Sunn O))) sign to Sub Pop, announce new 12-inch single
Drone-doom lords Sunn O))) have signed with Sub Pop and released a new 12-inch EP. Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley previously released a 7-inch via Sub Pop’s Singles Series in 2023, “Evil Chuck” b/w “Ron G. Warrior.” Now they’ve released Eternity Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential, a new 12-inch single now available via Sub Pop’s Mega Mart and on streaming services. Hear it below.
The duo have described the release in a statement:
“Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential is sunn O)))’s premier work on the maxi 12” medium for Sub Pop.
“It consists of three brand new tracks created and performed by the iconic duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson and co-produced by sunn O))) and Brad Wood. Brad Wood recorded the material at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville and Sea Grass in Los Angeles in 2025. The tracks on this maxi 12” are the first official sunn O))) studio recordings to feature only the original core duo on heavily saturated electric guitars and synthesis.
“sunn O))) gave extreme focus and care to each step and aspect of the recording, each tone and level of saturation, each gain stage and speaker, each arrangement and harmonic. The Pacific Northwest forest is our guide.
“‘Eternity’s Pillars’ is named for the mid-1980s television program created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, focusing on her incessant belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence. ‘Raise the Chalice’ is named for a rallying cry often uttered by Northwest legend Ron Guardipee throughout the mid-1990s. ‘Reverential’ equally pays respect and sends loud praise to those who came before us with the heaviest burdens, expressions with music and art being the materials of an antiphon.
“The front cover of the maxi 12” depicts the duo in the woods northeast of Seattle, through the lens of Charles Peterson.”
Sunn O)))’s last album was 2019’s Pyroclasts.
Sunn O))) tour dates:
Tue. Oct. 14 – Budapest, HU – Dürer Kert
Wed. Oct. 15 – Zagreb, HR – Kino SC
Fri. Oct. 17 – Sofia, BG – Club Joy Station
Sat. Oct. 18 – Thessaloniki, GR – Principal Club
Sun. Oct. 19 – Athens, GR – Gagarin 205
Tue. Oct. 21 – Skopje, MK – MKC
Wed. Oct. 22 – Belgrade, RS – Drugstore
Fri. Oct. 24 – Venice, IT – Venice Music Biennale
Sun. Oct. 26 – Torino, IT – Audiodrome
Mon. Oct. 27 – Munich, DE – Backstage Werk
Tue. Oct. 28 – Dresden, DE – Reithalle Strasse E
Thu. Oct. 30 – Lyon, FR – Nuits Sonores @ Le Sucre
Sat. Nov. 01 – Brussels, BE – Botanique Les Nuits Weekender
Mon. Nov. 03 – Aarhus, DK – Voxhall
Tue. Nov. 04 – Malmö, SE- Plan B
Wed. Nov. 05 – Hamburg, DE – Uebel & Gefährlich
Thu. Nov. 06 – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who Festival
