needs more _______________________
― funny hats were good enough for monk, goddamit! (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
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love those lines so much. late-career metallica is such a hilariously glorious mess
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
BLACKENED IS THE ENDWINTER IT WILL SENDTHROWING ALL YOU SEEINTO OBSCURITY
love is a four-letter word
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"glorious" is not something id use for it, and this is coming from someone who likes Load.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
loads dope
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway, feel free to get back to high on fire. i should start a markers metallica challops thread someday
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
again?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Load contains some of the most ear-excruciating crap. I'll maybe put in a good word for "Until It Sleeps" and "2x4" if I'm feeling nice but dear God, what the hell is Poor Twisted Me? Wasting My Hate? Outlaw Torn? vomit
― michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost
again? dont think ive started one before
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Please move the nu-metallica discussion out of here.
― Sabbath to Ulver: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
great point bill
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
'Snakes For The Divine' is my first and only HoF album, and I love it. I keep meaning to get more of their stuff, but I simply never see any of their other LPs (I want vinyl) on my travels. I must look into ordering a couple. I take it from this and other threads that it's basically all good.
― Duke, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
some hof vinyl just got reissued!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, it is. It's all really good.
― Sabbath to Ulver: "Suck It" (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
It seems quite tough to find their vinyl, even online (going by my - ahem - 3 minutes of searching). I'll have to do a bit more digging
― Duke, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
eh? it's all on sale at http://shop.relapse.com/
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx?ProductID=39922http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx?ProductID=20362http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx?ProductID=26136
or
http://www.allthatisheavy.com/search.asp?SearchTerm=high+on+fire
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Cheers v much. I was just checking my usual online shops, which tend not to sell too much metal.
Order on the way...
― Duke, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ and I'd rather order within Europe. Cheers for the tips though - might fall back on them if other options fail.
― Duke, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
BBW sounds great on vinyl. relapse did a nice job with these.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh where are you? i assumed you were in the us.best place in europe is http://www.musicfearsatan.com/en/nouveautes.html
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.musicfearsatan.com/en/recherche/req;HIGH%20ON%20FIRE;.html
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, no worries -- thanks for the links! I've just ordered BBW.
― Duke, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, relapse did a great job with these reissues. a boon to surrounded and DITC, the original versions of which tried to pack too much time into their grooves. sound amazing with 2 LP's worth of breathing room.
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
digging this snakes for the devine
― get this philistine off our thread (jdchurchill), Monday, 11 October 2010 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"Fire Flood & Plague" might be the definitive HoF song. It's what they do that no one else can do, sliding between heavy and fast like they're the same thing, while keeping the whole song, the whole story, right in the cross-hairs.
― bendy, Saturday, 23 October 2010 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
still think that the definitive HoF song = like "10,000 years" or maybe "thraft of canaan", but shit yeah, that's a jam.
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Saturday, 23 October 2010 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
What's going on with High on Fire?
They're invariably smoking a heroic amount of dope.
― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 24 October 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
inspired by this thread to revisit this album this morning. it's better than I'd thought! really great! some of the punk beats on for example "ghost neck" are part of an if-not-general-surely-present mood among some metal bands to re-engage with some of their hardcore ancestry, which I dig when it feels natural, as here. somebody mentioned the psychedelia of i.e. "blessed black wings" and that's hof at their best for me: when you feel like there's a degree of wastedness sufficient to reach transcendence. snakes kicks a lot more ass than I'd thought, but am I looking for d-beat tributes while high? generally no. I like this better than the debut, but this & the debut are 2nd-tier HoF; blessed black wings & death is this communion & surrounded by thieves are all top top notch. still, I mean, 2nd-tier hof is still as good as most bands' best.
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
did not make it through their whole set last night, but did catch blessed black wings and one of the songs i liked from death is this communion. they're still pretty vicious and good live for sure, but their records have felt increasingly rote to me.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I would give a 2nd listen to the back half of snakes for the divine - it's v. solid imo
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
nice coming around, aero. listened to a good chunk of snakes last night, with a few comparison tracks from the early albums, and dig it more every time i play it, especially at neighbor-hating volume. love the clarity and toughness of the sound, classic without being directly reminiscent of anyone but themselves, and there's still enough miasmic goo in the production for the vibes to go all woozy when pike stretches out. quibble:
snakes kicks a lot more ass than I'd thought, but am I looking for d-beat tributes while high? generally no.
yeah, but throw in a healthy pinch of "and drunk" and it starts to make a lot more sense
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
and xpost yeah, especially those last two tracks holy shit
i have found that it generally improves everything to imagine that i am pleasing, or at least placating, the lizard people when i play the new album.
― j., Monday, 25 October 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, Pike kept baiting the Chapel Hill crowd to get into more, threatening "this is like your encore already...", But closing with "Snakes" shows that he still knows he's at the top of his game. Next time, I'd like to see them closer to a weekend. Wish they played another hour.
― bendy, Thursday, 28 October 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
umm is this a joke???
also, i think they're playing south by southwest.
― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:47 (6 years ago)yeah, they're playing SxSW, and they're playing in Austin the day before it starts with Dysrythmia & Zeke.
awesome.
(apologies for foolishly posting directly after someone else with nearly exactly the same name)
― ian johno (ian johno), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:17 (6 years ago)
― 69, Thursday, 28 October 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
face of oblivion
― social-media-compost Circle of Life (jdchurchill), Thursday, 28 October 2010 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
it's more like they just happen to have similar names, let's not get carried away
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 28 October 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
World renowned hard rock band HIGH ON FIRE will release its new studio album De Vermis Mysteriis on April 3 via eOne Music. Recorded in Salem, Massachusetts' GodCity Studios with producer and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, the 10 song effort -- touted as "direct, eye-opening and powerfully supernatural" -- is the band's sixth studio recording and the follow up to 2010's Snakes for the Divine which debuted at #62 on the Billboard Top 200 and has been called "wonderful" by The New York Times and "an exhilarating rush" by The Chicago Tribune. De Vermis Mysteriis (or "Mysteries of the Worm") takes its title from a fictional grimoire created by Psycho author Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis as one of the books that "repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by early man"). The album carries a deeply mystical undercurrent, incorporating fantastical themes and lyrics detailing, among other things, time travel, a serum called liao that is made out of a black lotus and "a Jesus twin who can see the past through his ancestors' eyes."
De Vermis Mysteriis (or "Mysteries of the Worm") takes its title from a fictional grimoire created by Psycho author Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis as one of the books that "repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by early man"). The album carries a deeply mystical undercurrent, incorporating fantastical themes and lyrics detailing, among other things, time travel, a serum called liao that is made out of a black lotus and "a Jesus twin who can see the past through his ancestors' eyes."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like they may be high on something else.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
severely supernatural
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
I love HOF, but i cant understand the words when he sings for shit, so Im not sure I care what the theme is. He could be singing the Salem Mass phonebook for all i care.
― You're a notch, I'm a legend (Bill Magill), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, tho i do like it when a distinct phrase pops:
i am the one who by others is called fire face
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Somebody has to have named an album De Vermis Mysteriis before this right?
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZDeaoMl1L._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
i don't fucking know...i thought there was some huge well-known metal album by that name.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
well, mayhem's got de mysteriis dom sathanas
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
thinking of this one?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tfvcUyu0VpM/S-82GIzrcFI/AAAAAAAABNU/wbE6gsfOL3A/s400/De+Mysteriis+Dom+Sathanas.jpg
lol, xpost
― original bgm, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link