of a new album.

Released February 22nd, 2011 from Southern Lord Records, we welcome Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light: I. Produced and recorded at Avast Studios in Seattle,Washington by Stuart Hallerman (notable engineer behind Earth 2), this new album features the following line-up.
ARTH IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE ARRIVAL

Adrienne Davies trap kit and percussives Dylan Carlson electric guitar and devices Lori Goldston cello and devices Karl Blau electric bass guitar

Download the album Order the album, hoodie, and shirt combos at SouthernLord.com now!

UPCOMING TOURS OF NORTH AMERICA

Earth is home from a fantastic 5-week tour of Europe. Thanks to everyone that came out to all of the shows and extra thanks to our fantastic driver and Tour Manager Rogier. We are getting ready for several short tours in North America. Earth will be joined by the amazing band PAON on a tour of the Northeastern United States in just a few weeks. In July we will team up with Angelo Spencer et les Hauts Sommets for the West Coast dates and then tour the Southeast in September with Mount Eerie. In addition to these tours, Earth will perform with Portishead at Asbury Park in October at the festival I'll be Your Mirror. Southeast American Tour with Mount Eerie: 9/08/2011 Grey Eagle - Asheville, NC w/ Mount Eerie 9/09/2011 King's Baracade - Raleigh, NC w/ Hopscotch Fest 9/10/2011 Caladonia - Athens, GA w/ Mount Eerie 9/11/2011 The Earl - Atlana, GA w/ Mount Eerie 9/12/2011 Flying Monkey Arts Center Hunstville, AL w/ Mount Eerie 9/13/2011 Bottletree - Birmingham, AL w/ Mount Eerie 9/14/2011 One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA w/ Mount Eerie and Thou

9/16/2011 Hi Tone Cafe - Memphis, TN w/ Mount Eerie 9/17/2011 The End - Nashville, TN w/ Mount Eerie West Coast American Tour: 7/13/2011 Doug Fir Lounge - Portland, OR w/Angelo Spencer and Wyrd Visions 7/14/2011 The Northern - Olympia, WA - w/Angelo Spencer, Broken Water and Wyrd Visions 7/16/2011 What the Heck fest? - Anacortes,WA 7/21/2011 Catalyst Atrium - Santa Cruz, CA w/Angelo Spencer 7/22/2011 Slim's - San Francisco, CA w/Angelo Spencer and Whirr 7/23/2011 Echo Plex - Los Angeles, CA w/Angelo Spencer 7/24/2011 The Casbah - San Diego, CA w/Angelo Spencer 8/02/2011 Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA w/Tiny Vipers and Angelo Spencer 8/05/2011 Shakedown - Bellingham, WA w/Cold Lake and the Narrows Midwest/East Coast American Tour: 6/08/2011 Mayne Stage - Chicago, IL w/ Paon 6/09/2011 Mad Planet - Milwaukee, WI w/ Paon 6/10/2011 Magic Stick - Detroit, MI w/ Paon 6/11/2011 The Strut - Kalamazoo, MI w/ Paon 6/12/2011 Grog Shop Cleveland, OH w/ Paon 6/13/2011 Johnny Brendas - Philadelphia, PA w/ Paon 6/14/2011 Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT w/ Paon 6/15/2011 Middle East Downstairs - Boston, MA w/ Paon 6/16/2011 Le Poisson Rouge - New York City, NY w/ Paon 6/17/2011 Ottobar - Baltimore, MD w/ Paon 6/18/2011 Braddock Carnegie Library Braddock, PA w/ Paon 6/19/2011 Southgate House - Newport, KY w/ Paon More dates here.

ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

Earth will play an album release show for Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light: I in Seattle, Washington.

March 3rd The Tractor Tavern EARTH MOUNT EERIE LOW HUMS 9PM. 21+ $12. Buy Tickets

UPCOMING TOUR DATES

on a 5 week European Spring Tour with Sabbath Assembly, a psychedelic religious rock band from New York, currently on a "quest set
ARTH WILL BE EMBARKING

forth by The Process Church of the Final Judgment to conquer fear with love, rePROCESSing their hymns for the current generation." Several dates have been announced. Please check back as we will be announcing more soon. View the Tour Dates and Purchase Tickets

NEW EARTH SHIRTS HAVE ARRIVED

Order your new Earth shirts here.

