…You’ve likely heard of Sam Slater as one-fourth of much-celebrated experimental heavies OSMIUM, a supergroup of sorts featuring Hildur Guðnadóttir, Senyawa’s Rully Shabara, and emptyset’s James Ginzburg. And sure, Lunng shares at least a little aesthetic and conceptual DNA with Slater’s more well-known side gig. For a start, both projects seem propelled in part by a compulsion to explore the idea and feeling of metal without really playing metal as such. But where OSMIUM’s thrilling, alien sturm und drang rigorously explores a relentlessly dark palette, Lunng’s proto-dystopic swatch book is much broader and more varied in hue. Slater’s heaviness makes ample room for moments of delicacy and fleeting beauty and vulnerable humanity. Shafts of pink and…

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