High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings

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Am I the only one who's finding it kinda meh the first time through?

― Overbite (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't heard it, but is Joe Preston on this record? I hear he's playing with them live lately.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard rumors to that effect. If he is, it sure doesn't sound like it. I mean, the record is *fine*, just no great leaps forward. I'll still totally see them live when they come.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it! Especially how loud it is.

It Might Not Make Me Feel Like God's Teabag, But The New High On Fire Deserves Its Own Thread, Doesn't It?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

sound-wise, it's a big leap forward. the last album sounded like crap.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with you there. And according to relapse.com, Ol' Joe Preston does, indeed, play bass on this. It really has the makings of a classic...so why isn't it?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:44 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so track 7 rules. But even it took me more than three spins to really appreciate. When I first heard "Blood From Zion" way back when, I couldn't move. I mean, it's fuckin' heaviness actually incapacitated me. It RULED.

Maybe I need to listen to this new one in the car, despite how much I was looking forward to listening to Too Fast For Love on the drive in to work in the morning.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 24 January 2005 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

this whole record rules. listen again and this time do it right!

should we discuss om "variations on a theme" here? om being chris hakius and al cisneros of sleep doing long, mantric doom bass/drums duets. and it's good - especially the second half - but it sounds sort of like "sleep's holy mountain" without any real sense of song structure.

it's on holy mountain records! c'mon!

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds good to me already!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I kept my neighbors up really late listening to this record last night. The title track slays.

― adam (adam), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the first three songs are so utterly mindblowing that i've not listened to much past them, but man alive it's awesome!

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Friday, 18 February 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone heard the OM record, looks ULTIMATE on paper, 3 long songs, bass and drums!!!

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, that OM website rules!...it's so 1996!

― ddb (ddb), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I would really like this

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.headheritage.com/wsym/

as of right now you can listen to the whole OM record in realaudio at that address (i've already seen it around on SLSK, too).

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 18 February 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard an OM track on Brian Turner's radio show the other day -- Stephen O'Malley from Khanate/SunnO))) was the guest DJ. Great show, the OM song really stood out.

Anyway, the HOF album is killing me. I understand why people are kinda meh about it, on the surface it's pretty plain, but I really think it's a subtle creeper of an album. It kicked my ass pretty hard about the 7th time I listened. The sound is great, guitars/drums sit well in the mix, I love how the whole album's mixed. The guitar work is burning. I think it's actually the best album I've heard this year. I'm not exaggerating.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it's meh. I love it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Same here!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto - see upthread!

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to write a piece on this band Kylesa, who are touring with High On Fire, and I really like their new album too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Kylesa were really good when I saw them open for HOF. When does the new album (I just got the self titled one with a mummy wrapped dude on the front) drop?

― adam (adam), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

March 22nd.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool.

― adam (adam), Monday, 21 February 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

listened to this tonight. still fucking brilliant and catchy, fine riffs abound.

video for "devilution" = low rent tribute to jean rollin and maybe moctezuma, grrrrreat.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 8 September 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

i'm starting to compile a list for the best albums of the decade, and I'm thinking this is gonna figure pretty high...still have to listen to Death is The Communion tho...

― never dropped acid, picked it up a couple times tho... (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 06:04 (seventeen years ago)

DitC hits the highest highs, but BBW is higher all the way through. I think BBW will end up in my top 3.

― bendy, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 06:44 (seventeen years ago)

right now it's no. 4 for me..."anointing of seer" is a motherfucker

― never dropped acid, picked it up a couple times tho... (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 07:08 (seventeen years ago)

DitC is more consistent (and BBW was consistent) but BBW had Devilution which was a BIG highpoint.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

i heard "rumours of war" on their myspace page, and i was a bit less than impressed, but i'll give DitC a listen right now...

― seppuku toothbrush (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 07:56 (seventeen years ago)

huh. i'd put art of self defense on a best of the ohies list, but i dunno if anything else'd make the cut. maybe BBW

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

I think BBW is awe-inspiring, and I thought so from the first listen

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

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