basementbar.com: "Earth was formed in Olympia, WA in 1990 by guitarist Dylan Carlson. The band actually signed to Sub Pop during the grunge years and an early demo session even featured Kurt Cobain on vocals. However, Earth were a darker, noisier, far more underground beast than even the grungiest of the grunge bands. They pioneered the sort of nearly unlistenable, super-heavy distorted drone that is now practiced by bands like sunn0))) and other stoner doom bands. Their music was mostly instrumental, sparsely using vocals and mostly just concentrating on creating the slowest ambient distortion they could. The band released several albums and went through several members, eventually becoming basically the project of Carlson and session musicians. Carlson put the band on hiatus after 1996’s Pentastar (In the Style of Demons), which at that point was the most accessible Earth album." More

Links:

• Official homepage
  
• More info at southernlord.com
  
• More info at allmusic.com
  
• Interview from THE WIRE
  Downloads:
  
• from southernlord.com
  
• from the official homepage