Woman Is the Earth is an American

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History

Woman Is the Earth was formed in

in 2007 by vocalist/guitarist Jarrod Hattervig, second guitarist Andy Martin and

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Jon Martin. Two years after formation the band released their debut album ''Of Dirt'' which they produced and published at own costs. Three years after the release of their debut album, the band recorded and published their second album ''This Place Contains My Spirit''ISOLATION: INTERVIEW MIT JOHANNES SCHMID, ALBERT RÖHL In 2014 and 2016 Woman Is the Earth released their third and fourth full-length studio album ''Depths'' and ''Torch of Our Final Night'' which were both published via

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'': In 2021 the band published their fifth album ''Dust of Forever'' via Init Records.

Musical style

The band's music is described as

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with influences from other musical genres like

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without being a clone of bands like Wolves in the Throne Room. The musicians themselves declare being part of the "Cascadian black metal" scene. The musicians roots' are in the punk and

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, pages=6–8 Next to Wolves in the Throne Room the band gets musical inspiration from bands like Skagos and Alda. The length of the bands songs ranges between six and ten minutes.Philipp Walter: ''Musikreviews.de''
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Discography

* 2009: ''Of Dirt'' (Album, Self-published) * 2012: ''This Place That Contains My Spirit'' (Album, Self-published, re-released in 2014 via Eisenwald Tonschmiede, Vinyl: Wolfrune Worxxx) * 2014: ''Depths'' (Album,

) * 2016: ''Torch of Our Final Night'' (Album, Init Records) * 2017: ''Thaw'' (EP, Init Records) * 2021: ''Dust is Forever'' (Album, Init Records)

External links

Woman Is the Earth
at Facebook

References

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