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Roadburn Presents: Ulver, Atilla Csihar’s Void Ov Voices, February 12th at the 013 Venue, Tilburg, Holland

Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Ulver and Attila Csihar’s Void Ov Voices have been confirmed for a Roadburn Presents event to take place Friday, February 12th at the 013 club in Tilburg, Holland. Get your tickets here.

Norway’s Ulver are legendary conceptual artists who’ve exaggerated and blurred the lines between every musical form they’ve been enveloped. In larval form they torqued the genre of black metal with folk, jazz, minimalism and soundscape offering this generally conservative design liberties it was once afraid to embrace.

After completing their initial conceptual trilogy, Ulver have astounded all who have experienced their current material with elegance, intelligence and multiplicity. Retaining elements of their past, they now manipulate and extend the possibilities with a comprehensive understanding of the developing aural technologies.

Ulver appeared live in concert for the first time in 15 years at the Norwegian Festival of Literature in May. Norwegian media described the show “as something more than music, an artistic experience and a historical event.”

Now Ulver will appear live for the first time in the Netherlands.

Void Ov Voices, the new project from iconic Mayhem  frontman Attila Csihar based only on his processed voice, will be supporting Ulver.

Performing since 1986 when he co-founded cult-metal band Tormentor, Attila is best known for his contribution to Mayhem’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album in 1993, a milestone for the black metal genre. Csihar is, or has been, a member of various groups such as Plasma, Pool, Aborym, and Korog. He has also done guest vocals (and toured) with SUNN O))), Burian Chamber Trio and Grave Temple.

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Sunn O))) live reviewed in The New York Times

Posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009

With two musicians at its core — Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson — the band has rotating others in studio and onstage; its current tour includes Mr. Moore, of Earth, on keyboards and trombone, and the Hungarian singer Attila Csihar, once of the black-metal band ...read more

Pitchfork: Interviews Sunn O)))

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Grayson Currin of Pitchfork recently conducted an interview with Sunn 0))). An excerpt from the article follows below.
Judging by the consistent criticism that Sunn O)))’s metal-based drone experimentation suffers– that is, it’s boring, self-serious, humorless, and mean– perhaps one wouldn’t expect Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley to be cruising around ...read more

Druids, drone metal are just part of experiencing a Sunn O))) show

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

ESPN.com columnist & former pro basketball player Paul Shirley recently conducted an interview with Sunn 0))). An excerpt from the
article follows below
I feel Sunn O))) before I see them. It’s five minutes before 6 p.m., and I’m standing on the corner of Broadway and Westport in Kansas City, preparing for ...read more

Album of the day: Sunn 0))) – The GrimmRobe Demos (Southern Lord 2005)

Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009

(From our archives): When it came to ambient drone soundscapes, Dylan Carlson was a visionary. His seminal recordings with Earth blazed a new trail through the wilderness of possibility for distorted electric guitar. The drone-riff spectacular, Extra-Capsular Extraction was treated as a novelty by many listeners – especially since it ...read more

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, 24th – 26th of July

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

We’re going to attend Birmingham’s very own Supersonic Festival in July: “As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous ...read more