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Generally favorable reviews- based on 90 Ratings
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Positive: 59 out of 90
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Mixed: 7 out of 90
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Negative: 24 out of 90
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Oct 1, 2010every aspect of this album is brilliant. I'm usually not a huge drone fan but the massive amount of elements and huge atmosphere won me over. Insanely good.
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CharlesHJun 10, 2009Amazing album. Does exactly what they needed to do to progress musically and dynamically. A masterpiece of its genre.
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MarkSJun 21, 2009"Aghartha" is the perfect choice to open your 2009 Halloween mix.
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AxelFJul 20, 2009
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OkerNJun 13, 2009I don't think most people, reviewers included, realize that they've heard one of, if not The record of the decade, and the reason for that is quite simple indeed: they didn't turn it up loud enough. Give it 10 years. See what they'll be saying then.
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bsJul 19, 2009I guess the closed-minded are allowed to voice their opinions too. But come on, if you can't get in to a band, you don't unerstand what they're trying to achieve, or they just rub you the wrong way, that makes them pretentious and hipsters? Get a real argument a**holes.
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DaveSJul 22, 2009"It's music serving as a physical force, not an emotional or intellectual one. And by physical, I mean that you should FEEL the sound pressing against your body." Airplane turbines have a similar effect. Check them out dude. They're really cutting edge.
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DerekBAug 6, 2009
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JesseT.Aug 6, 2009
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SeanJan 21, 2010
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MickJan 21, 2010This is an absolute dirge. Seems so many music websites are afraid of the big white elephant in the corner of the room (that being Pitchfork) that they'll fall over themselves to endorse anything they like. This is, in short, crap.
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SteveR.Dec 7, 2009It was a great album. The first track is a bit weak, but everything else on the album is amazing.
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JohnM.Oct 29, 2009
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GabrielCJun 15, 2009A great masterpiece, one of the best metal albums of the decade, hands down.
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EricC.Jun 28, 2009
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KateSJun 9, 2009Wow! this album is incredible music masterpiece.
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MarylinYJun 9, 2009One of the best metal albums of the decade.
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AlexF.Jul 10, 2009Listening through this album is painful. The pretension on this album borders on parody. There is no demonstrable musical or compositional talent. The majority of the album alternates between a few notes, each held for dramatic emphasis. Lyrics are mumbled and paused excessively, also for dramatic emphasis.
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rudigerfJul 16, 2009
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LanceRJul 18, 2009
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JamesRJul 27, 2009So good! Can't wait to see it preformed at the haunted Brookdale Lodge!
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DerekSAug 12, 2009I actually quite like this album- the droning, the repetition, the lack of any melody, rhythm etc...but then again I find the noise of vacuum cleaners relaxing.
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AndrewMAug 15, 2009This album has no redeeming musical or artistic quality whatsoever. The album is an unappealing and entirely uncreative amalgam of sparse noises. To second the statement made by someone else, this album "was painful to listen to."
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DiggerNAug 20, 2009I kept waiting for the Stonehenge lyrics to start. Pompous rubbish. Very Tap indeed.
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RaulVAug 20, 2009I find this to be good chill music. It's very slow, but not boring or pretentious (I don't know where people are getting pretentious from). It's not for everyone, but please don't be stupid and call it "uncreative". Bands like Three Days Grace are uncreative, not this.
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Lol:)R.Aug 25, 2009
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nickAug 26, 2009
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KeithAug 28, 2009Fortunately, not more of the same - the introduction of more instruments into the album while not overloading the songs brings to the sound its appropriate atmosphere. And yes, one feels the power of the Sunn O))) when he blasts it from powerful speakers. "Alice" might be their most graceful and beautiful track yet.
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PatrickF.Aug 29, 2009
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CoreyAug 3, 2009
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LukeKAug 5, 2009This stuff is amazing. I don't know how you can call it pretentious, it's formed out of genres that have already existed. It's just done a lot better than most have attempted. Also, Best. Band. Name. Ever.
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alexgAug 6, 2009Well, if you gotta be excentric, you ll say this album is good. if you wanna be sincere to yourself, you ll have to admit this is no more than pretentious noise. Critics who scored this high are only faking smart decadency, this is a perfect example of artzie kitsch.
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hubcapOct 22, 2009People who like this sort of thing will find that this is the sort of thing that they like. Other people will wonder what the fuss is about.
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NOTR.Jul 18, 2009Kid, stick w/ your Sujan Stevens albums okay? "Trend" has nothing to do with it - and with you so HEAVILY relying on use of that term, you reveal MUCH about yourself and ZERO about this album. It's like a 9 year-old trying to explain 2001: A Space Odyssey to you?
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MichaelDJul 22, 2009
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JustinLJul 24, 2009
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JohnRAug 11, 2009
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MattAug 13, 2009
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DougKAug 14, 2009It took me several listens to be able to bring this up in my rotation without flinching, but I finally got to the point where I look forward to the change of pace. I'm just really disappointed that some of my fellow music lovers are so opinionated about other's opinions. There's certainly no need for name calling.
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BrianAAug 15, 2009Okay, so I've given this album a couple of listens and despite the ridiculously good reviews it has managed to obtain, I just don't get it. I find myself wanting SOMETHING out of it. The songs lack any sort of progression whatsoever, and when they're an average of 10 minutes each, I demand progression! Someone please explain this to me.
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P.M.Aug 25, 2009Did Julian Priester introduce Sunn O))) to trombonist George Lewis' 1979 "Homage to Charlie Parker"? This is great material.
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Mar 17, 2014my opinion, a very good listen when you can completely devote the time to do nothing else. I am only going to give 2 stars just because I prefer to experience a record like this live. Playing this in the home, on headphones, in the car, etc. is going to do absolutely nothing for me.
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Dec 18, 2019Absolutely Incredible. As an emotional college student, I assign great value to avant-garde compositions which remind me of our impending doom. The composition is creative, brilliantly executed, and most definitely a wonderful divergence from the music of 00s.
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Apr 12, 2020Actually this is a podcast record, but microphone doesn't work. And... GARGANTUAN TROLL -with all rewiev.
Awards & Rankings
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Monoliths and Dimensions succeeds because it is the sound of a new music formed from the ashen forge of drone, rock, and black metal.
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Hopefully those that came to SunnO))) through "Black One" will find much to love here. If they don’t they will be seriously missing out as Monoliths & Dimensions is devastatingly epic.
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For anyone interested in music that works both as art and an intensely new exciting experience--this is easily the best album that has come out this year.