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At the Helm Presents… EARTH | STEBMO
🌋 APRIL 20 🌋 Doors 7PM | Show 8PM | $25 | 18+/Under 18 with Legal Guardian
At the Helm Presents… EARTH – The Evening Redness in the West Tour Celebrating 20 Years of Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
EARTH
Over the course of their thirty trips around the sun, Earth has remained diligent in their commitment to monolithic minimalism. The sonic vocabulary may have changed—from their early years churning out seismic drone metal on albums like Earth 2 (1993) to the dusty Morricone-tinged comeback album Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005) to the meditative rock approach of Primitive and Deadly (2014)—but the underlying principle of austerity and restraint remains a constant.
Celebrating 20 year of Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method – Marking a new direction the band would follow in years to come, Hex stands in stark contrast to Earth’s previous works. While retaining the extremely heavy doom/drone metal song structure of epic riffs over simple repetitive drum beats, the guitar was inflected with country influences that favored a cleaner reverb-heavy tone layered with acoustic instruments over the band’s previous predilection for distortion. The press release cited diverse influences such as Ennio Morricone, Billy Gibbons, Neil Young’s soundtrack to the movie Dead Man, country musicians Duane Eddy, Merle Haggard, and Roy Buchanan. Carlson indicated that he viewed this shift as part of a continuum rather than a categorical change in direction
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