EARTH hibernaculum LP melvins om boris baroness SEALED

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EARTH - Hibernaculum LP

Cover - EX

Vinyl - M (Sealed)

Original LP released on Southern Lord Records in 2007.

SEALED record that could be on BLACK or CLEAR.

Super hard to find SEALED.

Out of print and unavailable fom Southern Lord, and they don't do reissues. Here's your chance to get this great album on VINYL!

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Review from Pitchfork:

When rumors circulated in 2002 that Earth, the legendary Seattle drone-metal group, was re-emerging after a long hiatus, a legion of followers was duly stoked. Though the band's resonating torch had been carried forward by groups such as Sleep and Sunn0))), to diehards only Dylan Carlson held the master key to the eternal metal chord.

The anticipation was rewarded: Following a few releases hinting at new directions, 2005's Hex, or Printing in the Infernal Method was a true rebirth. Filled with lonesome tunes built around Carlson's clean, twangy guitar, the album painted pictures of windy ghost towns and moon-lit deserts, and owed as much to post-rock and country as metal and drone. Many songs evoked the cinematic instrumentals of Slint or Mogwai, but with Carlson's gift for Zen-like patience. No crescendos, flourishes, or denouements: Just simple guitar marching towards an infinite horizon.

Hibernaculum is Earth's first release since then, but it's not a follow-up as much as a history lesson told through the prism of Hex. It includes a four-track CD with three old Earth tunes redone in the Hex style, and a DVD documenting the band's post-Hex European tour. Musically, it might not quite match its predecessor, but as an updated retelling of the Earth tale, Hibernaculum is fascinating.

The first two cuts on the CD are the most interesting. "Ouroboros Is Broken" began life as an 18-minute track on Earth's 1991 debut Extra-Capsular Extraction, a post-Sabbath growler full of fuzzy chords and machine-like drumbeats. Hibernaculum's eight-minute version is slower and dreamier, with Carlson's "canyon bends" shadowed nicely by the shuddering bass of Don McGreevy and quaking Korg of Sunn0)))'s Greg Anderson.

Track two takes on "Coda Maestoso in F (Flat) Minor", a catchy rocker from Earth's 1996 "pop" album Pentastar: In the Style of Demons. Slowed to a glacial pace, the song becomes a desert mirage, turning each corner a few steps later than expected. Temporal illusion has long been a Carlson specialty, and here his frozen guitar web seems to hang in the air, eventually shining with the dewy gleam of Steve Moore's ringing piano. Throughout, Earth refuses to build to a climax or speed to a rush, wisely trusting that patience will be its own reward.

Allmuic says:

Arriving in 2007, Hibernaculum, a beautifully packaged CD/DVD combination issued on Southern Lord, proves that the change in sound that Earth mastermind and guitarist Dylan Carlson and drummer Adrienne Davies created on Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method was no one-off. On the CD version of the set, Earth cover three tunes from their previous incarnation as pioneering heavy metal drone masters, including the cut "A Plague of Angels," previously available only on a rare tour-only split 12" (with Sunn 0)))), all done in the "Hex" manner. On first glance -- and perhaps even on first listen -- with only 36 minutes of music included on the CD, this might appear to be a stop-gap on the way to a new album; it's seemingly more in line with the demos and other oddities Carlson had issued in the group's previous incarnation before he disbanded it. Having resurrected the band in 2000, Carlson decided to follow this different tack: playing music that is heavy in a very different way. Snaky long guitar lines are played with a restrained force, little distortion or feedback, and no drones. The hypnotic effect is achieved more from the repetition of the guitar patterns themselves and the space in between them. It's usually trebly and contains single lines as well as chord changes, with slow droning riffs that rely on the microphonics of volume to achieve their effect. It's given a flourish by Davies and bassists Don McGreevy and Jonas Haskins, and some analog synth sound coloration by Sunn 0)))'s Greg Anderson on the first two cuts, "Ouroboros Is Broken" and "Coda Maestoso in F (Flat) Minor." These two cuts, which lead into the last two, are heavy because of their intentional restraint. The music isn't pretty; it touches upon everything including Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western film cues and even a warped form of desert country music that could have come from Tucson in the 1980s.

"Miami Morning Coming Down" begins with a spare piano playing the four-note theme, which is completed in sparse fashion by Carlson's guitar playing in the second half. The music doesn't so much whirl around. In fact, in many ways it feels static in its repetition, but it draws you in all the same, offering a hint that something, anything, might happen. And it does -- the numbers of notes are the same but not their sequence, not the amount of space between theme articulation and completion. It begins to hover and float as fuzz tones take over on the guitars, cymbals shimmer, and a bassline emerges. It's hypnotic and haunting. The final cut is where Carlson and friends show the true menace in their sound, opening with a drone that seems to slip in and out of a crack in the world, the break that points to the void. Over 16 minutes in length, it unfolds and disintegrates rather than really building -- its tempo remains very slow, almost still, but the dark, heavy plod becomes a thud with a ringing guitar touching on pedal steel atmospherics and the sonics themselves peeling off the layers that surround this simple melody. As good as the rest of the material here is, it's "A Plague of Angels" that is the payoff. It wraps everything heard so far into a messy little package that points not inwardly but out toward the night sky itself. In its purposefulness, it's not just an aesthetic, it's a poetic. The film by Seldon Hunt on the accompanying DVD offers live footage of Earth during their Hex tour in Europe, interviews with bandmembers and with Carlson and others, providing an in-your-face, intimate view of the band as it exists in the present day. Hibernaculum may or may not be a stop-gap, because what exists here is somehow enough. It's Earth as a developing entity that transcends all the different genres that wrap into their sound for the sake of creating a music that is "heavier" than any of their peers.

[my grading standards taken from another seller]

SEALED record is in like new unopened condition believed to be mint under the shrink
NM I dont believe in MINT records...if its MINT it is SEALED in my opinion. NM then is as good as it gets like new but opened, I use this grading very rarely.
EX Sorry to mix up grading systems but I believe there is a place for an EX (its just a NM- or a VG++) for those clean records which are better than a regular VG+ but not flawless
VG+ This is the industry standard, a good clean record with minimal surface noise and one or two light surface scratches, cover might have some corner dings and ring wear starting but overall a good record similar to what you would find in the used bins of a local record shop.
VG Things are getting more worn here still a good player but visually showing wear and picking up some noise.
VG- Has a deep scratch or two visually rough also but plays through with pops and krackle.
G Not good at all, you have been warned