Stephen O'Malley - F*ck Fundamentalist Pigs (2015)

F*ck Fundamentalist Pigs is Stephen O’Malley’s crushing, personal and intensely emotive retort to the fascists and fundamentalists who undermine his and our sense of personal liberty and freedom, particularly in the wake of attacks suffered by Charlie Hebdo magazine and the residents of Paris during late 2015, and the countless poor souls who’ve suffered in the Middle East, Kenya and North Africa.

The material itself is just staggering - appearing a mere couple of weeks after Sunn O)))’s Kannon and once again displaying the intensity of O’Malley's immersive, uncompromising aesthetic, congealing tarriest waves of sub-harmonic drone and bad-handed chord changes into a glaring expression of sustained, paranoid tension and jawing, cathartic blows.

The original recordings were made only days after the Charlie Hebdo attack at the start of 2015 and intended to be released under this title as the start of a trio of live recordings thru iDEAL in spring 2016. However, in light of the recent 13th November attacks, he felt it was only right to bring forward this release to “offer a small sense of solace in the time, even for the few hundred who hear them.”