{"id":8691,"date":"2018-07-31T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:25:44","slug":"the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=8691","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time &#8211; #98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/the-100-greatest-metal-albums-of-all-time-113614\/sunn-o-monoliths-dimensions-2009-196161\/\">Sunn O))), \u2018Monoliths &amp; Dimensions\u2019 (2009)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2018\/07\/sunno-monoliths-and-dimensions.jpg?mtime=1533014614\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hellem.org\/blog\/media\/blogs\/new\/2018\/07\/sunno-monoliths-and-dimensions.jpg?mtime=1533014614\" width=\"385\" height=\"385\" class=\"loadimg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and I have started to regret the &#8220;no skip&#8221;-rule. I quote Rolling Stone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would never claim that Sunn O))) is a jazz band, but I think there are elements of jazz, if it\u2019s not the tone, it\u2019s the theories and the openness,\u201d Sunn O)))\u2019s Greg Anderson told The Wire. While no one will confuse Dave Brubeck with Sunn O)))\u2019s signature roar \u2013 wall-rumbling slabs of drumless, heavily amplified electric-guitar drone \u2013 the open-ended platform allows the avant-metal duo to collaborate and experiment with ease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This album was way out of my league&#8230;I now listen to David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Heroes&#8221; just to wash my ears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunn O))), \u2018Monoliths &amp; Dimensions\u2019 (2009) &#8230;and I have started to regret the &#8220;no skip&#8221;-rule. I quote Rolling Stone: \u201cI would never claim that Sunn O))) is a jazz band, but I think there are elements of jazz, if it\u2019s not the tone, it\u2019s the theories and the openness,\u201d Sunn O)))\u2019s Greg Anderson told The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8955,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}