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NEWS : WED, FEB 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Listen To the New SUNN O))) Track “Butch’s Guns”

SUNN O))) share the new track “Butch’s Guns,” another standout from the band’s forthcoming eponymous album. The new song is available today on all streaming services.
 
Also today, SUNN O))) is announcing new summer headlining shows in the EU and UK beginning Tuesday, June 23rd in Zurich, CH at Rote Fabrik and currently running through Monday, July 6th + Tuesday, July 7th in Berlin, DE for a two-night stand at Silent Green Bentonhalle. The tour will include stops in Belgium (Antwerp)the Netherlands (Amsterdam)Germany (Köln), and the UK (Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, and London). Additional live dates to be announced soon.


 
Tickets for these June and July shows go on sale Friday, February 20th at 10 am CET. Please find a current list of dates below.
 
SUNN O))) recently added shows to the band’s upcoming 2026 North American headline tour in support of the album. The tour will now include stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, Denver, Boise, Seattle, and Portland (OR). Tickets for the shows below are on sale now.
 
North America, March/April 2026
Mon. Mar. 30 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom
Tue. Mar. 31 - Los Angeles, CA - The United Theater on Broadway
Wed. Apr. 01 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
Fri. Apr. 03 - Dallas, TX - Trees Lounge
Sat. Apr. 04 - Austin, TX - Emo’s
Sun. Apr. 05 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
Mon. Apr. 06 -  New Orleans, LA - Civic Theatre
Tue. Apr. 07  - Atlanta, GA - The Goat Farm
Thu. Apr. 09 -  Columbus, OH - The Bluestone
Fri. Apr. 10 - Washington, DC - The Lincoln Theatre
Sat.  Apr. 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Sun. Apr. 12 - New York, NY - The Town Hall
Mon. Apr. 13 - Montreal, QC - Le National
Tue. Apr. 14 - Toronto, ON - 131 McCormack
Thu. Apr. 16 - Chicago, IL - Salt Shed
Sat. Apr. 18 -  Iowa City, IA - Englert Theatre
Sun. Apr. 19 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
Mon. Apr. 20 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
Wed. Apr. 22 - Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club
Fri. Apr. 24 - Seattle, WA - Showbox (So Do)
Sat. Apr. 25 - Portland, OR - Roseland
 
UK/EU, June/July 2026 - Just Announced
Tue. Jun. 23 - Zurich, CH - Rote Fabrik
Wed. Jun. 24 - Antwerp, BE - Trix
Thu. Jun. 25 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso
Fri. Jun. 26 - Koln, DE - Essigfabrik
Sun. Jun. 28 - Bristol, UK - Prospect Building
Mon. Jun.  29 - Brighton, UK - Corn Exchange
Tue. Jun. 30 - Liverpool, UK - The Dome
Wed. Jul. 01 - Leeds, UK -  Project House Leeds
Thu. Jul. 02 - Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute 
Fri. Jul. 03 - London, UK - Troxy
Mon. Jul. 06 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green Betonhalle
Tue. Jul. 07 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green Betonhalle

The album SUNN O))) will be released Friday, April 3rd, 2026, and is available for preorder now on CD/2xLP/all DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop. LP preorders through the North American Sub Pop Mega Mart will receive the limited Loser edition on opaque blue vinyl; preorders through Mega Mart Europe will receive the Loser Edition on oxblood vinyl (UK/EU) with reversed cover art. The Loser Editions will also be available at your local record store. And, while supplies last, two new T-shirts (long and short sleeve) and a baseball hat (US-only) are available.
 
SUNN O))) was co-produced & mixed by the band and Brad Wood (Hum, Tar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Liz Phair), and was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, January 2025.
 
