fitterhappier Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 https://boomkat.com/products/fuck-fundamentalist-pigs Vinyl-only release, no digital, no CD. Individually hand-numbered edition of 700 copies Mastered and cut by Matt Colton, First 300 copies pressed on Green Vinyl. Copies numbered 401 upwards are coloured copies, one per person. F*ck Fundamentalist Pigs is Stephen O’Malley’s crushing, personal and intensely emotive retort to the fascists and fundamentalists who undermine his and our sense of personal liberty and freedom, particularly in the wake of attacks suffered by Charlie Hebdo magazine and the residents of Paris during late 2015, and the countless poor souls who’ve suffered in the Middle East, Kenya and North Africa. The material itself is just staggering - appearing a mere couple of weeks after Sunn O)))’s Kannon and once again displaying the intensity of O’Malley's immersive, uncompromising aesthetic, congealing tarriest waves of sub-harmonic drone and bad-handed chord changes into a glaring expression of sustained, paranoid tension and jawing, cathartic blows. The original recordings were made only days after the Charlie Hebdo attack at the start of 2015 and intended to be released under this title as the start of a trio of live recordings thru iDEAL in spring 2016. However, in light of the recent 13th November attacks, he felt it was only right to bring forward this release to “offer a small sense of solace in the time, even for the few hundred who hear them.” Here’s what O’Malley himself says about the album: “On 8 January 2015, the day following the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris (the city I have called home for the last 8 years), I started a week long tour of Norway. During this jaunt I faced the toxic reality daily of the horrible blossoming events intermittently via television. These sense of distance was both fortunate and painful … a fortunate sense of partial detachment both welcome and shameful. The Trondheim concert on 9 January (depicted here) happened on a particularly intense day in this timeline … and was personally a true example of the purging power of immersion in music. Through a web of emotions resolving distance, disintegration, the intense power of the moment and the brutal fundamentalist, cultural and psychological aspects behind … And today the recent horror of 13 November in Paris we experienced… to say many of these thoughts intensified is an understatement. The seemingly basic outrage of the title I chose for this album seemed more apt as a cry of liberty, a small, crude attempt at the spirit of Darkthrone’s timeless statement « With my art I am the fist. In the face of god. » . Like most of us I have also sometimes fallen for the constant baiting toward anger, outrage, paranoia and fear in the daily life, often but not always misdirected, but it is not debilitating by any means. It’s clear that as an experimental guitar player I have absolutely no political power (or even ability to articulate in those forms) but it’s important to take the opportunity to say « fuck you » in these situations. To the facist & fundamentalist movements. To the absurding of the worst sides of monotheistic belief systems. And not only the perpetrators behind these events but also on other sides including the reactive and opportunistic. Those with most to gain are the underlying authoritarians in our own societies who have opportunities to implement and increase their control even further for their gains. The « security » changes we face in fact may also result in yet further increase in the loss of liberty and freedom. The reactions aimed toward increased separation of cultures, xenophobia, nationalism, and especially racism are highly regrettable. I hope these recordings offer a small sense of solace in the time, even for the few hundred who hear them. I know they (and this text) are ultimately useless but … I am moved and shaken. I sincerely hope my point of view evolves out of what I have written above. For the concert on this record we had a massive backline with beautiful vintage Hiwatt amplifiers, and two PAs (including a Funktion One) in the small venue Blæst, the night hosted by Nymusikk. Immersion. Bliss. This record is actually the third part of a trilogy of live solo guitar records we intended to be released on iDEAL during spring 2016… but we were able to fast-forward due to the timeliness and by personal request. I recommend an interesting editorial, much more clearly expressed, around such topics : http://bit.ly/1lTNCR8 All profits on this release will be donated to the French Red Cross. Know that by purchasing this record you are in turn donating to that charity.” Stephen O’Malley - December 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 edit your title! FUCK FUNDAMENTALIST PIGS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bortx Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Ordered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mourning Wood Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Are dudes not aware that O'malley basically IS Sunn O))? Why would this thread get 3 responses while the Kannon thread went to 4 pages almost immediately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mourning Wood Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Anyway, according ta boomklat coloured vinyl