Claude says:Dylan Carlson's Earth, rooted in Olympia since 1989, pioneered drone metal with the 75-minute feedback monument Earth 2 before dissolving into hiatus and heroin, then resurfacing in the 2000s with a quieter, countrified sound. This demo — likely from the early era — is all slow-motion distortion and minimal structure, a blueprint for ambient metal before anyone called it that. You had two stray plays in 2008 that didn't click, then it took hold properly in January 2010, with "Jesus In Boxes" and "New Song" anchoring the rotation.