We're finally stocking the digipack cd version of this crucial drone-metal classic! Unfortunately, Sub Pop opted to not replicate the original package design for this disc which featured a colored transparency cover and several different insert cards, instead going for a simple digipack design, but for collectors who missed out on the original Phase 3 cd release, this is still essential...

One of my all-time favorite Earth albums, Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions is finally back in print after an extended stay in OOP territory. With Phase 3, Earth bridged the glacial amplifier drone of Earth 2 and the heavy hypno-rock of Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons to form a powerful collection of jams, including the joyous ambient sludge-pop of "Harvey" (which is one of my favorite Earth songs EVER!), the hypnotic, monolithic dronemetal of "Tibetan Quaaludes", and the megadistorted, slomo prairie laments of 'Lullaby (take 2:How Dry I Am), 'Song 4', and 'Song 6 (chime)', all of which provides a direct line to the droning Americana that Earth would perfect with Hex. Also on this album is 'Site Specific Carnivorous Occurance', a mighty 9 minute free-drone-rock jam that marries mind-blotting feedback drone with gorgeous exploratory guitar, 'Phase 3: Agni Detonating over the Thar Desert...'s dreamy, miasmic waves of speaker hiss, and the fourteen minute sludge-raga majesty of 'Thrones And Dominions'. Phase 3 is in many ways Earth at it's most melodic, offering up some of the catchiest, most memorable hooks of their existence, riding on top of room-shaking, speaker-rumbling dronesludge. An undeniable classic in the drone Metal pantheon: absolutely, unquestionably essential to fans of Earth and heavy drone rock, period.