Framing the album visually are two paintings by the late American artist Mark Rothko - one on the front cover and one on the back cover, with the art reversed for UK & European pressings. The CD and LP package also includes expansive liner notes by author Robert Macfarlane, whose 2025 novel Is a River Alive? is among the many sources of inspiration for the album. And, illustrations by French artist Elodie Lesourd are featured on the inner LP sleeves and accompanying album merch.



sunn O)))
S/T
 
Tracklisting:
1. XXANN
2. Does Anyone Hear Like Venom?
3. Butch’s Guns
4 Mindrolling
5. Everett Moses
6. Glory Black
 

Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : TUE, JAN 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Sub Pop To Release sunn O)))’s Self-Titled New Album Worldwide On Friday, April 3rd, 2026

On Friday, April 3rd, 2026, sunn O))) will release their eponymously titled first full-length album for Sub Pop.
 
sunn O))) was co-produced & mixed by the band and Brad Wood (Hum, Tar, Sunny Day Real Estate, Liz Phair), and was recorded at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, January 2025You can now listen to the album’s closing track, “Glory Black.”
 
sunn O))) is available for preorder on CD/2xLP/all DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop. LP preorders through the North American Sub Pop Mega Mart will receive the limited Loser edition on opaque blue vinyl; preorders through Mega Mart Europe will receive the Loser Edition on oxblood vinyl (UK/EU) with reversed cover art. The Loser Editions will also be available at your local record store. There are also two new T-shirts (long and short sleeve) and a baseball hat available (US-only) (All vinyl colors and album merch available while stock lasts!).
 
Framing the album visually are two paintings by the late American artist Mark Rothko - one on the front cover and one on the back cover, with the art reversed for UK & European pressings. The CD and LP package also includes expansive liner notes by author Robert Macfarlane, whose 2025 novel Is a River Alive? is among the many sources of inspiration for the album. And, illustrations by French artist Elodie Lesourd are also featured on the inner LP sleeves and accompanying album merch.

sunn O))) recently sat for an interview with The New York Times, who say of the new album: “The result — captured with exceptional vividness by Brad Wood…is a hyperdistilled version of its core aesthetic, in which snarling distortion and glinting feedback ooze from the speakers like the dense fog that fills the air at the band’s shows (See January 13th, 2026 feature).”


sunn O)) is also announcing new initial North American headlining shows for 2026 in support of the album. Additional incoming live dates will be announced soon.
 
Tickets for the below shows will go on sale to the general public on Friday, January 16th at 10 am (local).
 
Wed. Apr. 01 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
Sat. Apr. 04 - Austin, TX - Emo’s
Sun. Apr. 05 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
Mon. Apr. 06 -  New Orleans, LA - Civic Theatre
Tue. Apr. 07  - Atlanta, GA - The Goat Farm
Thu. Apr. 09 -  Columbus, OH - The Bluestone
Sat.  Apr. 11 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Mon. Apr. 13 - Montreal, QC - Le National
Tue. Apr. 14 - Toronto, ON - 131 McCormack
Thu. Apr. 16 - Chicago, IL - Salt Shed
Sat. Apr. 18 -  Iowa City, IA - Englert Theatre
Sun. Apr. 19 - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room



More on sunn O))):
For nearly 30 years, sunn O))) – Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson – have pushed the boundaries of heavy music, straddling the worlds of the avant-garde and rock to forge a style instantly recognisable as their own. Now, sunn O)))  return with their first album of new material since 2019’s acclaimed Pyroclasts. Their tenth album – their debut for Sub Pop – demonstrates the duo’s mastery of time and space, light and dark, and their willingness to evolve their unmistakable sound into bold new forms.

The eponymously titled sunn O))) was tracked at Bear Creek Studios, Woodinville, Washington with Brad Wood. This location proved crucial to the recording process. “The vast tracking room had big windows looking out on trees,” says O’Malley. “We could go hiking and be out in the woods, spend time outdoors. That became a big part of it.”
 
sunn O))) have long welcomed collaborators into their self-contained world: past work has featured, Attila Csihar (Mayhem), composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, multi-instrumentalist Steve Moore, polymath Mark Deutrom, Silkworm’s Tim Midyett and legendary singer-songwriter Scott Walker. But on this album O’Malley and Anderson found fresh possibilities in the primal territory of the duo format, performing all the instrumentation themselves. “What’s been happening with our performances over the last couple years with the two of us and no other collaborators has been really fresh and exciting,” says Anderson.
 
