Sub Pop finally got their act together and re-issued this long-outta print, mega influential debut from legendary drone metallers Earth on vinyl. Extra-Capsular's throbbing dirge drone is just as crushing as when it first surfaced in 1991, a towering 32 minute amp trance schooled in the minimalism of Terry Riley and the grim chugalug of Iommi's heaviest metallic riffing. Split into 3 tracks, "A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Parts 1 & 2", and "Ouroboros Is Broken", Earth coil their hypnotic serpentine sludge mantra around plodding, elephantine drums, weird jaguar-like screams, huge menacing gong crashes, and transcendental casio drones. Extra-Capsular Extraction features the original Earth lineup of Dylan Carlson on guitar and vocals, Dave Harwell on bass, and Joe Preston of Melvins/Thrones/High On Fire/The Whip on bass and percussion, with appearances from Nirvana's Kurt Cobain and Kelley Canary from Dickless. This slab is an undisputed classic in the drone dirge doom field, a precursor not only to the band's masterpiece Earth 2 which would follow in 1993, but also to the slow motion tectonic heaviosity of bands like Sunn O))), Corrupted, Boris, Khanate, and Pelican. The sleeve for this re-issue has all of the original psychedelic medical imagery and surgical text. Magical, meditative, and bone crushingly heavy. Essential.