Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method

When I close my eyes while listening to this new album of Earth I see before me abandoned ghost towns in the wild west, indians at war with cowboys and those same cowboys hunting on buffalo's. And that's exactly what the band is aiming for, I think when viewing the pictures in the booklet which shows the indians, the cowboys, old farms and farmers and ofcourse the desert landscapes.

So what about the music?

Think of some country song, the you'd hear in some western movie, and imagine the song being more slow than it was, put in a very deep and noisy bass, a bass-drum that causes your stuff to fall of your table when played very loud and offer some ambient-like passages (including sounds of horses and such) which aren't too long or too short. That's what you'll hear by listening this record.

The only downside of this album is that the playtime isn't long enough (it's around 47 minutes). While with most other musical genres 47 minutes is long enough but I feel that drone needs to take it's time and should often take up more than an hour of playtime. But this downside is easily countered by just pressing the 'play' button again because 'HEX; Or Printing In The Infernal Method' will not bore you for a long time.

So this album is very recommendable for drone lovers (with a soft spot for western stuff). This music is very cool when reading those cowboy novels or playing these 'desperado's' games while running this in the background.