BTW, thank you for mentioning Earth, because it caused me to review my collection and compare it with their catalog on allmusic.com, where I just now discovered they came out with a new album last month. Downloading it from Amazon now!
Definitely. There are sorta two incarnations of Earth, one that spans the first half of the 90s and another that reformed in 2005 and continues today. While both are drone-doomy, the former is of the more typically grungy and overdriven variety, while the latter uses much cleaner layers. Either way, you can't miss.
I think a good direction to go is to pick up one from each. Start with Pentastar: In the Style of Demons and Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method.
BTW, thank you for mentioning Earth, because it caused me to review my collection and compare it with their catalog on allmusic.com, where I just now discovered they came out with a new album last month. Downloading it from Amazon now!
Right on, DOB just made me think of them, I wasn't really meaning to compare. I haven't listened to the champs in a while.
Full disclosure, my band is/was 3/5's of SOTS, minus the drummers. No good recent recordings, just practice demos, but I'll put some stuff up, I feel like an enigma on here.