Sunn 0)))
Black 1

Saturday afternoon… it's pouring rain outside… it's dark… lightning, thunder, darkness enveloping everything and everyone… and it's only half-past four in the afternoon!!! Suddenly, a spring snaps in my head, desperately desiring some CD that could act as the soundtrack to what was happening outside the window… (I wanted something dark and scary that would make my hair stand on end…). THE MADNESS BEGINS!!!! (not having anything with such potential to satisfy my needs at that moment…). …I think: THE LATEST ONE FROM SUNN 0))) (a terrifying creature created by two sick minds like STEPHEN O’MALLEY-khanate, burning witch… and GREG ANDERSON-goatsnake, also mr. southern lord) HAS BEEN OUT FOR A WHILE. AND WHAT BETTER TO FULLY SATISFY MY NEEDS?? Without thinking twice, I take my nice 20 euros (my grandmother docet) and head to my trusted store (40 km from my village, where there isn't even a trace of a CD store…); upon arrival, I discover, with no little surprise, that the great Dario, already knowing my tastes, had set aside a copy for me, waiting for the moment I would ask him for it (he was sure). Thanking him after purchasing it, I prepare to return to my humble abode… It's already 7… it's still pouring rain outside… Being completely soaked, I decide to take a nice hot shower while listening to the new acquisition… The water is ready… the CD is in the stereo… I press play and enter the tub… it's still pouring outside and the music begins to tear through the room; the first vibrations shatter the warm atmosphere of the room, freezing everything… I AM FROZEN IN PLACE… The water suddenly turns icy (although it was boiling just a few minutes before… I CLOSE MY EYES!!!, I never would have done it, I BEGIN TO ENTER THE NIGHTMARE CALLED "BLACK 1"!! I feel someone in the room (it wasn't a family member spying on me, no…); I'm not alone (it was as if the music took shape)… I had hallucinations (maybe I was dreaming); I see eyes staring at me everywhere, scrutinizing me… I feel shadows brushing against my skin, chilling my blood… I OPEN MY EYES!!!!! DAMN!!! I see my mother, like a madwoman, knocking and yelling at me "what happened to you?"… after assuring her that I was still alive, I discover I had been in the tub for almost an hour (without washing n.d.r.)!!! I hadn't realized it, but I had fallen into a state of trance that I couldn't even explain myself… (pazziescu). The music of these lunatics is capable of this and more!! A music that transcends all genres and can be synthesized as a hybrid between experimental ambient and cosmic drone-evil sludge so dear to yours truly!! Everything is dark in their proposal, everything is frightening… it enchants you, kidnaps you until it makes you its slave to make you live on your skin the sensation of pure terror it wants to express. No drums: only lowered guitars, deep basses, bells, lysergic synths, and voices (those of the guests WREST and MALEFIC – the latter singing locked in a coffin in "bathory erzsebet") that crawl slowly and agonizingly over the sonic magma developed within this work. The intent, according to the two composers, was to take the darkness and malice of a genre like black metal to a higher level of abstraction, stripping it of everything physical, leaving it naked with only its soul!! THEY'VE SUCCEEDED!!! What comes out is music abstract, minimal, immensely heavy, intensely emotional but above all intensely SPIRITUAL AND RITUAL BEYOND BELIEF!! Enter this work… Enter this nightmare...