is now sowd owwe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74R Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Are dudes not aware that O'malley basically IS Sunn O))? Why would this thread get 3 responses while the Kannon thread went to 4 pages almost immediately? Shallow fans that don't care because it isn't being released by Southern Lord. Same thing with the Drcarlsonalbion releases IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azvd Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I guess most of his side work doesn't go along with Sunn's sound and / or aesthetics. Actually, the music on most of it wouldn't appeal to people who enjoy Sunn O))) for the "heavy metal" side of their music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I'm not really familiar with his work outside of Sunn and KTL. I'm interested to hear it, but not enough to buy it blindly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74R Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I guess most of his side work doesn't go along with Sunn's sound and / or aesthetics. Actually, the music on most of it wouldn't appeal to people who enjoy Sunn O))) for the "heavy metal" side of their music. I kind of agree with you but not all of Sunn's releases are super heavy & people still eat them up. The cynical side of me thinks that if the Stephen O'Malley albums were released under the Sunn banner, people would buy the shit out of 'em. Despite some of them being super heavy, I think all the Sunn releases are experimental and/or ambient. I wouldn't classify any of them as heavy metal. I'm always interested in someone's solo work when they come from a band I really like because it usually shares some characteristics of their work in projects/bands I am familiar with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I kind of agree with you but not all of Sunn's releases are super heavy & people still eat them up. The cynical side of me thinks that if the Stephen O'Malley albums were released under the Sunn banner, people would buy the shit out of 'em. Despite some of them being super heavy, I think all the Sunn releases are experimental and/or ambient. I wouldn't classify any of them as heavy metal. I'm always interested in someone's solo work when they come from a band I really like because it usually shares some characteristics of their work in projects/bands I am familiar with. There are plenty of bands where that happens though. A Lee Ronaldo album won't get any attention on here, but Sonic Youth will get plenty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74R Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 There are plenty of bands where that happens though. A Lee Ronaldo album won't get any attention on here, but Sonic Youth will get plenty. Ya. It's definitely not exclusive to this one thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Ya. It's definitely not exclusive to this one thread. I think that's just how people are in general though, not just here. Most people don't give too much attention to side/solo projects. I'm guilty of it, some of it due to not caring and some of it due to not having time to check out everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74R Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 I think that's just how people are in general though, not just here. Most people don't give too much attention to side/solo projects. I'm guilty of it, some of it due to not caring and some of it due to not having time to check out everything. I have no life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hzielaskowski Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Well if we discuss SunnO))) vs solo O'Malley, I'm picking his solo works. Check out "Gruides". This will be in my Top10 this year. Sick neo-classic drone. "Kannon" sounds like a little puppy compared to "Gruides". People are buying SunnO))) just for the name. Well at least Southern Lord can always make some easy money if needed.Anyhow I consider SOMA as a genius. 74R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azvd Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 He has plenty of work on his bag that understandably brought some of his O))) fanbase down on his solo releases. Salt, for instance, just to mention one. People that got hooked on them because of the crossover with metal would be completely frustrated and take him as a pretentious artist. I like some of his work (some KTL releases and Tempestarii + DISintegration comes to mind) but some didn't do much for me. I think he has an artistic vision and is faithful to whatever is on his mind at a particular time. But I don't agree he's more important than Anderson to craft Sunn's music, neither than Attila, nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mertzrock Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 There are plenty of bands where that happens though. A Lee Ronaldo album won't get any attention on here, but Sonic Youth will get plenty. It's Lee Ranaldo by the way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiatorhums Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 It's Lee Ranaldo by the way... I was too lazy to look it up I think misspelling it proves my point even more, haha. 74R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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