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  <a href="/earth/blog/3662361/kerrang-interviews-earth-the-prime-minister-of-belgium-took-our-backstage-passes">Kerrang! Interviews Earth: “THE PRIME MINISTER OF BELGIUM TOOK OUR BACKSTAGE PASSES!”</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/164173/843a4d7c71b9e478f815ea83c9fbfaaad8fc2949/original/screen-shot-2015-03-26-at-11-39-57-am.png?1427395247" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /><img src="//www.kerrang.com/wp-content/uploads/Temples_Festival.jpg?455978" class="size_orig justify_none border_" /><br><br><strong>Kerrang! gets ready for Temples Festival with underground legends <a contents="Earth" data-link-label="Home" data-link-type="page" href="http://www.thronesanddominions.com/home" target="_blank">Earth</a>.</strong>
<p>It’s only a month and a bit until <a contents="Temples Festival" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.templesfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank">Temples Festival</a> hits Bristol! Gathering together all sorts of weird, wonderful and downright heavy sounds from every dark corner of the underground, it’s the UK’s weightiest gathering bar none. There’s the furious hardcore of <strong>Converge</strong>, <strong>Nails</strong> and <strong>Trap Them</strong>, bong-rattling stoner vibes from <strong>Goatsnake</strong>, <strong>Weedeater</strong>, <strong>Bongzilla</strong> and <strong>Sea Bastard</strong>, there’s <strong>Triptykon</strong>, <strong>Bolzer</strong>, <strong>Grave Miasma</strong> and <strong>Vallenfyre</strong> bringing death metal darkness, and then there’s headliners <strong>Earth</strong> and <strong>Sunn O)))</strong> bringing <em>loooooooooong droooooning</em> notes.</p>
<p>So, to get us in the mood, we hooked up with Earth frontman <a contents="Dylan Carlson" data-link-label="Guitar" data-link-type="page" href="http://www.thronesanddominions.com/guitar" target="_blank">Dylan Carlson</a> to chat about Temples, festival etiquette, and dignitaries nicking your passes.</p>
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<p><strong>Hi Dylan. How are you doing at the moment?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Dylan Carlson:</strong> “I’m doing really good. The tour’s being going really well, the album’s been going really well (laughs). And we’re excited, cos we were originally just playing Temples and now it looks like we’re headlining! I’ve heard good things about Temples, and Bristol’s always been a good city for us. And we’re playing on the same day as Voivod! I haven’t seen them since the (mid-80s) War And Pain tour so I’m very excited! I know Converge and Sunn 0))) are the other headliners, and I’m sure there are some other people playing that I like but I haven’t had a chance to look at the (full) line-up yet! (laughs)”</p>
<p><strong>How’s it been playing the new material – has that made a difference to the tour?</strong></p>
<p>“I really like playing the new stuff. I mean, obviously, we’re one of those bands of hoary age that must play the older songs – I’m not going to call them hits, because they weren’t! We always try and put some old songs in the set cos, y’know, I’m a music fan too and when you see someone you’ve wanted to see for a long time, (you don’t want to come away saying) ‘They didn’t play the song I like!’ In fact, I just had that experience with Uriah Heep – it was a great show but they didn’t play Stealin’! But I guess you can’t please everyone all the time.”<br> </p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/71nROr1yLgI" width="420"></iframe><br><strong>It seems like you tour pretty regularly these days. How is touring now compared to back in the ’90s?</strong>
<p>“I didn’t really tour in the 90s, because I was… (pauses, then chuckles) not capable of it. We mostly did one-off (shows). There was one disastrous tour of Texas, that I’m surprised we made it out of! So we’ve toured as lot more since we came back, obviously just because I have my shit together, and I love touring. It’s funny, when I first started Earth I was really into the recording bit, not so much the live thing, and now it’s switched places, where I wanna hit the road and play.”</p>
<p><strong>I noticed an England sticker on your guitar. Do you have a particular affinity with Britain?</strong></p>
<p>“Yes, I do. It’s definitely my favourite country and I just married a Londoner and I’m hoping to move over at some point, if Her Majesty’s Government will have me (laughs)!”</p>
