Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley Releases Fuck Fundamentalist Pigs in Response to Paris Attacks

Photo via O'Malley's website

Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley has released the 2xLP Fuck Fundamentalist Pigs, featuring live recordings taken from shows O'Malley played in Norway in January, following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, as FACT points out. Fuck Fundamentalist Pigs was originally set to be released as a trilogy in 2016, but the release was pushed up following last month's terrorist attacks. (O'Malley has lived in Paris for years.)

O'Malley also shared a statement about the release. Read the whole thing here, and find an excerpt below:

It’s clear that as an experimental guitar player I have absolutely no political power (or even ability to articulate in those forms) but it’s important to take the opportunity to say « fuck you » in these situations. To the facist & fundamentalist movements. To the absurding of the worst sides of monotheistic belief systems. And not only the perpetrators behind these events but also on other sides including the reactive and opportunistic. Those with most to gain are the underlying authoritarians in our own societies who have opportunities to implement and increase their control even further for their gains. The « security » changes we face in fact may also result in yet further increase in the loss of liberty and freedom.

The reactions aimed toward increased separation of cultures, xenophobia, nationalism, and especially racism are highly regrettable. I hope these recordings offer a small sense of solace in the time, even for the few hundred who hear them.

The profits from the record will be donated to the French Red Cross.

Sunn O))) released their latest album, Kannon, a couple weeks ago. 

via Jeremy Gordon