10 Albums Recorded In Bizarre Locations

10. Black One - Sun O)))

Pioneering drone metaller's Sunn O))) create a distinctive, uncompromising music characterized by slow, rumbling soundscapes, distorted guitars with low tunings and rhythm-free compositions. Named after the Sunn brand of amplifiers and its accompanying logo, the Seattle band are nothing if not committed to their vision.

2005's suitably titled Black One serves up a labyrinth of dense, dark music, with glacial guitars, quavering riffs and vocals which sound as if they are being transmitted from the other side of the veil. It's this last element that places Black One firmly on this list. Guest vocalist Scott Conner (of the band Xasthur) provides many of the 'human' sounds, not least on the album's closer, the sixteen-minute-long Bathory Erzsebet.

For this track, Connor (better know under his pseudonym, Malefic), who suffers from claustrophobia, was locked inside a funeral casket, in the back of a hearse, no less, with only a microphone for company. The results are as unsettling and striking as you might expect.