Commemorating thirty trips around the sun as one of metal's most monolithic
bands, Earth have announced plans to release their ninth studio album, Full Upon
Her Burning Lips. A purge of the embellishment and panache from previous
releases, Full Upon Her Burning Lips intimates Earth's commitment to the
minimalism of their primordial days.
Deconstructing the tried-and-true dynamic consisting of Dylan Carlson on guitar
and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion, Full Upon Her Burning Lips
taps into the Platonic ideal of Earth—an incarnation of the long running band
bolstered by the au¬thority of purpose, where every note and every strike on
the drum kit carries the weight of the world. In addition to scaling back the
flourishes of their hulking, drone-driven opuses, Full Upon Her Burning Lips was
composed sans narrative, relying instead on their col¬lective subconscious to
hone in on the overarching muse as the songs developed.
The record was engineered, mixed, and mastered by longtime associate Mell
Dettmer at Studio Soli. Showcasing Carlson's sepia-toned Bakersfield Sound
guitars and Davies' death knell drums, Full Upon Her Burning Lips mines for the
expressive, nuanced, an tonally rich components of Earth's arsenal of sound.
And indeed, anyone that's followed Earth on their journey will bask in the
unadulterated hums, throbs, and reverberations conjured by Carlson and Davies.
“I feel like this is the fullest expression and purest distillation of what
Earth does since I re-started the band,” Carlson says in reflection of Full
Upon Her Burning Lips. And indeed, anyone that's followed Earth on their
journey will bask in the unadulterated hums, throbs, and reverberations conjured
by Carlson and Davies.