''Flight of the Behemoth'' (also known as ''3: Flight of the Behemoth'') is the second album by Sunn O))).

Background and release

The band collaborated with the Japanese

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, who mixed tracks 3 and 4, and a recording of the two performing together at the 2007 Earthdom Festival in Tokyo was added for a 2007 2CD reissue in Japan. Southern Lord released this version as a download on

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in 2013. The French label Bisect Bleep Industries released the first pressings of the 2LP version in 2002 (200 copies on black vinyl, 150 on red, 150 on clear), with the bonus track "Grimm & Bear It", which was recorded live at Gaba in Los Angeles in 1998. Southern Lord remastered and re-released this version (800 copies on gold & black splatter vinyl for

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2020's third drop, 500 on gold) in 2020. "Grimm & Bear It" was later included as a bonus track on the 2005 CD reissue of ''

The Grimmrobe Demos ''The Grimmrobe Demos'' is Sunn O)))'s first recorded album and is the most direct representation of its self-proclaimed Earth-worship. It was originally limited to 500 copies by Hydra Head Records but, in 2005, Southern Lord Records reissued i ...

''. Sunn O))) used a drum machine and their own

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for the first time ever on the track "F.W.T.B.T.", an interpretation of Metallica's "

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Track listing

;2LP bonus track ;2CD/Bandcamp bonus tracks

Session musicians

*Aspirin Feast – drums on "F.W.T.B.T." * Bootsy Kronos –

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on "F.W.T.B.T." {{Authority control 2002 albums Southern Lord Records albums Sunn O))) albums