Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Edition/Earth 2.23: Special Lower Frequency Mix
SUB POP
8/10, 7/10
WHEN discussing his music, Dylan Carlson sometimes jokes that he had one good idea: what if you took a Slayer riff, slowed it down, then played it over and over and over? Put like that it sounds so simple. But Carlson’s idea has not just sustained his band Earth for somewhere north of three decades, but inspired an entire genre – drone metal – that operates in his conceptual slipstream. With that initial brainwave, Carlson struck gold,
