The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull - Earth

Earth continue to play their Western-tinged drone doom rock on this year's release, but the style has subtly changed since the days of 'HEX' to favour a more bluesy and, overall, more optimistic approach. The songs are still extended, minimal, repetitive compositions based around seriously sloooooow guitar melodies, but the atmosphere is less depressing and much more uplifting this time round, with only a couple of exceptions in the form of later songs such as 'Omens and Portents II: Carrion Crow' that return to the old, darker style. The piano comes to the fore in 'Engine of Ruin' to add some variety, but this is still essentially an album geared towards ...  Read the complete review