Earth (band)
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Earth is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 musical group based in Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

, Washington, formed in 1989 and led by guitarist Dylan Carlson
Dylan Carlson
Dylan Carlson is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the Drone doom group Earth.Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His father worked for the Department of Defense, and, as a result, as a child he moved quite frequently, living in Philadelphia, Texas,...

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Earth's music is nearly all instrumental
Instrumental rock
Instrumental rock is a type of rock music which emphasizes musical instruments, and which features very little or no singing.Examples of instrumental rock can be found in practically every subgenre of rock, often from musicians who specialize in the style, most notably Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Link...

, and can be divided into two distinct stages. Their early work characterized by heavy distorted droning
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...

, minimalist
Minimalism
Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

, lengthy, and repetitive structures; it is recognized as pioneering the genre of drone doom — an experimental offshoot of doom metal
Doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 . Following a hiatus due to Carlson's personal problems, Earth reappeared around 2005 with a markedly different sound. Their music was still drone based, slow-paced and lengthy, but now with a drummer and featuring strong elements of country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, English folk rock, including Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...

.

Biography

Dylan Carlson
Dylan Carlson
Dylan Carlson is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the Drone doom group Earth.Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His father worked for the Department of Defense, and, as a result, as a child he moved quite frequently, living in Philadelphia, Texas,...

 founded the band in 1989 along with Slim Moon
Slim Moon
Slim Moon is the founder of the independent music label, Kill Rock Stars. He also started its sister label, 5 Rue Christine...

 and Greg Babior, taking the title "Earth" from Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...

's original name. Carlson has remained the core of the band's line-up throughout its changes. Outside of the underground music world, Carlson is perhaps best known for having been a close friend of grunge
Grunge
Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...

 icon Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...

, as well as the person who purchased the gun that Cobain later used to commit suicide. 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
Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars
Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars is a live album by Earth, originally released in 1995 by Blast First Records. It contained the track "Ripped on Fascist Ideas" . It was re-released in 2001 by No Quarter Records with four bonus tracks taken from a 1990 demo...

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The drone doom band Sunn O)))
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...

, who formed as a tribute to Earth, were named after their collective amplifiers of choice, Sunn
Sunn
Sunn Amplifiers, are a brand of musical instrument amplifiers.- History :In early 1963, the Kingsmen, a band based in the U.S. state of Oregon, became known for the song "Louie, Louie". After its hit single, the band soon embarked on a fifty-state national tour...

. Sunn O))) also has a song entitled "Dylan Carlson" on its demo. The drone doom supergroup
Supergroup (music)
In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

 Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine are an English drone doom supergroup, formed in 2001 and featuring musicians from other metal bands.They take their name from the second song from the Earth album Earth 2...

 are named after the second song from Earth's first full-length album, Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version
Earth 2 (album)
Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version is the first full-length studio album by drone doom band Earth. It has been known as one of the pioneering drone doom albums, influencing such contemporary acts as Sunn O))) and Boris...

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The album Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I is the sixth full-length studio album by the band Earth, released on Southern Lord Records. Cello is introduced as a new instrument, along with the usual ones being used since the album Hex. Dylan Carlson describes the album as more melodic and riff oriented....

was released on February 22, 2011. The band have been chosen to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....

 festival curated by ATP & Portishead in September 2011 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Studio albums

  • 1993: Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version
    Earth 2 (album)
    Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version is the first full-length studio album by drone doom band Earth. It has been known as one of the pioneering drone doom albums, influencing such contemporary acts as Sunn O))) and Boris...

  • 1995: Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions
    Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions
    Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions is the second full-length studio album by drone band Earth.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Dylan Carlson - Guitars, Percussion*Tommy Hansen - Guitar *Rick Cambern - Drums...

  • 1996: Pentastar: In the Style of Demons
    Pentastar: in The Style of Demons
    Pentastar: In the Style of Demons is the third full-length studio album by drone doom band Earth. It features a more rock-oriented sound than their earlier drone doom work, although in a very minimalist style. "Peace in Mississippi" is a cover of the Jimi Hendrix song...

  • 2005: Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method
  • 2008: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
    The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
    -Line-up:*Dylan Carlson – electric guitars, amplifier*Steve Moore – acoustic grand piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer electric piano*Don McGreevy – bass guitar, double bass*Adrienne Davies – drums, percussion-Guest musicians:...

