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Sep 5, 2014These two groups disappear into each other as naturally as vapor disappears into the air, and the general atmosphere favors an industrial interpretation rather than a drone or doom-metal one.
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014This 35-minute suite is hypnotically cinematic, skillfully orchestrated. [May 2014, p.119]
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Mar 31, 2014Anyone feeling the mildest desire to get on with their day may reach for the volume control and reduce the endless drone to background level – hardly the point of the exercise.
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Mar 11, 2014Altogether different from normality, and further down the path towards minimalist orchestral experimentation than expected, Terrestrials is a challenging listen yet it retains some weird, mystic ability to attract and transfix its audience.
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Alternative PressFeb 20, 2014What keeps this from being a cavernous frightfest is what the members of Ulver bring to the table. [Mar 2014, p.94]
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Feb 14, 2014What Terrestrials does reveal about Sunn O))) is their amiability, their unique potential to bring the concept of Sunn O))), if not its distinct sound, to an album that really isn’t quite their own.
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MojoFeb 11, 2014The wait has been worth it. [Mar 2014, p.88]
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Feb 11, 2014Terrestrials bolsters both bands' oeuvres.
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Feb 7, 2014A trio of absorbing driftworks.
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Feb 7, 2014As each track unfurls, its glacial pace arrests the listener’s search for novelty, forcing attention to the profundities of the mix and the texture that the interlaced sounds create; and yet it also deepens the desire for what each step forward promises, the crisis that the procession patiently unveils.
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Feb 5, 2014Ultimately, Terrestrials works as a likable listen, a liminal play concerning the push and pull between dusk and dawn. But it serves as a mere footnote or, at beast, an appealing redundancy for Sunn O))) and Ulver.
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Feb 4, 2014Terrestrials should first be seen as a meeting of chameleonic polyglots, and the result is most unexpectedly beautiful and luminescent.
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Feb 4, 2014Their collaboration doesn’t quite rival the strongest albums of either band’s catalog, but Sunn O))) and Ulver have produced an ecstatic, beautiful piece of experimental metal that celebrates the strengths of both bands.
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Feb 3, 2014It perfectly reflects both Sunn 0)))'s impenetrably emotional dark heart and Ulver's expertly crafted senses of drama and dynamic.
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Kerrang!Feb 3, 2014Good in the dark on headphones, but it's not going to get the party started. [25 Jan 2014, p.54]
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UncutFeb 3, 2014Infinite loops and surging crescendos constitute a psychedelic session more about melancholic beauty than foreboding. [Mar 2014, p.83]
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Feb 3, 2014Even with the missteps and occasional ennui, Terrestrials is a welcome merger between two insuppressible forces in the industry today, which should leave us all curious about what their next cloak-and-dagger collaboration will sound like.
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The WireJan 30, 2014For Ulver's three-part collaboration with Sunn))), the mood is equally holy, reverential and mysterious. [Feb 2014, p.52]
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Jan 30, 2014Terrestrials sounds surprisingly cohesive considering the project’s improvised roots and slow development.
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Jan 30, 201436 minutes and three tracks of rich, enveloping, meditative heaviness.
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Jan 30, 2014Their least bowel-emptying tremor to date, it does make one anticipate Sunn O)))’s next move with both excitement and anxiety.
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Jan 30, 2014It's long, languorous and wonderful in its invention, with Ulver lending emotional heft to Sunn O)))'s wall of tone.