''Kannon'' is the seventh full-length studio album by

drone metal Drone metal or drone doom is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music. Drone metal is sometimes associated with post-metal or experimental metal. Characteristics Ty ...

band

Sunn O))) Sunn O))) (pronounced "sun") is an American experimental metal band formed in 1998 in Seattle, Washington. The band is known for their distinctive visual style and slow, heavy sound, which blends diverse genres including doom metal, drone, bla ...

Track listing

Production

*Produced by Sunn O))) (Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson) with Randall Dunn *Engineers: Randall Dunn, Jason Ward *Assistant Engineer: Mell Dettmer *Art direction: Stephen O'Malley *Cover art: Angela Bolliger, photographed by Robyn Vickers, text by Aliza Shvarts *Band portraits: Estelle Hanania

Personnel

Stephen O'Malley Stephen O'Malley (sometimes referred to as SOMA; born July 15, 1974) is an American guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist from Seattle, Washington, who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and exper ...

– guitars * Greg Anderson – bass guitar, additional guitars on tracks 2 and 3 *

Attila Csihar Attila Csihar (; born 29 March 1971), also sometimes known as Void, is a Hungarian extreme metal vocalist, best known for his vocal work in Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and American drone-doom project Sunn O))). Author Ian Christe descr ...

– voice *

Oren Ambarchi Oren Ambarchi (born 1969) is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion. Biography Oren Ambarchi was born in Sydney to an Iraqi Jewish family. Ambarchi has been performing live since ...

– additional guitars and oscillator on tracks 1 and 2 *

Randall Dunn Randall Dunn is an American record producer, audio engineer, and musician. As a record producer, he has worked with musical acts such as Sunn O))), Six Organs of Admittance, Marissa Nadler, Wolves in the Throne Room, Boris, Anna Von Haussw ...

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Korg MS-20 The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic analog synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and which was in production until 1983. It was part of Korg's MS series of instruments, which also included the single oscillator MS-10, the ke ...

on tracks 1 and 2 *Steve Moore –

Juno 106 The Roland Juno-106 is a synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in February 1984. Features The Juno-106 is a polyphonic synthesizer with six voices. It is an analog synthesizer but with digitally controlled oscillators and chorus effects ...

on track 2 *Brad Mowen – concert bass drum on track 2 *Rex Ritter – Moog on track 2 *Dempster, Priester, and Moore – conch trio Credits adapted from official marketing text.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kannon 2015 albums Ambient albums by American artists Concept albums Southern Lord Records albums Sunn O))) albums