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Earth - Legacy of Dissolution
My adventures in underground heavy metal continue... Earth is essentially a one man band comprised of Dylan Carlson who wrote and performed songs that could be defined as pure metal, he developed a style that took the concept of the riff to stretching point where quite often all that was left was an unholy, fearful drone. I haven't heard much of his original work, but it lives on with the 'Earth tribute band' Sunn0))) and this remix album, although maybe re-interpretation album is a better way of describing it as a couple of the 'remixers' pretty much leave the source material alone (apparently, as I say I haven't heard the original stuff). Mogwai kick things off with a frankly terrifying 12 minute long drone speckled with digital debris, Russell Haswell continues down the digital route putting the riff of Tibetan Quaaludes through some sort of digital torture machine. Things get a bit more pleasant after that, Jim O'Rourke produces a nice pleasant drone piece, Autechre do fuck all and Justin Broadrick produces a nice pleasant Jesu-esque remix. The disc finishes off with SunnO))) with some good old fashioned doooooooom! Which is nice, I'm posting the Autechre remix, even though they've done pretty much nothing, it's a s fine an example of sabbath-esque riffing as you'll hear this year.

MP3: Coda Maestoso in F(flat) Minor