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Earth (American band)

Index Earth (American band)

Earth is an American musical group based in Olympia, Washington, formed in 1989 and led by the guitarist Dylan Carlson. Earth's music is nearly all instrumental, and can be divided into two distinct stages. Their early work is characterized by distortion, droning, minimalism, and lengthy, repetitive song structures. The band's later output reduces the distortion while incorporating elements of country, jazz rock, and folk. Earth is recognized as a pioneer of drone metal, with the band's Earth 2 being regarded as a milestone of the genre. [1]

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Adrienne Davies

Adrienne Davies is the current drummer and percussionist of the drone metal band Earth. Davies is credited as drummer on several of Earth's albums. They range from Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword (2005) and for drums, percussion, and wind chimes on Hex (Or Printing in the Infernal Method) (2005). She has since played on its album Hibernaculum, as well as Altar—the Sunn O))) and Boris collaboration—which also features other members of Earth. She was also the drummer for their most recent album, Primitive and Deadly, released in 2014.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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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.

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Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II is the seventh full-length studio album by the band Earth, released on February 6, 2012, through Southern Lord Records.

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Baritone guitar

The baritone guitar is a guitar with a longer scale length, typically a larger body, and heavier internal bracing, so it can be tuned to a lower pitch.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bill Frisell

William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American guitarist, composer and arranger.

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Blast First

Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Drone metal

Drone metal or drone doom is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music.

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Drone music

Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a subgenre of minimal music that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones.

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Drowned in Sound

Drowned in Sound, sometimes abbreviated to DiS, is a UK-based music webzine financed by artist management company Silentway.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Duane Eddy

Duane Eddy (born April 26, 1938) is an American guitarist.

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Dylan Carlson

Dylan Carlson (born March 12, 1968) is the lead guitarist, lead singer, and only constant member of the drone doom group Earth, and the main contributor to his solo project Drcarlsonalbion.

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Earth 2 (album)

Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version is the first full-length studio album by the drone metal band Earth.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Electric piano

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard.

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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player.

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Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method

Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method is the fourth full-length studio album by the drone doom band Earth.

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Instrumental rock

Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Joe Preston (bassist)

Joe Preston (born 1969) is an American rock music bassist and a former band member of Earth, 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. In 2007, he joined Harvey Milk in the studio for the recording of Life... The Best Game in Town and toured with them during their 2008 US and European tours. He is the uncle of actor Dominic Janes.

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Jonas Haskins

Jonas Haskins is the former bass player for the drone metal band Earth.

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Karl Blau

Karl Blau is an American indie rock and folk musician based in Anacortes, Washington, United States, and a member of the Knw-Yr-Own/K Records collective.

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Kevin Martin (British musician)

Kevin Martin is a musician, record producer and journalist, often known under his recording alias The Bug from England, UK.

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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List of ambient music artists

This is a list of ambient music artists.

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Lori Goldston

Lori Goldston is an American cellist and composer.

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Melvins

The Melvins are an American rock band that formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington.

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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Mute Records

Mute Records (simply known and stylized as mute) is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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No Quarter Records

No Quarter Records is an American independent record label in Philadelphia that was founded in 2001 by Mike Quinn.

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Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,479 as of the 2010 census, making it the 24th largest city in the state. The city borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south. Olympia is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. Olympia is located southwest of Seattle, the largest city in the state of Washington.

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Or Records

Or Records (sometimes capitalized OR Records after their logo) is a small British independent record label, which was established in 1998 and based in London.

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Pentangle

Pentangle (or The Pentangle) are a British folk-jazz band with an eclectic mix of folk, jazz, blues and folk rock influences.

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Pentastar: In the Style of Demons

Pentastar: In the Style of Demons is the third full-length studio album by the drone doom band Earth.

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Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions

Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions is the second full-length studio album by the drone band Earth.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Primitive and Deadly

Primitive and Deadly is the eighth studio album by American musical group Earth.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Roy Buchanan

Roy Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues musician.

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Slim Moon

Slim Moon (b. Matthew Moon on October 15, 1967) is the founder of the independent music label, Kill Rock Stars.

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Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord is an American heavy metal record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson.

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt.

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Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars

Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars is a live album by Earth, originally released in 1995 by Blast First Records.

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Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) (pronounced "sun") is an American experimental metal band from Seattle, Washington that formed in 1998. The band is known for an extremely heavy sound that blends diverse genres including drone, doom metal, black metal, dark ambient, and noise rock, and for very loud live performances. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band was formed by two core members: Stephen O'Malley (also of Khanate and Burning Witch) and Greg Anderson (of Goatsnake and Engine Kid).

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Terrorizer (magazine)

Terrorizer is an extreme music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd.

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The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull is the fifth full-length studio album by the band Earth.

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The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis.

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Thrones (band)

Thrones is the solo project of bassist Joe Preston.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

Tiny Mix Tapes (also TMT or tinymixtapes) is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wurlitzer electric piano

The Wurlitzer electronic piano, commonly called the Wurlitzer electric piano was an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to the early 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(American_band)

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