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There's always been stark, contrasting ideas present in the music of Earth, from something as minuscule as song titles to the now-released full-length 'Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1.' "I always have my ear out for those type of oppositional things," guitarist Dylan Carlson told Noisecreep when asked about where the delightfully-conflicting title came from...

Known as the champions of drone and the forebearers to such acts as Sunn O))), the riffs of Dylan Carlson and Earth have gone well beyond just being called influential. Carlson's mark on metal's slowest -- and most perplexing -- of subgenres can never be fully understood...

"I don't view us as dark as many people think we are," Earth guitarist Dylan Carlson told Noisecreep. Though no one has ever called the drone forefather a writer of happy songs, a level of hope has clearly made its mark within the instrumental band's more recent work...

It may last just under two weeks, but the upcoming West Coast sojourn Wolves in the Throne Room and Earth will make up for what it lacks in length with deafening decibels. Cellist Lori Goldston will open the tour instrumentally and she also performs as a part of Earth's live lineup on this tour...

"Damn it, we missed Lichens," this writer grumbled to her companions as we finally got to Johnny Brenda's, one of Fishtown's nicer venues and home to more hipsters than you can shake an ironically-angled stick at. The bar downstairs hummed contentedly as the regulars settled in to while their nights away over warm PBR and overpriced 'local drafts,' but this cozy scene held nothing for u

Before the music started, smoke machines pushed out enough fog to fill Brooklyn Masonic Temple Sept. 22. The same venue where Repulsion played 'Horrified' in its entirety, sold out for the biggest doom show of 2009: Sunn 0))) with Earth, Pelican and Eagle Twin...

One month before Pelican release their fourth album, 'What We All Come to Need,' the Chicago instrumental heavyweights join label mates Sunn 0))), Earth and Eagle Twin for a show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in New York City. This veritable Southern Lord Records showcase is part of the Blackened Music Series, but it effectively previews Pelican's new songs before their headlining tour in October

When Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley formed Sunn 0))) in 1998, they had no idea that their genre-defying brand of experimental doom would exist over a decade later. But as their seventh album, 'Monoliths and Dimensions,' draws closer to a release (May 26), Anderson says they didn't necessarily care about leaving their mark on music, either...