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SUNN O)))

The Roundhouse, London, October 28

Music for the masses! Elemental drone-rockers host another compelling ceremony

FISTS punch the air as the amps start their infernal groan and Sunn O))) take to a stage wreathed in dry ice and lit in blue and red. Or do they?

At first it’s difficult to see anything in the gloom. Then we spy cowled figures – first two, then later three, four, five, moving with the studied grace of butoh dancers. Sunn O)))’s sense of epic rock theatre has always guided their live performances,

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