Stephen O'Malley


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Biography

O'Malley is a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, KTL, and Khanate. Within these groups and alone, he has collaborated with a variety of artists including Greg Anderson, Merzbow, Eyvind Kang, Alan Moore, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, F.M. Einheit, Randall Dunn, James Plotkin, Julian Cope, Joe Preston, Attila Csihar, Stuart Dempster, Peter Rehberg aka PITA, Lee Dorian, Thurston Moore, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nurse With Wound, the Japanese metal band Boris & Michio Kurihara, Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino, Daniel O'Sullivan & Kristoffer Rygg, Aaron Turner, Oren Ambarchi, Alexander Tucker, and percussionist Z'EV.
O'Malley also produced work together with the French choreographer and theatre director Gisèle Vienne, "Jerk", "Eternelle Idole", This Is How You Will Disappear ), Last Spring: A Prequel, American sculptor Banks Violette, the Italian performance artist Nico Vascellari, Swiss art collective KLAT, and the Belgian film maker Alexis Destoop.
O'Malley has directed and produced album cover art and design since the early 1990s for groups including Earth, Burzum, Emperor, and Boris. He has also worked as a rock/metal music journalist & published a black metal fanzine called Descent in the nineties. He was involved with creation of both the Southern Lord label and the experimental/neofolk/black metal label The Ajna Offensive. In 2011 he began curating and art directing the Ideologic Organ record label, in association with the Viennese Editions Mego.
Although he is originally from Seattle, O'Malley's Web site indicates that he lives in Paris, France.

Discography

With Sunn O)))