The compositions on sunn O))) are expansive and panoramic yet finely detailed, reflecting the arboreal setting in which they were recorded. Amidst howling feedback and glacial crunch, one finds surprisingly delicate moments: a field recording of water trickles beneath, piano interludes lend a hushed, solemn feel. All while the duo attains fresh heights of telepathic intensity as they shape music that breathes the bracing, earthy air of the Pacific Northwest.
 
Framing the album visually are two paintings by the late American artist Mark Rothko. Liner notes are by award-winning British writer Robert Macfarlane, famed for his works concerning landscape and the relationship between humanity and nature. Through the work of the band, Macfarlane, and Rothko, sound, word and visual combine into a fully immersive experience that is undeniably, completely sunn O))) (read full bio at Sub Pop).



sunn O)))
S/T
 
Tracklisting:
1. XXANN
2. Does Anyone Hear Like Venom?
3. Butch’s Guns
4 Mindrolling
5. Everett Moses
6. Glory Black

Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : TUE, OCT 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM

Sub Pop Signs sunn O))) For The Known Universe

Sub Pop has signed underground music powerhouse sunn O))) for the known universe.
 
sunn O))) and Sub Pop kick off this exciting partnership with three towering monoliths of low-end drone, delivered just in time for the dark weight of winter, in the form of Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential, out now on maxi 12” and digital. The maxi 12” is available in two limited vinyl variants: gold vinyl via Sub Pop online (US and UK/EU), and clear vinyl via sunn O))) online and on their current European tour. It is also available to stream at all DSPs. A widely available vinyl pressing will be released later in 2025. Limited-edition merch is also available from sunn O))) and Sub Pop.
 
sunn O))) describe the release thusly:
 
“Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential is sunn O)))’s premier work on the maxi 12” medium for Sub Pop.
 
“It consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis.
 
“sunn O))) gave extreme focus and care to each step and aspect of the recording, each tone and level of saturation, each gain stage and speaker, each arrangement and harmonic. The Pacific Northwest forest is our guide.
 
“‘Eternity’s Pillars’ is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence. ‘Raise the Chalice’ is named for a rallying cry often uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee throughout the mid-1990s. ‘Reverential’ equally pays respect and sends loud praise to those who came before us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and art being the materials of an antiphon.
 
“The front cover of the maxi 12” depicts the duo in the woods northeast of Seattle, through the lens of Charles Peterson.”
 
sunn O))) is performing in Europe now until November 6. See below for dates, and for ticket information please visit https://www.subpop.com/artists/sunn_o/tours.
 
Tue. Oct. 14 - Budapest, HU - Dürer Kert
Wed. Oct. 15 - Zagreb, HR - Kino SC
Fri. Oct. 17 - Sofia, BG - Club Joy Station
Sat. Oct. 18 - Thessaloniki, GR - Principal Club
Sun. Oct. 19 - Athens, GR – Gagarin 205
Tue. Oct. 21 - Skopje, MK - MKC
Wed. Oct. 22 - Belgrade, RS - Drugstore
Fri. Oct. 24 - Venice, IT - Venice Music Biennale
Sun. Oct. 26 - Torino, IT - Audiodrome
Mon. Oct. 27 - Munich, DE - Backstage Werk
Tue. Oct. 28 - Dresden, DE - Reithalle Strasse E
Thu. Oct. 30 - Lyon, FR - Nuits Sonores @ Le Sucre
Sat. Nov. 01 - Brussels, BE - Botanique Les Nuits Weekender
Mon. Nov. 03 - Aarhus, DK - Voxhall
Tue. Nov. 04 - Malmö, SE- Plan B
Wed. Nov. 05 - Hamburg, DE - Uebel & Gefährlich
Thu. Nov. 06 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who Festival


sunn O)))
Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential
 
Tracklisting:
1. Eternity’s Pillars (13:53)
2. Raise the Chalice (8:08)
3. Reverential (7:39)

Posted by Abbie Gobeli