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Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method | 
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| Artist: Earth
Label: Southern Lord
Buy New: $13.98
New (24) Used (8) Collectible (1) from $7.87
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
MPN: 48
UPC: 808720004823
EAN: 0808720004823
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| Tracks:
| • | Mirage | | • | Land Of Some Other Order | | • | The Dire And Ever Circling Wolves | | • | Left In The Desert | | • | Lens Of Unrectified Night | | • | An Inquest Concerning Teeth | | • | Raiford (The Felon Wind) | | • | The Dry Lake | | • | Tethered To The Polstar |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Fifth official studio album and first in nine years. Band leader Dylan Carlson is regarded as an innovator in ambient, experimental, drone, doom circles. Known mostly for the Black Sabbath-meets-Melvins played at 16 RPM sound, they branch out here, incorporating new influences and continuing to innovate. Bold, vital, and essential.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 The windmills, 6:30 am.... February 26, 2008
comedreja (depths of the west)
and I'm going 110 mph but it seems like 40. This was my go to disc as I travelled the 45 minutes to Palm Springs everday. If you like the idea of listenting to country sans vocals slowed waay down with touches of Morricone thrown in for good measure then this is the disc for you.
 APOCALYPTIC WESTERN February 22, 2008
J. H. Infante (Guadalajara, Ja, Mex)
Earth has left the drone and the low guitar and bass sounds to allow this time slow and atmospherical western strings, the whole environment the sounds of Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method sugests are desertical, grey in times, dry, nostalgic for old american days, charming, captivating and serene, far from the heaviness of previous Earth works and less complicated in instrumental arrangments, of course I hope they return in coming albums to their basic sound but this is a great experimental and conceptuall release, Dylan Carson have made of Earth a cult band in the field of progresive drone, doom , country and western.
HM
emptiness moving in shadows May 24, 2007
Jon (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Imagine yourself drifting across an open plain with nothing for miles around. The dust kicks at your heels. The silence is like a blanket.
You see a barn in the distance. You make your way towards it. The farmyard is deserted. You're hoping to find water.
Once in there you realise the scrubland was nothing compared to infinity. The barn opens into other worlds and the farmyard is a station for ghosts.
There is no going back. You resign yourself to staying. Night closes as you disappear into the sand. Somewhere a dust storm is rising.
If fungus was tumbleweed May 19, 2006
Scott Riley (San Francisco, CA United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Being familiar with Earth is only mildly useful in hearing "Hex" for the first time. While "Hex" normally refers to Pennsylvania Dutch symbolism used on buildings (barns) to ward off bad or encourage good, this record is just as easily the backdrop to a desert you can't even dream of.
If you've traveled (or live in) southern parts of UT, AZ, NM, and CA, the pull that one feels towards the desert is perfectly embodied in the simple and harsh notes of a single guitar. Imagine Clint Eastwood sharing a world with Stephen King's gunslinger Roland in a land that is between world's but most certainly bleak.
slooooooow down there cowboy March 13, 2006
R. Solomon (New Zealand)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Hex: Or Priniting in the Infernal Method is the first studio Earth album in nearly a decade, and as most reviews will agree, a departure from the previous four. it's an instrumental album (not to be confused with instru-metal) and comes complete with a drummer. it's released on southern lord (sun o))) and stephen o'malley). I haven't heard any other earth albums but i think pentastar also had a drummer.
Firstly it's slow and i mean slooooow. There's acres of space between notes and, i haven't counted, but some tunes clock in at like 15bpm.
Secondly it's heavy but this must certainly not be confused with dark. The album draws on influences from the american midwest in particular the German Lutheran and Swiss settlers of Pennsylvania. The midwest influence is most strongly heard on "an inquest concerning teeth".
The slowness and space between notes make some songs sound like your stuck out in the middle of some open plane with nothing but endless space. Or there's "left in the desert" with the howling wind complete with chimes.
The heaviest tune "Rainford (the fellow wind)" starts of with a single drum beat for about 1 minute then a two cord repition for another minute then both are superimposed with a distorted, elongated couple of notes that become progressively more central by the time it wraps up after about 7 minutes. The reviewer above is entirely accurate to suggest this could be the song to a slow motioned shoot out in the ok carol.
This album is wicked. I wouldn't necessarily call it a metal album...in that screaming and/or anrgy sense. i'm not even sure purists would call this drone metal. But however you classify it this album really is something. you just need some patience and an empty living room to be rewarded. Do yourself a favour and at least listen to it @ your favourite store.
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