O))) Presents...

O))) Presents...
Album cover for O))) Presents...
Live album by Pentemple
Released	May 12 2008
Genre	Drone/Doom, Black Metal, Dark Ambient
Length	42:44
Producer	John Hall, Oren Ambarchi, Franc Tetaz
Pentemple chronology
	O))) Presents... (2008)

O))) Presents... is a one-off collaborative live performance from 2007, culminating in Sunn O))) performing alongside Striborg in Melbourne on 8 May 2007 under the name Pentemple. O))) Presents... is a live album documenting this special occasion, also notable for Sunn O))) performing live with a drummer for the first time.

O))) Presents... was released on Southern Lord Records as SUNN95.

Background

This group performed on Tuesday 8th May 2007 at The Toff in Town, Melbourne, Australia. It was a one-off improv performance the day before a Sunn O))) & Boris show.

In May of 2007 Sunn O))) embarked on a Pacific Rim tour that included performances in Australia and Japan. The line-up for this tour included the core Sunn O))) duo: Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley plus T.O.S. on Moog, Oren Ambarchi (analogue effects and supplemental guitar) and vocalist Attila Csihar. Upon arrival in Melbourne, Australia, Sunn O))) invited one of their favourite black metal artists: Sin Nanna of Striborg to collaborate with them during their show. This unholy meeting went over very well and the inaugural ritual was a warm-up gig at the Toft in Town club one evening before the larger gig at the Hi-Fi Bar (with brethren: Boris).

The results of this collaboration was a completely improvisational, vicious audio and visual assault on the sold out, standing room only audience! This was among the first time that Sunn O))) had worked with live drums and the outcome was completely unprecedented. The whole event was recorded live to 24-track/multi-track. Afterwards Oren Ambarchi edited, sequenced and overhauled the EQ to make it as brutal as possible. This blackened low-end psychedelic war is not for the faint of heart!

The CD was released limited to 3000 machine numbered copies. A vinyl edition was also made and limited to 3000 copies (2000 black, 1000 gold).

Pentemple - O))) Presents...

Tracklist

NOTE: Track 3 is only on the Daymare 2CD edition.

• 1. Pazuzu I (22:23)
• 2. Pazuzu II (20:11)
• 3. Pazuzu III (31:48)

Personnel

• The Lord - Electric Bass Guitar & Triple Stack
• SOMA - Travis Bean, Twin Reverb & Model T
• Oren - Guitar, Sunn & Ampeg, Editing, Mixing
• T.O.S. - Moog
• Attila - Hering
• Sin Nanna - Delay Voice, Drumkit
• John Hall - Live Sound
• Ben Browne & Tim Peach - Live Photos
• Franc Tetaz - Mastering
• Justin Bartlett - Cover Art