<p><strong>The new album’s done really well. How does it feel after so many years of struggle?</strong></p>
<p>“It feels really good. It totally took me by surprise. It wasn’t expected or calculated, you know what I mean? I mean, obviously every dude that starts a rock band has that secret little guy in the back of his head going ‘Yeah, you’re gonna be a rock star’, but luckily I had a reality filter and I knew from the get-go that we were not going to be (stars). But yeah, it’s been a long trip, and it’s been worth it. I’m surprised, and humble, and grateful.”</p>
<p><strong>Do you do anything different for a festival set?</strong></p>
<p>“I think for this one we’re gonna have to (laughs uproariously)! I’m not sure what yet, but I’m thinking of something. Normally, in the past, a festival has just been a date on the tour. I’ve only ever been to Roadburn for an hour! We don’t normally get a chance to hang out with everyone, but this time I think we will.”</p>
<p><strong>Have you had any memorable festival experiences?</strong></p>
<p>“The Roadburn we did in 2011 was really good. And we played Dour festival (in Belgium) and this guy cut in front of us and took our passes – and it turned out it was the Prime Minister of Belgium, which was really weird (laughs)! He just looked like some normal middle aged dude.”</p>
<p><strong>If you had to explain to someone who had never heard Earth before, what to expect from your set at Temples, what would you say?</strong></p>
<p>“I’ve always described Earth as a loud, slow, weird rock and roll band, and that’s pretty much what we do! Although maybe now I’d say loud, slow, weird hard rock or loud, slow, weird heavy metal (laughs)!”</p><img src="//www.kerrang.com/wp-content/uploads/Temples_Festival_2015.jpg?455978" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /><br><br>(via <a contents="Kerrang!" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.kerrang.com/29805/earth-prime-minister-belgium-took-backstage-passes/" target="_blank">Kerrang!</a>)</div>
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<p>Dylan Carlson has this joke. It’s one that’s been parroted for over a decade now.</p>
<p>“I joke I only had one good idea in my lifetime and have decided to run with it.” He laughs earnestly, winter winds bayonetting at his lungs as he relieves the catarrh from his throat. Carlson is currently travelling with his bandmates Adrienne Davies and Dom McGreevy to the north of England, a place he treasures for its folklore and sardonic humour. There’s this giddy movement to his delivery. “Obviously I’m as happy as pig in shit to be back in the UK,” he cracks another chesty cackle.</p>
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<p>As the founding member of doom drone devisors Earth, Carlson’s ‘one good idea’ is currently traversing from London to Newcastle with multiple appearances between. The shows, championing the group’s eighth studio album Primitive and Deadly, are sell-outs. Starting at Islington Assembly Hall, Earth’s performance was captured as a live stream for Boiler Room. One shot dissolves into the next in a whirring delirium as Carlson slouches back into his music’s prolonged sustain. The audience hardly move, put under by Earth’s amplification. “We brought three guitar heads with us on this tour and blew two in Birmingham. I’ve really really missed playing loud” Carlson says, knowingly.<br><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="XJ0CyOVTSV8" data-video-thumb-url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/XJ0CyOVTSV8/0.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XJ0CyOVTSV8?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="420" width="640" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>It’s particularly rare for a band like Earth to have the luxury of a second chance. Their legacy can be partitioned into two polemic eras. Formed in the grisly bosom of the Seattle grunge scene in the early 90s, Carlson’s first era of Earth was a clamorous slobbering of elongated instrumental fuzz stretched out into fragmented riffs that would repeat and repeat and repeat. Like the hallucinatory arcs Earth’s music was trapped in, the majority of this time Carlson spent doped in a storm of narcotics. His criminal activity was habitual. Wrongly famed for aiding his best friend, Kurt Cobain, in his suicide (he gave Cobain the shotgun which was subsequently used to end the frontman’s life on the pretence that it was only to be used in times of defence), Carlson’s career was ebbing away. After the canonical three-track debut album Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency was followed by two ill-received records between 1995 to 1996, Carlson succumbed to a sonic oblivion, disbanding Earth and tumbling off the radar for nine years.</p>
