Earth is a highly influential doom rock band from Washington, and whatever they sounded like prior to their fourth album, 'HEX: Or Printing in the Infernal Method' inaugurates a new era of highly distinctive, near-ambient drone music that's sure to divide doom fans. These monumentally slow compositions evoke a nostalgic, desolate sense of the Old West, borrowing the guitar style from Ennio Morricone's seminal Spaghetti Western soundtracks and taking the already-glacial tempo of doom metal to new extremes. An entirely instrumental and minimalistic album, this comes perilously close to country music on several occasions by incorporating the style effectively, as ...  Read the complete review