sunn 0))) Boris Altar Southern Lord 3LP Box. RARE OOP

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sunn 0))) / Boris - Altar (Southern Lord - UK) 3xLP. Excellent condition. OOP.
The “Altar” album is NOT a split album. “Altar” is a collaboration album between sunn 0))) and boris that is a result of both bands conceptualizing, writing and recording the album together as one entity. Both groups have stepped outside their previous sounds and created a wholly unique album that stands on its own unique ground. There are elements of each groups trademark sound within the album but true to each groups progressive and experimental aspects, “Altar” moves into a completely new dimension.
"Okay vinyl nerds, the wait is finally over. The ultimate sludge doom matchup, East meets West, is now, in fact, available on vinyl!!! An insanely deluxe elaborate triple lp in an impossibly oversized sleeve, gorgeous matte finish, with gloss varnish filigree. Inside, a deluxe oversized 12" booklet of color photos, liner notes by Soundgarden's Kim Thayil, each of the three lps pressed on swirled green vinyl, housed black sleeves, printed in glossy black ink with various symbols. The whole thing is pretty mindblowing. Much like the music inside. PLUS!!! This deluxe version includes the 28 minute bonus track which was originally included as a bonus disc with the first few thousand cds, the amazing three way team up "Her Lips Were Wet With Venom" which adds Earth to the already stellar SUNNO))) / Boris mix. Phew!! These triple lps are limited to 2000 copies, we got a bunch, but odds are they will be gone in no time! And while the sticker on the front claims that there is a libretto included, it is actually referring to the picture book, so don't freak out when you can't find the 'libretto'... Anyway, here's what we had to say about the music: It was inevitable really. The Japanese masters of Orange Amp-powered drone-sludge and the robed priests of low end doom. How could it not happen? In fact, if you remember the 2005 April Fool's AQ list, we actually jokingly predicted this epochal event! Although in our version it also included Earth, each band playing one note of the world's heaviest E chord. The real question was never IF it would happen, it was when. And how. Especially how. C'mon, how on earth can you fit that many amps in a recording studio. They must have used an airplane hanger, either that or they filled a high school gymnasium with Sunn and Orange stacks and microphones, and actually played in an entirely different room. Regardless, it happened, and it sounds as good as you might imagine. Both bands completely compliment each other. SUNNO))), whose slow motion riffing borders on pure ambience, is given a serious propulsive shove, with more structured riffing and the addition of DRUMS!!! Boris get dragged back into the gloriously glacial tarpit of their older records, discarding their current garage rock rrrooooaaar for that classic slow motion doom trudge. However you look at it, it's basically the best record either band has put out. It's like an EVEN heavier SUNNO))), with bigger riffs and pulverizing doom rock drums, and of course wailing psychedelic leads. For Boris, they've taken their blown out grooves and dipped them in tar, added a million more pounds of guitar firepower and made the best Boris record since Flood. But it's not all pulverizing doom riffage. There's plenty of dark droning ambience too. Huge stretches of swirling guitar rumble, dreamy swaths of wispy steel string shimmer. murky and haunting, processed vocals and minor key melodies swimming in a black sea of echoey ambient guitars and sizzling cymbal shimmer. The strangest track is probably "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)", sort of the Boris / SUNNO))) version of a torch song, with FX smeared piano, strange buried rhythms, and hushed vocals, like a doom metal Mazzy Star. The closer "Bloodswamp" is 14 minutes of churning downtuned guitars and shimmering Sunroof! like ambience. No riffs really, or if they are there, they're stretched into thick streaks of black fuzz. A furiously epic coda to a fucking amazing record. The first 2000 copies of the Altar lp include the bonus track "Her Lips Were Wet With Venom", a single 28 minute epic guest starring Dylan Carlson from Earth! Before we go any further... are you thinking what we're thinking... April Fool's? SUNNO))) and Boris And Earth!!! And I bet you at least some of the bonus track is in E!! Boy, did we call it. And actually Atsuo from Boris confided in a friend of AQ that indeed, part of the reason they got Dylan to guest was because of that April Fool's review! How cool is that?!? Anyway, the bonus track is a monstrous wall of churning guitars, with occasional howled almost death metal vocals buried way down in the mix, and languorous Earth Hex-like twang guitar draped lazily above a churning blackhole ambience. So good. Besides Dylan Carlson of Earth, there are lots of other guest performers including Jesse Sykes, Joe Preston from Thrones (also ex-Melvins, ex-Earth), Kim Thayil from Soundgarden (aha) and Rex Ritter from Jessamine. " -- AQR
Shipping: Records will be shipped in 12x12 Corrugated LP Mailers. Each LP will be sandwiched between 12x12 corrugated pads and wrapped in bubble wrap. The paper sleeves will be taken out of the LP jacket, and the jacket and record will both inserted inside the plastic sleeve.