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Blessed Black Wings (CD)

By: High On Fire (Artist)

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High On Fire Artist Snapshot:

When stoner rock mavens Sleep called it quits in the late 1990s, guitarist Matt Pike formed the doom metal band High on Fire. Surely one of the most muscular power trios since Motorhead, High on Fire are also reminiscent of genre defining metal acts such as Celtic Frost, Slayer, and, of course, Black Sabbath. Yet the Oakland-based band has a broad artistic vision and a diverse musical pallet, positioning them firmly within a new movement in heavy metal in the early 2000s that appeals as much to indie rockers, punks, and avant-gardists as it does to traditional metalheads.

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DISC 1 for Blessed Black Wings (CD) Album By High On Fire (Artist)
1   Devilution
2   Face Of Oblivion, The
3   Brother In The Wind
4   Cometh Down Hessian
5   Blessed Black Wings
6   Anointing Of Seer
7   To Cross The Bridge
8   Silver Back
9   Sons Of Thunder
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "California's High on Fire dish out low-frequency terror that turns your innards to black tar."
Spin (p.108) - "[R]elentless, both sonically and technically, and Matt Pike's sinister howl is bested only by his guitar brutality..." - Grade: B+
Alternative Press (p.120) - 5 out of 5 - "BLESSED BLACK WINGS doesn't find High On Fire reinventing their sound as much as refining it, moving slightly to the left of the Black Sabbath comparisons that always follow them to a pulverizing, white-hot audio assault..."
The Wire (p.59) - "BBW is an album of epic proportions and experimentation that magically welds together in a compacted Metal ball of potent energy that refuses to stop once it gets rolling."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "HIGH ON FIRE deliver metal the old way, not fixed, just souped-up and supercharged."

Title Note

High On Fire: Matt Pike (vocals, guitar); Joe Preston (bass instrument); Des Kensel (drums).

Recording information: Electrical Audio, Chicago, Illinois.

Since his early days as the creative engine behind the legendary band Sleep, guitarist-howler Matt Pike has--probably more than any other single artist--brought doom metal out of the shadows. With BLESSED BLACK WINGS, the sophomore release by his jacked-up Sleep sequel High On Fire, Pike--without sacrificing his metal cred one iota--continued to burrow into the ranks of indie kids who wanted to raise devil horns, too. Almost explicitly bridging metal and indie worlds, the Oakland trio featured former Melvin Joe Preston on bass and tapped alt-producer to the stars, Steve Albini, to man the board. Albini crystallizes High On Fire's wall of riffage on BLESSED BLACK WINGS sharpening their bong-friendly fuzz with brutal clarity. Every track is a monster. The lead-off "Devilution," the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired "Cometh Down Hessian," and the epic title cut each manifest the Sabbath-on-PCP speed, volume, and intensity that placed the trio among doom's most creative, inspiring acts.

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