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Music
Sunn O)))

When

Thursday July 2, 2009 (9:30pm)

Where
The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, 773.276.3600) Directions: We are located at the corner of Western and Cortez in Chicago, three blocks south of Division and just north of Augusta. The Empty Bottle is most easily accessible from Interstate 90/94 (The Kennedy Expressway). More options here: http://emptybottle.com
Price
$15
Details
http://emptybottle.com/calendar.php
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Drone-metal veterans Sunn 0))) hit a new apex with May's Monoliths and Dimensions, seamlessly weaving elements of modern compositional and jazz into their ambient doom mega-riffs. But as always, their métier is the live show — fog machine, druid robes, and all. Tonight, the duo is supported by Steve Moore (Earth) on keys and horns and black-metal icon Attila Csihar (Mayhem), casting "invocations." Accommodating Monolith's dense, guest-heavy instrumentation to a four-piece means some sacrifice. Just not in the riffs, of course — those seismic, ultra-sludgy downstrokes, transcendent as they are pummeling.

Stephen Gossett