Line #12 Music/Earth


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Dylan Carlson. Right: Adrienne Davies]]
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4	Earth are a musical group based in Olympia, Washington, formed in 1989 by frontman and [[RevolvingDoorBand only constant member]] Dylan Carlson. They got signed by Creator/SubPop and released their debut EP, ''Extra-Capsular Extraction'', in 1991. Far removed by the then emerging {{Grunge}} and AlternativeRock scenes, is was a good 32 minutes of minimalist riffs being played as slow as possible. It wound up being the TropeMaker for Drone Metal, a subgenre of DoomMetal.
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6	Their first full-length, ''Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version'', took that up to eleven. Drums are removed from the equation entirely, guitars are layered on top of one another, [[EpicRocking there's only three tracks over the course of its 73 minute runtime]], and the final track, "Like Gold and Faceted", is a good 30 minutes of [[EndingFatigue the same chord stretched out to an ungodly length]]. If ''Extra-Capsular Extraction'' was the TropeMaker for Drone Metal, than ''Earth 2'' was the TropeCodifier.
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8	Carlson would tone the formula down for ''Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions'' and the live album ''Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars'', before completely swerving into Stoner Rock for ''Pentastar: In the Style of Demons'', albeit still minimalistic with the drones returning for the tracks "Crooked Axis for String Quartet" and "Sonar and Depth Change". Heck, Tallahasse even got a music video!
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10	Dylan put Earth on hiatus afterwards, citing his heroin addiction, connection to Kurt Cobain's death, and brief incarceration as reasons. He then got the project starting again in 2000, now with Adrienne Davies on drums. Davies would go on to become the second consistent member of Earth, not having left since her arrival. They have also expanded their sound to include {{Country}}, FolkMusic, and {{Jazz}} influences, and are now best described as PostRock. ''The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull'' is considered a classic of the genre.
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12	Dylan Carlson was notably friends with [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt]] [[Music/KurtCobain Cobain]]. Cobain claims to have written "In Bloom" about him, and it's believed that Carlson owned the shotgun Cobain killed himself with. Also worth mentioning in their influence on Music/SunnO. They started off as an Earth cover band, and named themselves after the amp Dylan used.
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15	!!!Discography
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17	* ''Extra-Capsular Extraction'' (EP, 1991)
18	* ''Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version'' (1993)
19	* ''Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions'' (1995)
20	* ''Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars'' (LiveAlbum, 1995)
21	* ''Pentastar: In the Style of Demons'' (1996)
22	* ''Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method'' (2005)
23	* ''Hibernaculum'' (EP, 2007. Consists of older tracks rerecorded to fit the style of ''Hex'')
24	* ''The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull'' (2008)
25	* ''Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I'' (2011)
26	* ''Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II'' (2012)
27	* ''Primitive and Deadly'' (2014)
28	* ''Full Upon Her Burning Lips'' (2019)
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30	!!!Tropes
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32	* EpicRocking: Masters of it. Obviously there's Earth 2, but the live track "Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword" is probably the longest track they've recorded at nearly an hour long.
33	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Pentastar'' for its more accessible and Stoner Rock driven sound, and ''Hex'' for its heavier country influence and shift into PostRock territory.
34	* SiameseTwinSongs: All of Earth 2, to the extent that it feels like a singular track split up into three tracks for ease of navigation.

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