Earth: A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra-Capsular Extraction | CD review

(Southern Lord)Before Dylan Carson surrendered fully to the slow, feedback-drenched, single-note meditations of Earth 2, thus creating the drone metal blueprint that influenced the likes of Boris, Sunn O))) and Khanate, he first busied himself deconstructing heavy metal as a whole. Although this first Earth recording from 1990 has been cannibalised for EPs and bootlegs over the years, it's still startling how contemporary it sounds. Boiling down the tenets of rock music to a primordial ooze of c...

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