Arriving in 2007,, a beautifully packaged a double audio/video disc combination issued on Southern Lord, proves that the change in sound that mastermind and guitarist and drummer created on was no one-off. On the CD version of the set, 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 ), all done in the ' manner.

The Songs of Distant Earth is the 16th album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1994 by Warner Music. It is based on Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel The Songs of Distant Earth. Sound transformation occurred through Hex, induced Earth to rearrange some old songs with the new style: a sort of acid and dilated blues/post rock to be played live.

On first glance -- and perhaps even on first listen -- with only 36 minutes of music included on the audio disc, 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 had issued in the group's previous incarnation before he disbanded it. Having resurrected the band in 2000, 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 and bassists and, and some analog synth sound coloration by 's 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 's spaghetti Western film cues and even a warped form of desert country music that could have come from Tucson in the 1980s.

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'Miami Morning Coming Down' begins with a spare piano playing the four-note theme, which is completed in sparse fashion by '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 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.