Earth

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 2 x LP
Label: Southern Lord
Quantity: 1000
Release type: 'RSD First' Release

Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method is the fourth full-length studio album by Earth.
Marking a new direction the band would follow in years to come, Hex stands in stark contrast to Earth's previous works. While retaining the extremely heavy doom/drone metal song structure of epic riffs over simple repetitive drumbeats, the guitar was inflected with country influences that favored a cleaner reverb-heavy tone layered with acoustic instruments over the band's previous predilection for distortion. The press release for the album cited diverse influences such as Ennio Morricone, Billy Gibbons, Neil Young's soundtrack to the movie Dead Man, country musicians Duane Eddy, Merle Haggard, and Roy Buchanan.
The 20th Anniversary release comes with 18"x24" poster (exclusive to this release) on colored vinyl.

Tracklist
"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 Polestar"
"Untitled" (vinyl-only bonus track)