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Title: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: Lummer on 18 Feb 2010, 06:32: GO...
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Feb 2010, 14:30: The new High on Fire's good? That would be a change.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: Be My Head on 18 Feb 2010, 15:28: Quote from: KharBevNor on 18 Feb 2010, 14:30
The new High on Fire's good? That would be a change.

I've never actually listened to them, but I'm guessing I agree with this.

Because you know, hipster metal.

*gets ready for a flood of posts about biased opinions on metal*
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: Lummer on 18 Feb 2010, 16:56: I haven't heard the record yet, but I'm saving it for when I've bought it. I will also stand by the fact that Matt Pike is the biggest motherfuckin' badass in the world until I draw my last breath.

And "Age Of Winters" is a pretty darned good record. Big, dumb, riffin' fun.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Feb 2010, 18:42: I'm probably being a bit too harsh on High on Fire. Your mother probably hasn't heard much stoner metal or sludge, and it's nice that there's a well known band delivering a watered down version of stuff that was cliche in 1996 so you can introduce her to those genres.

Still, even your mother probably thinks their guitar tone is total dick.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: tricia kidd on 18 Feb 2010, 18:50: Quote from: KharBevNor on 18 Feb 2010, 14:30
The new High on Fire's good? That would be a change.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: all_outta_angst on 18 Feb 2010, 20:01: change? more like a consistency. no one ever has been or will be more metal than matt pike!
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 18 Feb 2010, 20:28: I'm enjoying it, but I really wish the production was better. Drums and bass are WAY too low in the mix.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Feb 2010, 20:59: Quote from: all_outta_angst on 18 Feb 2010, 20:01
change? more like a consistency. no one ever has been or will be more metal than matt pike!

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Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: KharBevNor on 18 Feb 2010, 21:02: Sig quote
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: Damnable Fiend on 18 Feb 2010, 21:44: I really liked the title track off their last album anyway, if they do anything like that again (ie. actual doom metal with Cthulhu-esque lyrics) I might get this album.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: sean on 18 Feb 2010, 21:58: does jeph even read this forum anymore?

i wouldn't be surprised if he has just bookmarked the guitar thread and thats it.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: David_Dovey on 19 Feb 2010, 00:45: I'm not Jeph but

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Quote from: David_Dovey on 18 Feb 2010, 05:44
The High on Fire record leaked, I listened to it once so far and nothing really jumped out at me but I think that's cos it's a grower. Much slower and conventionally Sabbathian than Death is This Communion

Gonna listen to it again today, so back later with more analysis.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: David_Dovey on 19 Feb 2010, 00:52: Oh I know why nothing stuck out at me now. The production fucking sucks. Fuck you Greg Fidelman, fuck you. Why one earth HoF would go from Albini, to Endino, to yr dumb ass I will never know.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: jeph on 20 Feb 2010, 06:13: Quote from: sean on 18 Feb 2010, 21:58
does jeph even read this forum anymore?

i wouldn't be surprised if he has just bookmarked the guitar thread and thats it.

I poke my head in once or twice but I am almost 30 years old, I have better things to do than post on internet forums.

Also the new HoF is incredible and I have no problems with how it was mixed, fuck tha hataz
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: sean on 20 Feb 2010, 10:49: paging joe hocking to this thead.

joe hocking, this thread please
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: David_Dovey on 10 Mar 2010, 22:20: Bumping this thread because this review from TheLeftHandPath.com is hilarious and One Hundred Per Cent True

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What a goddamned awful High on Fire record. There’s nothing to like about this fifth full-length, Snakes for the Divine, not even the two-bit fanto cover art. What remains is Matt Pike’s tiresome Lemmy impression, front and center, illuminated by a complete inability to convey anything but passing-a-Mini-Cooper-through-his-shitter pathos. Every song swathed in the same schema: Ball-aching growls “compete” with drummer Des Kensel’s yawning mid-paced blah.

The program's obvious intent -- huffin’ it over mountains to swipe marauder gold from ice caverns rife with Githyanki and Frost Giants -- never materializes. Try to erase the stubborn picture of group therapy sessions full of tatted, steel-haired guys smoking Pall Malls and sipping Folgers, chatting up how long they’ve stuck it out with the methadone. No, I never liked “reality” television.

What a moody, cantankerous blast of ennui... Songs take far too long to get their bearing and then flail about listlessly, content with grand declarations of emotional quagmire received in wholly disconnected and unfounded ways – sorta like a dog flipping through a Time magazine photo special on the Haiti earthquake devastation.

The greatest crime here is Pike’s guitar. Long his most appealing weapon, the axe is blunted, inexcusably dressed down by an indifferent and destructive mix. Propulsive, fanged riffs gone fruity is a disease I never figured this guy to present. But the world’s rife with disappointment. Aint it? People predisposed to praise this transformation likely cower from Albini’s fist-to-the-nuts production style – and Blessed Black Wings’ (exquisite) brand of tunes. That’s fine. Most folks need another underachieving bullshit band whose total artistic ambition consists in “playing epic tunes, brah.”
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 10 Mar 2010, 22:34: I just wish the guy that produced it had the guitars plugged into amps instead of butts.
Title: Re: The Thread in which Jeph tells us all just HOW good the new High On Fire is.
Post by: Akima on 13 Mar 2010, 13:34: Nobody has ever been more metal than Captain Haddock (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,24532.msg914648.html#msg914648)!