also prepare to join forces with several allies for their upcoming live work with ALTAR and BXI performances scheduled in New York.

First up, ALTAR (comprised of SUNN 0))) and BORIS as one group) will perform at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Monticello, New York alongside Sleep, Iggy & The Stooges, Sonic Youth and countless more in a massive outdoor space. Two days later ALTAR will make another appearance, this time alongside the first official performance of BXI (BORIS and Ian Astbury of The Cult), which will all go down at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, which has been inarguably dubbed “the loudest room in NYC,” and presented by All Tomorrow’s Parties and The Blackened Music Series.

The debut release from BXI is a 4-song self-titled EP, which was released by Southern Lord Recordings on August 17th. The EP is quickly surprising fans of both The Cult and BORIS, as well as journalists across the globe, and has listeners taking this new collaboration quite seriously, making this official first concert together an exceptionally special performance for the unit.

BORIS / ALTAR / BXI Live Performances:

BORIS
8/26/2010 Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA w/ Red Sparowes, Helms Alee
8/27/2010 El Rey – Los Angeles, CA w/ Red Sparowes, Helms Alee
8/28/2010 The Glass House – Pomona, CA w/ Red Sparowes, Helms Alee

ALTAR
9/05/2010 ATP Fest – Monticello, NY w/ Sleep, The Stooges, Sonic Youth, more

ALTAR + BXI
9/07/2010 Brooklyn Masonic Temple – Brooklyn, NY w/ Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter

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Roadburn festival is thrilled to unveil the curator for the 2011 edition of Roadburn: Sunn O))). The band, to be specific Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley, has agreed to curate our festival on Friday, April 15th, 2011 and host a special event.

As curator, Sunn O))) will personally select the bands that will play during their special event as well as perform a headline show. Sunn O))) will be Roadburn’s fourth curator, following David Tibet in 2008, Neurosis in 2009 and Triptykon’s Tom Gabriel Warrior at this year’s festival.

Right now, Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley are gearing up for two major Sunn O))) events in September: performing Altar with Boris at ATP New York and Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple, but you can expect to hear from them in the future with respect to their thoughts on the 2011 Roadburn festival and Sunn O)))’s performance.

We are overjoyed to join forces with Sunn O))) for the upcoming Roadburn festival. Their metal-based drone experimentations have proved groundbreaking and hugely influential for an entire new generation of musicians practicing the art of avant-garde metal, drone, post rock and psychedelica. Sunn O))) is also widely acclaimed for their eclectic collaborations with everyone from musicians Attila Csihar, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Boris, Steven Stapleton, Justin Broadrick, Oren Ambarchi, Ulver, Joe Preston, John Wiese, and Julian Cope to filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and visual artist Banks Violette.

Greg Anderson, who is also Goatsnake’s songsmith and the entrepreneur behind Southern Lord Records, and Stephen O’Malley, a prolific improviser and composer who is well-known for being involved in Burning Witch, KHANATE, KTL and DACM/Gisèle Vienne theatre-works, have performed in different guises during various Roadburn festivals over the years, which is exactly why we felt they would be the ideal curators. Both of them consistently push the envelope musically, and one of our steadfast goals has been to make Roadburn a festival that explores the cutting edge while celebrating the familiar, too. With that in mind, we could think of no better spiritual guide for 2011 than Sunn O))).

We are truly looking forward to the new ideas and visions that the crossover drone duo will bring to the festival next year. When asked to sum up Roadburn in one word, “progressive” would be a fitting choice. Evolving and improving are part of this. The festival is a tribute to the open mindedness of its bands, curators and audience. The joy comes from expanding musical horizons, and with Sunn O))) acting as our curator we’ll definitely be in for some artistic surprises.

Roadburn Festival 2011, including Sunn O)))’s special event, will run for three days from Thursday, April 14 to Saturday, April 16 at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an additional afterburner event on Sunday, April 17, 2011.

All Tomorrow’s Parties and The Blackened Music Series Presents
SUNN O))) and BORIS Present ALTAR
with special guests
BXI
JESSE SYKES AND THE SWEET HEREAFTER

September 7 2010
The Brooklyn Masonic Temple
317 Clermont Avenue at Lafayette
The Loudest Room in New York

Buy tickets here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=2519615

ALTAR is a collaboration between Sunn 0))) and Boris that is a result of both bands conceptualizing, writing and recording together as one entity. There are elements of each group’s trademark sound but true to each group’s progressive and experimental aspects, ALTAR moves into a completely new dimension. This is the first NYC performance of ALTAR.

BXI is the collaboration between Boris and Ian Astbury. Southern Lord will release the debut recordings by this group in August 2010. This finely-crafted four-song release, simply entitled BXI, was tracked and mixed in Tokyo in late April. Astburys’ iconic vocals are a perfect match for Boris’s raw and emotive songwriting style. This is the first U.S. performance of BXI.

Listen closely to Jesse Sykes’s stark descriptions of isolation, sometimes-swaggering toughness, fragile human emotion, and the possibilities of love, and you’ll hear something that perfectly, tenderly, and surprisingly captures the feel of the 21st century so far.

this photo of the Lord and Attila has absolutely nothing to do with these merch items but its a cool photo!