<p>Then came Hex, Earth’s 2005 return. While Carlson was in the wilderness Earth’s influence had grown far, inspiring a musical movement, including being more or less the sole formative influence of the now-adored Sunn O))) – but his newfound direction was starkly different. The devilish repetition was still intact, but Carlson’s guitar work had manifested into something far more shamanistic. Pocketed influences of Ennio Morricone and Neil Young were more overt while the previous nods to minimalist prime movers La Monte Young and Terry Riley were more pronounced. Carlson reflects on this time with a chastity of gratitude, “There are a lot of people who established us on our second run after the release of Hex. Since then, all of our records have been received very positively.</p>
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<img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/164173/baa1e47538c62989e61d712b57386fb4f0994e8b/original/screen-shot-2015-04-02-at-12-51-01-pm.png?1428004293" class="size_orig justify_center border_" /><p>“We’ve toured a lot more, we’re much more of a present, functioning band than during the first era. We just weren’t popular. It’s weird now, because so many people talk about Earth 2 as a seminal piece of work. But the first pressing of that record was only 2000 copies and it took three years to sell. It was not universally acclaimed.” Carlson begins to laugh again – now, with the success of Primitive and Deadly, the band have amassed a reputation surpassing what anyone could have speculated. “Our latest record charted.<br>I can’t really fathom that. When I got the news that the record sold more than all the Earth records combined in the first week alone, I was speechless.”</p>
<p>But despite Primitive and Deadly’s surprisingly accessible heavy rock marauding, Billboard chart climbing is not what drives Earth Mk II. “I knew from day one as soon as A&amp;R men started crawling out of Seattle’s woodwork we were never going to be a major label band. That was not our route. But the success of this record is overwhelming.</p>
<p>“I’ve always felt like when you’re recording an album, you’re recording a specific moment in time and its set of variables will never be the same again. And it’s the same with live shows. It’s us and this audience who are creating this moment in time that will never happen again in the same way. It’s this moment of possibility and transcendence that doesn’t occur every time. The best shows for me are when I almost don’t even know that they’ve happened. I start and suddenly it’s over. Those are the shows that matter.”<br><br>Like last December’s unexpected Ninja Tune collaboration Boa/Cold with fellow low-end fetishist Kevin Martin of The Bug, Primitive and Deadlystands as proof of Carlson’s fearless thrust to evolve and better his previous works. Yet the album hasn’t been met with total esteem from Earth formalists. Amongst the throwback hard riffing of 70s heavy metal and the sludgey drone nuanced by the likes of Neurosis and The Melvins, are the occasional inclusion of vocals – a trait seldom utilised in Earth’s aural arsenal. “I always thought of vocals in a different way than most bands. It’s more like if we use them, how should we use them? I really love what Wolves in the Throne Room did with Jessica [Kennedy] on Celestial Lineage. For Earth, vocals need to be instruments rather than the cheaper front-and-centre thing.<br><br>“It’s funny because a lot of people that dig us are just into noise. And that stuff is cool. Maybe I’m showing my age, but I don’t think doing loud or extreme music means you have to sacrifice melody or a riff. Songs can still have arcs and development. To me, everything is focused around the riff. It’s the riff you want to hear over and over again. My influences for Primitive and Deadly were early riff-based groups like Scorpions and Diamond Head. Bands that could make the similar dissimilar.”<br><br><span style="text-decoration: inherit;"><img src="//images.zoogletools.com/u/164173/3bab79464cc5db2fd4dc6cd5a8899425d686b5fd/large/dylan-crac-mag.jpg?1428005169" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></span></p>
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