Earth

Earth's Dylan Carlson, its lone constant member, inhabits a uniquely elastic role in rock. They virtually created the drone and ambient metal subgenres with their glacial, monolithic exercise Earth 2 in 1993. A series of albums through the rest of the decade cemented that reputation. Earth went on hiatus after 1996's Pentastar: In the Style of Demons due to Carlson's massive personal problems. After getting sober he re-formed the band with drummer Adrienne Davies, and in 2005 delivered the brittle yet melodic, spaghetti western-influenced Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method. The band built upon and morphed that record's schematics for a decade, exploring spaces between notes and lingering vibrations. 2017's Concrete Desert was a collaboration with the Bug, and the group has since ventured into soundtracks (2023's Even Hell Has Its Heroes) and remix projects (2026's Geometry of Murder: The Extra Capsular Extraction Inversions, with Black Noi$e).