Over the last year or so our caves have accumulated quite a few shirts, vinyls, cds etc.. from after tours have finished. We finally have got around to making these items available. They will be up till they are gone.

go here:
http://sunn.southernlord.com/
or
http://www.southernlord.com/store.php

SUNN O))) & BORIS To Perform As ALTAR At ATP New York 2010

Southern Lord Recording Artists SUNN O))) and BORIS will unite to perform as ALTAR — as heard on their 2006 Altar full-length — at the third annual All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in Monticello, New York.

A varied barrage of of acts are confirmed to perform at this outdoor extravaganza in addition to ALTAR, including Iggy & The Stooges [performing Raw Power], Sleep [performing Holy Mountain], Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Tortise, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Raekwon, Explosions In The Sky and more. ALTAR’s performance shall take the headlining slot for Sunday, September 5th, the full day curated by legendary filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who included selections from the Altar album and other Southern Lord artists in his 2009 film The Limits of Control.

For the full ATP 2010 lineup and other info on the festival check the Southern Lord Blog: http://blog.southernlord.com/?p=260 or ATP’s official site: http://www.atpfestival.com.

Southern Lord and affiliated brethren have joined forces with a few kick ass shirt companies to bring you some grimm cloth.
Our Czech friends at Day After have launched a small merch company… you can buy some new and archival SAINT VITUS, OM, GOATSNAKE, EARTH SUNN O))), KHANATE and BURNING WITCH designs online directly from them here. They are also selling off some rare left over tour designs from the 2010 Monoliths & Dimensions UK & EU if you’ve been looking for one of those.

http://www.dayafterprints.com/shop/

…I GUESS there is no is accounting for taste! Absolute maniacal mad man Jason Ellis decided that the song: “Hunting and Gathering” by sunn 0))) (from the Monoliths and Dimensions) album was the heaviest song ever! I did a very comical interview on his show: http://www.radiofaction.com/
I even took calls from listeners!

here is the visual aggression.
Cry now, cry later…

the Lord

Photo by Alex Woodward http://www.crimsonglow.co.uk/

SUNN O)))
Monoliths & Dimensions
EU mk 2 2010

SUNN O))) is proud to present our second European tour supporting Monoliths & Dimensions. We return to Scandinavia and Portugal for the first time since 2006, and do an extended jaunt in both France and Spain. The lineup on stage will be Anderson & O’Malley, Attila Csihar and Steve Moore (Stebmo)…. and O))) will also operate as a duo performing the Shoshin/Grimmrobe demos in their entirety in for 2 special concerts, in Stockholm and Oslo, supported by VOV (Attila Csihar solo). Salt Lake Cities brutal duo will support the majority of the tour, and we are pleased to be playing together with Pharaoh Overlord in Helsinki, and Maja S.K. Ratkje & Lasse Marhaug in Oslo. Prepare for the most powerful, refined and mutated version to date.

Tue 19/1 Fin Helsinki Tavastia (w/ Pharoah Overlord)
Wed 20/1 Se Stockholm Fylkingen (Shoshin/Grimmrobes duo w/ VOV)
Thu 21/1 No Oslo Storsalen (w/ Maja S.K. Ratkje / Lasse Marhaug)
Fri 22/1 No Oslo Klubben (Shoshin/Grimmrobes duo w/ VOV)
Sun 24/1 Dk Copenhagen Vega (w/ Eagle Twin)
Mon 25/1 De Bielefeld Forum (w/ Eagle Twin)
Tue 26/1 Nl Amsterdam Paradiso (w/ Eagle Twin)
Wed 27/1 Fr Lille Aeronef (w/ Eagle Twin)
Fri 29/1 Fr Reims La Cartonnerie (w/ Eagle Twin, Him & Ikuko Harada)
Sat 30/1 Fr Poitiers Le Confort Moderne (w/ Eagle Twin)
Mon 1/2 Es Vigo Festival Sinsal (w/ Eagle Twin)
Tue 2/2 Pt Lisbon ZDB @ LX Factory (w/ Eagle Twin)
Wed 3/2 Es Madrid Sala Caracol (w/ Eagle Twin)
Thu 4/2 Es Barcelona Sala Apolo (w/ Eagle Twin)
Sat 6/2 Fr Paris Point Ephemere (w/ Eagle Twin)

REPRESS FINALLY AVAILBLE NOW!

**After a fucking eternity the second press of the “Oracle” LP by sunn 0))) is finally available! 180 gram black vinyl. New lacquer cut by Bob Weston (Shellac). This new version has a bit more clarity and depth than previous pressings. We have two colors available: Clear and Blue. The blue vinyl copies come with a 18×24″ Oracle poster. You can purchase the Oracle lp and Oracle shirt for a discounted package price. LP+shirt packages come with the Blue vinyl version. The first 150 orders will receive a single cd version of “Oracle”. Sorry for the delay and heres to hoping it kicks your ass!

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