The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

Dylan Carlson's return as the Ennio Morricone of metal continues to confound, as he offers up the  biggest, cleanest, and most flagrantly melodic record Earth's ever recorded, a true band album as much about drummer Adrienne Davies and organist Steve Moore.

In the wake of many pretenders to Earth's drone-rock throne, leader Dylan Carlson veered left with 2005's Hex (Or Printing In The Infernal Method), a disc of psychotropic twang that gave new meaning to the phrase "happy trails." Last year's Hibernaculum groped forward and back by reworking some old Earth songs in its…

In recent years, a new subgenre of heavy metal has inexplicably gained itself a foothold in the underground: drone metal.

<p>(Southern Lord) </p>