The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[D.o.S.]

And High on Fire peaked in 2005, so...

[rickenbastard]

And High on Fire peaked in 2005, so...

I actually think their best album is De Vermis Mysteriis, yet Luminiferous was a very worthy follow-up so I have lots of faith in his riffing still

[D.o.S.]

Damn that's bold. I don't think anything comes close to the original trilogy of 10,000/Surrounded/Blessed

I'm 'cautiously optimistic' about the new Sleep (and the new HOF)

[rickenbastard]

I must admit a strong degree of bias to the newer material because Jeff Matz is one of my favorite bassists

[Iommic Pope]

They're one of my desert island bands. I just hope this doesn't piss on the legacy.

Matt Pike is in the band.

He's in.

And High on Fire peaked in 2005, so...

You're out.

Sorry buddy, you want to talk about pissing on a legacy?




Still love you, anyway.

[emptyparadigm]

Doom buds--

Anyone interested in one of the old HCAF-exclusive fuzz pedals from VidFX? I have too many pedals. Need to clear out space in my office. Figured I'd mention it in here in case anyone was on the hunt for one. Check out my thread in ye old BST.

Also, +1 to being cautiously optimistic about the Sleep album. I wasn't crazy about that single they put out a year or two ago, but I will reserve judgment until my ears can hear the thing in its entirety.

Oh, and everyone should listen to the new Nick Cave album. It's heavy as fuck, even though several songs have no guitars whatsoever. Read a a bit about the subject matter and it'll make it that much heavier. It's up there with Sumerlands and Inter Arma for my top albums of the year.

[D.o.S.]

They're one of my desert island bands. I just hope this doesn't piss on the legacy.

Matt Pike is in the band.

He's in.

And High on Fire peaked in 2005, so...

You're out.

Sorry buddy, you want to talk about pissing on a legacy?




Still love you, anyway.

If you don't think BBW is the best record they've done in the last decade I'm going to need your family's mailing address. It only seems right to send them a card expressing my condolences that you've suffered severe brain damage.

But I guess if you weren't there at the beginning the new stuff probably sounds just as good.

[D.o.S.]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Q0TtId1TY[/youtube]

What's wierd: Death is This Communion is hella underrated nowadays in the HoF discography.

[Kacey Y]

I put Blessed Black Wings and Snakes For The Devine as my least favorite High On Fire albums. BBW is the one that turned me off them and I didn't hear Death Is This Communion until after Snakes and discovered I liked it. The last two albums are amazing, in my opinion. For a long time I was very grumpy about the fact that everything wasn't 10,000 Years, but I appreciate the newer style now.

[D.o.S.]

Snakes just sounds like 'shit': Wrong producer/band combination with the wrong sort of sheen.

I think Surrounded by Thieves is still my gun to the head favorite record but the title track on BBW makes that hard. Pre double-kick HoF>Later output, IMO. I think Kensel had back surgery or something, but once he started substituting his tom work with kicks the band lost 'something' (along with Pike's vocal problems and his new voice). Whatever, still love the band, still listen to their records, but the first three are where it's at, IMO.

[conky]

Snakes just sounds like 'shit': Wrong producer/band combination with the wrong sort of sheen.

I think Surrounded by Thieves is still my gun to the head favorite record but the title track on BBW makes that hard. Pre double-kick HoF>Later output, IMO. I think Kensel had back surgery or something, but once he started substituting his tom work with kicks the band lost 'something' (along with Pike's vocal problems and his new voice). Whatever, still love the band, still listen to their records, but the first three are where it's at, IMO.

This. His drumming was so great on the earlier stuff. When he added the second kick in there they sounded like Motorhead, especially with Matt Pike's emphysema vocals starting around then.

[Krosis]

I must be the only one who likes the Snakes album

[bloatedsack]

I must be the only one who likes the Snakes album

Nope. Of all the ones I've heard, it's by far my favourite.

Although I haven't heard the newest one.

[John Matrix]

HOLY FUCK. I feel like I am in some bizarre parallel universe right now. Blessed Black Wings all god damn day. Devilution is one of the best beginnings to an album that I can think of. Every album that came afterwards just sounds like slightly worse versions of the same songs but with different producers.

[amorphous]

Blessed Black Wings was produced by Albini, so one could argue there was no producer on that album at all, just an engineer. Or at least Steve would argue that.