INTERVIEW WITH DYLAN CARLSON, EXCERPT

by Lori Goldston November 29, 2010 (view the complete interview)

when you made Extracapsular Extraction. Those early Earth records are so different from each other, and the songs are different from each other. They came out on Sub Pop and seem so odd in that universe, but then if you think about them in terms of weird European experimental rock records they make way more sense.
O YOU HAD THESE EUROPEAN RECORDS IN YOUR HEAD

DC: That album, to me, is divided: theres the experimental rock stuff, and theres a metal riff, its just slowed down. Orobouris is Broken, if you speed it up its practically a Slayer riff. LG: Absolutely! DC: The two poles I swung between. LG: But already with that record, the textures are so extreme and expressive; they seem so unusual for that time. More records do that now the timbre is so dense and emotional. The timbre has a lot of emotional content! Where did that come from? DC: I dont know. Maybe because of that time in your life, youre more volatile or something. No matter what youre doing, how conceptualized it is, that comes out. LG: You have more of that dramatic, adolescent energy. DC: And especially as rock musicians, youre allowed to be adolescent for the rest of your life! To me the magic about music and instruments is that somehow this interface between this human being and this technological device, that the human stlll comes out. Theoretically its just a finger and a string and a vibration, so why can you tell Thats this guy and Thats that guy? LG: Its very mysterious. So youve had this band for a long time, and youve been interested in and listening to all these different things. Some stylistic shifts are connected to what youre thinking about and listening to, but a lot has stayed the same. DC: I always preferred the slower tempos and longer songs. When I get into something, whatever Im into at the time just consumes me for however long Im into it. LG: Once you start playing a song youre just really into it, for a while?

DC: Obsessive, but with a long arc. Whatever I get into, I get into that, to the exclusion of everything else. But when I come out of it its like, how do I integrate it into what I was doing? It probably doesnt its probably all in my head that it connects. LG: You mean within a song or within an album? DC: Song, or interest, or album. LG: You could say the same thing within the lifespan of the band, too. Fast forwarding to the new album: was there something that ties together those songs for you? Was there something youd been thinking about or listening to? DC: I with think both the songs, which are more constructed, and the improvised stuff, to me anyway they reflect Fairport Convention, or the Pentangle, or Tinariwen. Pentangle especially, because they took British folk but brought in elements of jazz and blues and integrated it, so it just sounds like Pentangle. If you want to you can go through it and go Okay, theres the jazzy part, but it doesnt sound like that. LG: It doesnt sound contrived. DC: Yeah. But I definitely think theres the Earth thing going on. LG: Whats stayed the same and whats changed [since Earth started in 1989]? It feels very additive, it shifts around, or the percentages shift around, the texture maybe moves slightly one way or another, but its still easy hear the droney La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Can stuff in whats happening now. DC: Some people are like Oh, you guys have changed so much. I go back and I listen, and maybe just because its me; everything sounds continuous. None of the changes have been that dramatic to me. But people act like Every album is completely different! LG: It all sounds like Earth. DC: The way I look at is theres a thing I do with the slow tempos and long songs. To me each record is going back in influence. At first it was prog rock and heavy metal, then more classic rock, then blues and country and now folk music. Because I view music as this continuum; no one invented anything! For one thing I think it misses the point entirely. Who cares who invented it? Again, its that

authenticity thing: who was the authentic first? Thats not how things are, how anything is. Its all a continuum of development. Its music. Its just music. As long as humans were conscious, I think theres been music. Thats my personal take. It just developed this way here and that way there. People dont sit in one spot, people move around and mix and share ideas and technologies and fuck on another and have kids. This whole idea of purity and authenticity is bizarre. Its some weird construct. I feel like Im going back, and integrating earlier versions of this continuum into what I do, becoming aware of earlier things. I hope Im getting better at playing; the idea is that Im getting better at what I do, integrating earlier and earlier sources. Thats the difference, not a radical departure. The three main things have been the same: length, drones and tempos. The new music is less chordy. Before we had all these chords, there were guitar chords and piano chords, guitar solos and piano solos. It was very dense. Now the guitars melodic, the cellos melodic and then theres a rhythm section, so its more LG: It has more forward motion and less of a blocky, vertical construction. DC: Yeah, to me were less Wagnerian and more Debussy-like now. PDF of the interview view the complete interview

We have been blessed with a massive offering from the gods! Southern Lord Records

with two bass players, a guitarist, and a drum machine. With two friends to help with vocals, Kelly Canary of Dickless and a certain singer of a soon-to-be well-known pop band, the group decamped to Smegma Studios in Northeast Portland, Oregon. The home and studio of Mike Lastra,
HE LINEUP OF EARTH HAD FINALLY STABILIZED

long time member of Smegma and recorder of many Portland legends (such as Poison Idea). Dylan Carlson got the idea for the original artwork from a series of lecture records on diabetes and a book about eye surgery. It was released on Sub-Pop in October 1991. By that time, Joe Preston was in the Melvins, and earth was working on new material that

would become EARTH 2. After Joe Preston left the Melvins, the masters were taken from Smegma Studios and used for bootleg 7-inch singles. Thus the album has never been heard in its entirety as it was meant to be. Here is the first earth recorded fulllength, before time, theft, and EARTH 2 changed things. from the liner notes A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction is now available on CD and LP. Visit the Southern Lord site