the of mirror eye

* Earth: A Plague Of Angels (excerpt) (3.8 mb) | Earth_MP3 (76.0 mb) | Earth_FLAC (256.0 mb)
From Live At The Fillmore : May 27th, 2006

Back before drone/doom metal (ala Sunn0))), Sleep, Om, etc) became all the rage, there was Earth. Named after an early incarnation of Black Sabbath, Earth took their cue from Sabbath’s, as well as the Melvins, dark, repetitive riff-age to the logical extreme. Formed in Seattle in 1990, the band has been the on again/off again project of main man, Dylan Carlson.

The ongoing musical project which is earth has always been concerned with repetition and the drone or THE NOTE. When I was younger and full of hubris I believed that a “pure” or “original” music could be developed in a static and removed state from other music. I now realize that music, especially music containing the drone or THE NOTE, and music that effects a spiritual reaction from the listener is a continuum. It is a music that has continued throughout time and manifested itself in a number of different forms or “genres” or”styles”. I began to see my music as part of and a product of that continuum. I also began to see that continuum strongly expressed in historically ‘american’ forms. Specifically the “genres” of “country” and “blues”. The truly ‘cosmic american musics’. This specifically ‘american’ style also got me thinking of the history of this continent. A continent of formerly endless frontiers. I was heavily influenced by the book “Blood Meridian; or the Evening Redness In the West”. A book that explores the real western expansion and real clash of people on this newest continent. It has been a continent that from the beginning has been alien and hostile yet possessing a bewitching beauty. ” A land of some other order. Whose geology is not of stone, but of fear.” There is an occult history to this continent, one of a continent evil in and of itself, a continent which the inhabitants have had to suffer mightily to carve their various “New Jerusalems” out of. An infernal landscape which requires, from us, a song. (Dylan Carlson, summer 2005)

So, what we’ve got here is an incredible show, played back in 2006, after they had re-gained steam with the release of their most excellent Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method). So, turn that stereo way up and enjoy the drones and doom of Earth.

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