Death Is This Communion
- High on Fire
- Band Name: High on Fire
- Record Label: Relapse
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2007
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82If you aren't already in the know, though, let this serve as some sort of wakeup call to the Oakland band's best collection to date.
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80High On Fire's fourth album sees them once again on thunderous form. [Nov 2007, p.95]
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80It's sharp and in your face, like a scimitar. [Oct 2007, p.110]
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80On their fourth album, the goal continues to be to outdo themselves in terms of heavier-than-thou riffs, thundering drums and ominous aggression.
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Matt Pike has changed over the years, though, and it hasn't hurt at all.
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DITC will still melt your speakers. Jack Endino's clean yet full-tilt production fills out the sound, but it's drummer Des Kensel's ability to push forward and hold back--not simply pound monochromatically from start to finish--that truly creates the thriving, volatile atmosphere here.
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The deeper you go into the record, the more reassured you become that these musicians know what they're great at.
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80The familiar sounds are thrilling enough, but the real treat on Death is This Communion is just how much variety the band brings into the music this time around.
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Death Is This Communion slays in all the right places, but had it ventured into some of the wrong places we might've had an album really worth dribbling about.
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60The primitive beauty of Matt Pike's dense riffs and Des Kensel's tribal rhythms should ensure that the Foo Fighters' frontman usn't the only one falling in love with the Oakland trio.
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60The Bay Area band increase their stylistic range, with flashes of psychedelia, and creatively druggy overtones to balnce out the epic pummeling. [Oct 2007, p.104]
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KyleZ9Very good! Love the atmosphere it creates, can't wait for more!
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