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[quote name='BottomEndian' post='915718' date='Aug 5 2010, 10:53 AM']Hell yes. I saw Sunn O))) in Gateshead last December (playing stuff from Monoliths & Dimensions), and it was the most indescribably intense experience of my musical life. It was like being crushed with sound. Apparently they peaked around 150dB in a reasonably small room. Everything was physically shuddering. Just awesome.[/quote] Yeah, I saw them in Glasgow on the same tour (with Bong, from your neck of the woods, supporting). The venue slowly filled with smoke beforehand until we could see almost nothing, and we were then subjected to an intense barrage of sound. I also saw them at Primavera doing the Grimmrobe Demos last summer, but what with it being a festival and my mates not being too into it, I only stuck around for a bit of it. As I said to a mate I ran into on the way out - you can pretty much extrapolate the rest. I managed to snap this photo, which I think pretty much sums it up: [url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22751654@N00/3780851727/"][/url]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='915459' date='Aug 4 2010, 10:49 PM'] [/quote] The cover art for that album is great! (The album's pretty damn good too, although like others have said, it's slightly less than the sum of its parts).

[quote name='umph' post='915377' date='Aug 4 2010, 09:14 PM']suprised no one has mentioned the wizard or sabbath yet![/quote] Ah, g'wan then, have some doom from back when it was measured in Imperial units named after the man who discovered it (the Iommi) instead of this new-fangled metric stuff (is the SI unit of Doom the Om? The O'Malley? I wasn't paying attention in class):

[quote name='neepheid' post='914639' date='Aug 4 2010, 09:59 AM']If by bass solo you mean "repeat the main riff hoping and praying not to muck it up until the rest of the band kick back in again" then yeah [/quote] My first number at my first gig was Town Called Malice by The Jam, which has a breakdown section of the variety descibed above. I managed it without hitting any bum notes, however it had all the feel and groove of a drunk sloth on a particularly shaky branch. I just remember that it was much more terrifying playing in front of people in the rehearsal room, and I was much too warm, and I couldn't hear things as well as in the rehearsal room, and I couldn't move my fingers very easily. Or my arms. Or my legs. I pretty much stayed rooted to the spot. It was at Strathclyde Uni union, and I was using my "Legend" Jazz copy through someone else's amp. During the day, it was reported that Rod Hull had died. The singer dedicated our cover of Freddie King's "Going Down" to him, which wasn't the most sensitive of things to do (we got booed).

Back to the shoegazing indie rock It's not exactly Burning Witch, but this is my favourite Asva track: Today, I'm mostly blasting some shamelessly Shabbath-shaped shtoner shludge shounds, courtesy of Churh of Misery. Saw them supporting Cathederal a few months ago, and they were the band of the night:

Yay! A topic I can talk about! (I've been lurking for ages). Not strictly doom, but definitely trancendental - I've been playing the new Zoroaster album a lot recently - it sounds a lot like this: