Earth will be performing “The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull” in full at these shows. More information and tickets here.

OCT 10 Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
OCT 12 San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
OCT 12-14 Perris, CA @ Desert Daze

Interview by Gavin Brown via Echoes and Dust

Dylan Carlson has just released his wonderful and sprawling new solo album Conquistador. Gavin Brown caught up with him to hear all about the album and the story behind it as well as what Earth are up to next, the influence of folk music on his work and the influences and experiences he has had on his vast musical journey.

Interview and photos by Dominic Goodman via RCRD Magazine

I understand you moved around a lot growing up. Were you influenced musically by the places you visited or even just in a more general cultural way?

Yeah I mean my Dad worked for the department of defence, so I guess sort of an army brat in a weird way. Not in the military, I guess a child of the military industrial complex. As soon as we were born we left Seattle for Philadelphia and then from Philadelphia to New Mexico, then New Mexico to Germany and then we moved three times within Germany and then back to the States where we lived in Texas and then New Jersey and then back to Washington. My grandmother was Scottish. She came over to the States right after the war. We still had relatives living in Scotland so when we lived over in Germany we used to visit our relatives in Scotland quite a bit. My Dad worked for the military but wasn’t in the military, except for one year, so we didn’t live on bases, we lived out and about. We did go to U.S. schools but apart from that my parents definitely took advantage of the fact that we lived overseas and travelled a lot. Unlike, I remember there was a Sergeant that worked for my dad and he was proud of the fact that in his five years of being stationed overseas he had never left the base, never eaten outside the NCO club, didn’t know any German, you know, complete isolationist just waiting to get shipped back home basically. It was really strange, that kind of mentality of being somewhere that had so much to offer and just basically ignoring it.

INTERVIEW: Dylan Carlson: A Mediation Of The Southwest, Mexico & ‘Conquistador’

Full interview by Lucy Brady via New Noise Magazine

After a sojourn in the U.K. exploring the history and folklore of the British Isles while performing under the moniker drcarlsonalbion—a period that saw collaborations with Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior and The Hackney Lass, aka Rosie Knight—Dylan Carlson is now back in thoroughly American territory.

The Seattle musician’s latest offering, Conquistador—released April 27 via Sargent House—is a meditation on the legends of Mexico and the American Southwest, tracing the real-life account of Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

Phase two line-up for Desert Daze has been announced! Earth will be performing "The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull" in full joining a stellar line-up of bands including our own Chelsea Wolfe.
Tickets / info @ desertdaze.org

Guitarist Dylan Carlson talks about the western folklore influences behind the music on his first solo album, Conquistador – Out Now

Via BBC Radio 6 Music

Dylan Carlson’s newest album, ‘Conquistador’, is out TODAY. 

Listen, stream or purchase HERE
US tour info at thronesanddominions.com/dylan-carlson

Dylan Carlson’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “Even with repetition and a good riff, songs should have an arc”

Earth’s drone-rock legend on going solid-state and why you should never pay more than $600 for a guitar

Article by Jonathan Horsley via Music Radar

Adrienne Davies joined long-running Washington band Earth in 2001. She brought with her the requisite aptitude for slow tempos, and–over the course of several albums–developed a command of sonic nuance that perfectly complements and differentiates the band’s meditative compositions. Adrienne speaks to Joe about: growing up surrounded by brothers, stage fright, feelings of creative inadequacy, breaking through those feelings through serious woodshedding, recovering from a serious back and head injury, her love of Jim White…and kitties!

Audio interview available via The Trap Set

The band’s founder plays favorites with the many records in a long, productive career.

Full feature by TJ Kliebhan via Noisey

In Rank Your Records, we talk to artists who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference.

When you define a genre with your first record, where do you go from there? Earth’s frontman and only consistent member Dylan Carlson was living in Seattle during grunge’s reign over popular music. Being a young contrarian, Carlson decided to outright reject every trend that defined what was around him at the time. To his label’s prediction, Carlson’s cerebral brand of engulfing drone metal was not an immediate hit. With Earth, Carlson was never looking to top the charts, participate in a movement, or even start one. He was looking to do something different and do it well.