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Title: Death Becomes You
Review: Get good speakers or you can't appreciate Sunn 0))). With their unyielding sub-woofer-crunching mind-numbing death-drones, the duo wracks every corner of your mind with their bleak guitar riffs played sustenuto ad nauseum. It is minimal and effective, subdued and explosive, painful yet beautiful. Just as vanilla metalheadz can't understand Sunn 0))), yuppified metalheadz wouldn't understand the sinister power of the Merzbow collaborations on Bow 1 and Bow 2. One has to understand Merzbow's involvement with the s/m scene, to understand the intended pain imparted from each hammered note from the prepared piano. With the persistent metallic-grinds of Sunn 0))) guitars bethrolled to Merzbow's irrepressible death-electronics, one cannot escape the inexorable feeling of death, doom and gloom, over and over and over. With music imparting paradoxical lessons of reincarnation in death in such a stylish fashion, one cannot help but feel deeply humbled.
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