- 01Earth 2In all of Earth’s music, from the monotonous drone of Earth 2 to the Western twang of The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, you can feel the weight of a life lived in the heaviest ways possible.from the chapter
- 02The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s SkullIn all of Earth’s music, from the monotonous drone of Earth 2 to the Western twang of The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, you can feel the weight of a life lived in the heaviest ways possible.from the chapter
- 03The Well-Tuned PianoMy musical origins come from growing up listening to Black Sabbath records, seeing the Melvins perform, and reading about musicians like La Monte Young and Terry Riley…I got La Monte Young’s The Well-Tuned Piano and The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer that Gramavision put out.from the chapter
- 04The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown TransformerMy musical origins come from growing up listening to Black Sabbath records, seeing the Melvins perform, and reading about musicians like La Monte Young and Terry Riley…I got La Monte Young’s The Well-Tuned Piano and The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer that Gramavision put out.from the chapter
- 05Extra-Capsular ExtractionTrying in its repetition and tendency to let notes stretch their legs as far as possible, Extra-Capsular Extraction also has moments of relatively straightforward doom.from the chapter
- 06NevermindSub Pop put out Extra-Capsular Extraction in 1991, the same year Nirvana unleashed its zeitgeist-shaping album, Nevermind.from the chapter
- 07Black SabbathThe album is the Black Sabbath of drone metal. Other groups toyed with similar concepts before then and during that time, but none so powerfully as Earth.from the chapter
- 08Phase 3: Thrones and DominionsWith Sub Pop pressuring him to write a new LP, and at a time when his addiction made getting out of bed a challenge, Carlson worked on Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions through 1993 and ’94.from the chapter
- 09Pentastar: In the Style of DemonsFor 1996’s Pentastar: In the Style of Demons, Carlson decided to upend what people expected from Earth.from the chapter
- 10“Song 6 (Chime)”As exhibited by tracks such as the acoustic “Song 6 (Chime),” Phase 3 is a stepping-stone into the countrified drone of present-day Earth.from the chapter
- 11PentastarBy the time Pentastar came out, Carlson said, his life had only become more of a tangled mess.from the chapter
- 12Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed SwordWith those dates fast approaching, Carlson and Davies just decided to jam on a core riff for their set, which is captured on the 2002 live recording, Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword (released in 2005).from the chapter
- 13Hex; or Printing in the Infernal MethodThe group unveiled Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method the year Living in the Gleam… came out.from the chapter
- 14HexHex realizes that vision on a scale as grandiose as the Rocky Mountains.from the chapter
- 15The Good, the Bad and the UglyReleased on Greg Anderson’s Southern Lord label and recorded by Randall Dunn, Earth’s 2005 LP conjoins the depressive country of Merle Haggard with the westward sprawl of Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars.from the chapter
- 16A Fistful of DollarsReleased on Greg Anderson’s Southern Lord label and recorded by Randall Dunn, Earth’s 2005 LP conjoins the depressive country of Merle Haggard with the westward sprawl of Ennio Morricone’s soundtracks for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars.from the chapter
- 17Dead ManInfluenced by Neil Young’s sagebrush-pocked Dead Man soundtrack, Hex takes that drone-twang approach and uses it to build a dioramic world.from the chapter
- 18“Mirage”While “Land of Some Other Order,” “The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves,” and the mesmerizing “An Inquest Concerning Teeth” follow a clear narrative structure, tracks like “Mirage,” “Left in the Desert,” and “The Dry Lake” paint bleak Western settings with wind chimes dancing to a quiet breeze and a cowbell bouncing as if worn by a sauntering calf.from the chapter
- 19“Left in the Desert”While “Land of Some Other Order,” “The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves,” and the mesmerizing “An Inquest Concerning Teeth” follow a clear narrative structure, tracks like “Mirage,” “Left in the Desert,” and “The Dry Lake” paint bleak Western settings with wind chimes dancing to a quiet breeze and a cowbell bouncing as if worn by a sauntering calf.from the chapter
- 20“The Dry Lake”While “Land of Some Other Order,” “The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves,” and the mesmerizing “An Inquest Concerning Teeth” follow a clear narrative structure, tracks like “Mirage,” “Left in the Desert,” and “The Dry Lake” paint bleak Western settings with wind chimes dancing to a quiet breeze and a cowbell bouncing as if worn by a sauntering calf.from the chapter
- 21HibernaculumHibernaculum of 2007 is consuming in its fateful twang, sounding like a death knell for the human race.from the chapter
- 22Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1Though not quite as profound as The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, each subsequent Earth release, from Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 and 2 to 2014’s Primitive and Deadly, is transfixing in its sonic sprawl.from the chapter
- 23Primitive and DeadlyThough not quite as profound as The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, each subsequent Earth release, from Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 and 2 to 2014’s Primitive and Deadly, is transfixing in its sonic sprawl.from the chapter
- 24Concrete DesertIn 2017, Earth teamed with electronic musician and producer Kevin Martin, aka The Bug, to craft Concrete Desert, a release billed as a battle—The Bug vs.from the chapter