Sun Baked Snow Cave is a collaborative album between Japanese experimental doom band Boris and Japanese noise musician Merzbow.
The album consists of a single track that clocks in at over an hour in length.
The album artwork was done by Sunn O))) member and regular Hydra Head designer Stephen O'Malley.
[9][10] Structurally, the album has three distinct sections: the opening 18 minutes consist primarily of quiet, sparse acoustic guitar strums backed by distant whirs and machine noises; a lengthy crossfade shifts the album into drone doom metal, with Merzbow's accentuation via harsh noise layers; eventually, the loud half-hour settles through movements of noise into 6 minutes of a quiet electric guitar and ambience coda.
Initially available on August 16, 2014 as a limited release on the Hydra Head online store and from Boris on tour.