History Music / SunnO

* SofterAndSlowerCover: They've covered "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Music/{{Metallica}} and "Cursed Realms of the Winterdemons" by Music/{{Immortal}}. They're defintely ''slower'', at least.

The band's genre is known as "drone doom", a subgenre of DoomMetal that fuses the genre with ambient, drone and minimalist music akin to Music/BrianEno. Their songs are extremely long, slow, and heavy, and use droning guitars accompanied by feedback and other sound effects to create their soundscapes. There is very little drumming (and a lack of any discernible beat, in fact), although their collaborative album with Japanese band Music/{{Boris}} features drumming from the band's drummer Atsuo. When performing live, the band members wear "grim robes", fill the air with fog, and play at an ''extremely'' high volume.[[note]]We mean it. Bring earplugs. It doesn't matter how much your friends insult you for it; at least you'll be able to hear your friends. It's worth noting that some venues have expressed concern about hosting Sunn O))) shows not out of fear of rowdy crowds but out of fear of incurring ''structural damage'' from the band's insanely powerful bass frequencies! [[/note]]

Their genre is known as "drone doom", a subgenre of DoomMetal that fuses the genre with ambient, drone and minimalist music, akin to Music/BrianEno. Their songs are extremely long, slow, and heavy, and use droning guitars accompanied by feedback and other sound effects to create their soundscapes. There is very little drumming (and a lack of any discernible beat, in fact), although their collaborative album with Japanese band Music/{{Boris}} features drumming from the band's drummer Atsuo. When performing live, the band members wear "grim robes", fill the air with fog, and play at an ''extremely'' high volume.[[note]]We mean it. Bring earplugs. It doesn't matter how much your friends insult you for it; at least you'll be able to hear your friends. It's worth noting that some venues have expressed concern about hosting Sunn O))) shows not out of fear of rowdy crowds but out of fear of incurring ''structural damage'' from the band's insanely powerful bass frequencies! [[/note]]

* PunnyName: The name of the band itself. It's a reference to both Sunn amplifiers and the band Earth.

* ShoutOut: Stephen O'Malley has [[WordOfGod stated]] that the name was also chosen as a play on the name of the band Earth, the band that created drone-doom, whom Sunn O))) were formed as a tribute to. This is also the rationale behind the song titles of "Defeating: Earth's Gravity" and "Dylan Carlson" (the latter is the founding member of Earth).

* TakeThat: The full title of "FWTBT" is "FWTBT (I Dream of [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars Ulrich]] Being Thrown Through the Bus Window Instead of My Mystikal Master Kliff Burton)".

* TakeThat: The full title of "FWTBT" is [[LongTitle "FWTBT (I Dream of]] [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars Ulrich Being Thrown Through the Bus Window Instead of My Mystikal Master Kliff Burton)".]]

* BadassBaritone: Even when he's not growling, Attila Csihar still has a very deep voice, as can be heard on "Aghartha" and "Decay 2 (Nihil's Maw)"

* WidgetSeries: A ''very'' weird American thing, though they've been an international act for a while now.

* DreamTeam: They're very good at picking collaborators. Examples include Music/{{Merzbow}}, Music/{{Leviathan}}, Music/NurseWithWound, Music/{{Boris}}, Music/ScottWalker, Music/{{Ulver}}, and Music/SteveAlbini, and that's just the start of it.

Their genre is known as "drone doom", a subgenre of DoomMetal that fuses the genre with ambient, drone and minimalist music, akin to Music/BrianEno. Their songs are extremely long, slow, and heavy, and use droning guitars accompanied by feedback and other sound effects to create their soundscapes. There is very little drumming (and a lack of any discernible beat, in fact), although their collaborative album with Japanese band Music/{{Boris}} features drumming from the band's drummer Atsuo. When performing live, the band members wear "grim robes", fill the air with fog, and play at an ''extremely'' high volume.[[note]]We mean it. Bring earplugs. It doesn't matter how much your friends insult you for it; at least you'll be able to hear your friends.[[/note]]

* BlackSpeech: Almost all of Attila's vocals end up sounding like this, especially when he's singing in Hungarian.

* BilingualBonus: They sometimes have lyrics in foreign languages, particularly Norwegian and Hungarian (the native languages of vocalists Runhild Gammelsæter and Attila Csihar, respectively). Every single song on the Gravetemple record ''Impassable Fears'' is written in Hungarian, for instance. They also do this with other releases, like the Russian live record ''НЕЖИТЬ: Живьём в России'' (roughly translates to ''UNDEAD: Live in Russia'').