  • 2011: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
    Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I is the sixth full-length studio album by the band Earth, released on Southern Lord Records. Cello is introduced as a new instrument, along with the usual ones being used since the album Hex. Dylan Carlson describes the album as more melodic and riff oriented....

  • 2012: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

Live albums

  • 1995: Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars
    Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars
    Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars is a live album by Earth, originally released in 1995 by Blast First Records. It contained the track "Ripped on Fascist Ideas" . It was re-released in 2001 by No Quarter Records with four bonus tracks taken from a 1990 demo...

  • 2003: 070796 Live
    070796 Live
    -Track listing:...

  • 2005: Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword
    Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword
    Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword is a live album by American drone band Earth.-Track listing:...

  • 2006: Live Hex: In a Large City on the North American Continent
  • 2007: Live Europe 2006
  • 2008: Radio Earth

Splits

  • 2003: Earth/KK Null
    KK Null
    KK Null is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist. He began as a guitarist, but soon added composer, singer, electronic musician and drummer to his list of talents, and also studied with the Butoh workshop....

  • 2006: Angel Coma with Sunn O)))
    Sunn O)))
    Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...

  • 2007: Earth/Tribes of Neurot
    Tribes of Neurot
    Tribes of Neurot is an experimental ambient band that infuse tribal-like sounds into their music.-Biography:Tribes of Neurot is a side project of Neurosis that consists of all the members of Neurosis along with additional musicians. The music explores many of the same themes that Neurosis does but...

  • 2008: Earth/Sir Richard Bishop
    Sir Richard Bishop
    Sir Richard Bishop is a composer, improviser, and explorer on acoustic and electric guitar whose work often reflects the shadow worlds of India, the Middle East, North Africa, and other points along the Gypsy trail. This is combined with a singular, experimental approach to the guitar that takes...


Current members

  • Dylan Carlson
    Dylan Carlson
    Dylan Carlson is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the Drone doom group Earth.Carlson was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. His father worked for the Department of Defense, and, as a result, as a child he moved quite frequently, living in Philadelphia, Texas,...

     – guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Adrienne Davies
    Adrienne Davies
    Adrienne Davies is the current drummer and percussionist for the drone metal band, Earth.In addition, she is romantically involved with Dylan Carlson, frontman of the same band.Davies is credited as drummer on several of their albums...

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Lori Goldston
    Lori Goldston
    Lori Goldston is an American cellist. She was the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York...

     - Cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

  • Karl Blau
    Karl Blau
    Karl Blau is an indie rock and folk musician based in Anacortes, Washington, and member of the Knw-Yr-Own/K Records collective. His music is eclectic, incorporating elements of folk, dub, R&B, bossa nova, grunge, hip hop, drone, and worldbeat....

     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Angelina Baldoz - bass guitar (Tour)

Former members

  • Slim Moon
    Slim Moon
    Slim Moon is the founder of the independent music label, Kill Rock Stars. He also started its sister label, 5 Rue Christine...

     – vocals
  • Greg Babior – guitar
  • Joe Preston
    Joe Preston (bassist)
    Joe Preston is a rock bass guitarist and a former band member of Earth, The Melvins, Men's Recovery Project, The Need and High on Fire. Preston has also played with Sunn O))), and has a solo project called Thrones. Joe Preston learned bass from Alexander Giles. In 2007, he joined Harvey Milk in...

     – bass guitar, percussion
  • Ian Dickson – guitar, bass guitar
  • Dave Harwell – bass guitar
  • John Schuller - fender precision bass
  • Sean McElligot – guitar
  • Michael McDaniel – drums
  • Jonas Haskins
    Jonas Haskins
    Jonas Haskins is the former bass player for the drone metal band Earth. Prior to playing in Earth, he was a part of numerous obscure Seattle-based bands, such as The Jesus Chords. He also has collaborated with Sera Cahoone. Also, Haskins is a former employee of AdReady, Inc...

     – baritone guitar
    Baritone guitar
    The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...

  • Don McGreevy – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Steve "Stebmo" Moore - Electric piano
    Electric piano
    An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...

    , trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...


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