Earth (band)
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This article is about the drone band. For other bands called Earth, see Earth (disambiguation)
| Earth | |
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 Jonas Haskins, Dylan Carlson, Adrienne Davies |
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| Country | Olympia, Washington, United States |
| Years active | 1990 – present |
| Genres | Drone metal |
| Labels | Anja Sub Pop No Quarter Records Or Records Southern Lord Records |
| Members | Dylan Carlson Adrienne Davies Jonas Haskins |
| Past members | Slim Moon Greg Babior Kelly Canary Joe Preston Ian Dickson Dave Harwell Sean McElligot Steve Moore Michael McDaniel Tobi Vail |
Earth is an American drone band based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1990 by Dylan Carlson, Slim Moon, and Greg Babior. Although at different times they have played various styles of music, they are best know as pioneers of a minimalistic, long and repetitive form of doom metal known as drone. Sometimes, they are labeled as doom metal but they have little to do with metal, at least in their current sound. However, their first two or three albums could be seen as an extreme variation of the experimental doom-influenced metal of The Melvins. They are highly respected in the underground, especially in doom/sludge communities. The band at some point moved to Seattle, where they met with grunge music icon Kurt Cobain who sang lead vocals in the song "Divine and Bright", from a demo included on the re-release of the live album Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars. Dylan Carlson has been the driving force of the band and still remains the core of an ever changing line-up. Well known drone band Sunn O))) were also named after Earth's (and thence Sunn O)))'s) amps of choice, Sunn.
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[edit] Discography
- (1990) EARTH - Self-Titled 7" (Private Pressing)
- (1990) 10 1990 (Anja)
- (1991) Extra-Capsular Extraction (Sub Pop)
- (1993) Earth 2 (Sub Pop)
- (1995) Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions (Sub Pop)
- (1997) Pentastar: in The Style of Demons (Sub Pop)
- (1997) Scatter (Compilation album with Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, Daniel Menche, and John Hudak. (Ash International).
- (2001) Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars - compilation (No Quarter Records)
- (2003) 070796 Live - live (Autofact) (expanded Live 070796 vinyl [1] from Or Records)
- (2005) Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword - live (Megablade)
- (2005) Legacy of Dissolution - remixes (No Quarter Records)
- (2005) Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method) (Southern Lord)
- (2006) LiveHex (Archive)
- (2006) AngelComa split with SunnO))) (Southern Lord)
- (2007) Hibernaculum (Dualdisc feat. remixed songs and documentary) (Southern Lord)
[edit] Members
[edit] Current line-up
[edit] Former members
- Slim Moon (founder of the Kill Rock Stars record label)
- Greg Babior
- Kelly Canary
- Joe Preston
- Ian Dickson
- Dave Harwell
- Sean McElligot
- Michael McDaniel
- Steve Moore
- Tobi Vail
[edit] See also
- Sunn O))), a drone band started as a tribute to Earth
[edit] External links
- Thrones and Dominions.com - Official website
- Biography of Earth at Sub Pop
- Reviews of Earth at Doom-Metal.com
- Live in performance at The Vera Project - Photos by Bruce C Moore
