Earth (band)
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| Background information | ||
| Origin | Olympia, Washington, United States  |
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| Genre(s) | Experimental Drone |
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| Years active | 1990 – present | |
| Label(s) | Anja Sub Pop No Quarter Records Or Records Southern Lord Records |
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Nirvana | |
| Website | Official Website | |
| Members | ||
| Dylan Carlson Adrienne Davies Jonas Haskins |
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| Slim Moon Greg Babior Kelly Canary Joe Preston Ian Dickson Dave Harwell Sean McElligot Steve Moore Michael McDaniel Tobi Vail |
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Earth is an American drone band based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1990 by Dylan Carlson, Slim Moon, and Greg Babior. Although they have played various styles of music, they are best known as pioneers of a minimalistic, long and repetitive form of heavy music known as drone. To a lesser extent their sound is referred to as doom metal. Earth however, has little to do with metal - at least in their current sound. Their early albums could be seen as a variation of the experimental doom-influenced metal of The Melvins.
Dylan Carlson has been the driving force within the band and has remained the core of an ever changing line-up. Outside of the underground music world, Carlson is perhaps best known for having been the best friend of grunge music icon Kurt Cobain and at the request of Cobain, purchased the infamous gun (for home protection; not suicide) that Cobain allegedly used to commit suicide with. [1] After Earth had moved to Seattle, Cobain 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.
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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. rerecorded songs from past albums in Earth's new "western" style and documentary) (Southern Lord)
- (2007) The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (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
- Kurt Cobain
- Joe Preston
- Ian Dickson
- Dave Harwell
- Sean McElligot
- Michael McDaniel
- Steve Moore
- John Schuller
- Tobi Vail
[edit] Trivia
- Earth takes its name from the first incarnation of Black Sabbath
- The drone band Sunn O))) were named after Earth's (and thence Sunn O)))'s) amps of choice, Sunn.
[edit] See also
- Sunn O))), the band that Earth is predecessor to.
[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
- DISSOLUTION - Unofficial fan website
