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Drone metal began in America’s Pacific Northwest with Earth, whose 1993 debut Earth 2 slowed Black Sabbath-style riffs down to a rumbling low-frequency crawl. Frontman Dylan Carlson broke up the band in the mid-90s, and Sunn 0))) formed as an Earth tribute act in 1998. That band’s Stephen O’Malley is fond of noting that the sun revolves around the earth.
When Carlson reactivated Earth in the early-00s, the sound he had created was becoming a respected sub-genre. But Earth’s second iteration was also an evolution, completing the move away from the ascetic purity of the drone that had begun on...
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