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There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Earth is an American musical group based in Olympia, Washington, formed in 1989 and led by the guitarist Dylan Carlson. Earth's music is nearly all instrumental, and can be divided into two distinct stages. Their early work is characterized by distortion, droning, minimalism, and lengthy, repetitive song structures. The band's later output reduces the distortion while incorporating elements of country, jazz rock, and folk. Earth is recognized as a pioneer of drone metal, with the band's Earth 2 being regarded as a milestone of the genre. Dylan Carlson founded the band in 1989 along with Slim Moon and Greg Babior, taking the title Earth from Black Sabbath's original name. Carlson has remained the core of the band's line-up throughout its changes. Outside of the underground music world, Carlson is perhaps best known for having been a close friend of grunge icon Kurt Cobain, as well as the person who purchased the gun for Kurt before he died. Cobain sang lead vocals in the song Divine and Bright, from a demo included on the re-release of the live album Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars. Earth 2 was described as a milestone by Terrorizer's Dayal Patterson, which he described as a three-track, 75 minute deluge of feedback and distorted guitars that marked the blueprint for what Carlson at the time coined 'ambient metal'. The band went on hiatus after the release of Pentastar: In the Style of Demons due to Carlson's personal problems,...

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