Middle age man and woman bang out slomo and stretched dinosaur Black Sabbath guitar rock, boiling it down to its epic minimalist essence of thick resonating and ringing metal guitar sludge: beautifully distorted electric guitar and drums; Dylan Carlson's workingman's guitar grandeur and Adrienne Davies' lumbering jazz on drums. Carlson calls his music "ambient metal," and credits La Monte Young, King Crimson, and Slayer as influences. So he's a sort of ambient metal, dark metal, drone metal aesthete, and the hypnotic grace of this performance feels humbly heroic. Carlson was also a friend of Kurt Cobain, and a close traumatized survivor of his suicide, and also a survivor of heroin addiction. I don't know a lot of Earth's ten albums going all the way back to 1993 but this abbreviated live performance from a couple years back, they joke about its brevity compared to their recording or concert performances, goes 21-22 minutes (and then the rest is an interview) but the music strikes me as instantly legendary in drone rock history. Budding drone rock enthusiasts take note.
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