Sunn O))) have announced that their latest album “Life Metal” will receive a special independent retailer released on April 13th as part of this year’s ‘Record Store Day‘. In celebration of the event, the album will be out on CD and vinyl in U.S. independent retailers and on vinyl in the UK and Europe. An official April 26th release date for the album will follow via traditional retailers, including digital formats.
The album is the band’s first in four years and was recorded with producer Steve Albini (Neurosis, Nirvana) this past July. Another new album titled “Pyroclasts” was also tracked during those sessions and is tentatively expected to hit stores this fall with more details to come.
Furthermore, the group have also announced two album listening events that are set to take place in Paris and London. The first will be he held March 31st at Gaîte Lyrique in Paris, FRA (RSVP here) with the second to be held at The Institute Of Life in Hackney, London on April 09th (RSVP here). The band commented of those events:
“With great pleasure we present a few special public deep listening sessions of our forthcoming album Life Metal. Our wish and intention are to offer the astounding presence, detail and color of this recording on great PA systems in a public situation as an introduction.
Part of the joy of producing and mastering this album in the studio was that we were fortunate to be able to listen on the perfect high fidelity playback situations for the record, top precise studio sound guided by the best ears in the business. With these public listening sessions we hope to get a step closer to that experience of being inside the studio for you all at these special events, a few weeks before the album is unleashed upon the world.”
The band’s current touring schedule runs as follows:
02/28 Frankfurt, GER – Mousonturm
03/01 Graz, AUT – Orpheum
03/02 Prague, CZE – Divadlo Archa
03/03 Hamburg, GER – Kampnagel
03/04 Amsterdam, NET – Paradiso
03/06 Lyon, GRA – L’Epicerie Moderne
03/07 Nancy, FRA – L’Autre Canal
03/08 Dijon, FRA – La Vapeur
03/09 Rouen, FRA – QuasaRits Day
03/11 Tours, FRA – Le Temps Machine
03/12 Nantes, FRA – Stereolux
03/13 La Rochelle, FRA – La Sierene
03/14 Bordeaux, FRA – Le Rocher de Palmer
04/17 Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom
04/18 Detroit, MI – Masonic
04/19 Chicago, IL – Rockefeller Chapel
04/20 Pelham, TN – The Caverns
04/22 Chicago, IL – Rockefeller Chapel
04/24 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
04/25 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
04/26 New Haven, CT – College Street
04/28 Washington, DC – The Howard
