Episode 137: Brute Force: on Sunn O)))'s 'Life Metal'
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What Evil Dead 2 is to the Baroque, Sunn O))) is to Brutalism. Or more like: if the likening of Evil Dead 2 to the Baroque felt like a stretch in episode 136, the brutalist bona fides of Sunn O)))\'s drone metal are incontestable. In this episode, their 2019 masterpiece Life Metal frames a conversation touching on 20th-century avant garde music, the tactility of sound, the metaphysics of the Kickass Riff, Aztec aesthetics, the virtues of impermanence, and of course, the sublime beauty of brutalist buildings.
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REFERENCES
\\n\\nSunn O))), Life Metal
\\nTheatre of Eternal Music, musical group
\\nDaniel Albright, Panaesthetics
\\nBrian Eno, Imaginary Landscapes
\\nJohn Wray, \\u201cHeady Metal\\u201d
\\nNyarlathotep, Lovecraft character
\\nByung-Hul Chan, The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
\\nFred Wilcox (dir.), Forbidden Planet
\\nH. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
\\nGodfrey Reggio (dir.), [Koyaanisquatsi](imdb.com/title/tt0085809/)