{"id":407,"date":"2005-02-10T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2024-03-24T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T20:01:28","slug":"high-on-fire-blessed-black-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"High on Fire &#8211; Blessed Black Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A\/\/www.newsreview.com\/reno\/content\/high-on-fire\/24129\/\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\/?text=High%20on%20Fire&amp;url=https%3A\/\/www.newsreview.com\/reno\/content\/high-on-fire\/24129\/&amp;via=RNRtwits\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A\/\/www.newsreview.com\/reno\/content\/high-on-fire\/24129\/&amp;title=High%20on%20Fire\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A\/\/www.newsreview.com\/reno\/content\/high-on-fire\/24129\/&amp;media=https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/24129-01.jpeg&amp;description=Metal%20has%20a%20new%20master.%20Again.\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/24129-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Satan would fear Bay Area trio High on Fire. It\u2019s simply unstoppable, now that the band has recruited former Melvins bassist Joe Preston (who lives in the Northwest). Sure, it\u2019s a bitch to get together for band practice and songwriting, but somehow this chance union works for the better.\u00a0<em>Blessed Black Wings<\/em>\u00a0carries on the rich tradition of stoner riffage, \u00e0 la Kyuss or Sleep, among a quagmire of early-Sabbath-esque fare without sounding dated or refurbished. Tracks like \u201cThe Face of Oblivion\u201d and \u201cCometh Down Hessian\u201d set new, dizzying standards for metal with epic arrangements, string interludes and storytelling. High on Fire has, in effect, become the standard. Fans of Mastodon or early Cathedral will rejoice. The master is here. Nine out of 10 Orange amplifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(RN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Satan would fear Bay Area trio High on Fire. It\u2019s simply unstoppable, now that the band has recruited former Melvins bassist Joe Preston (who lives in the Northwest). Sure, it\u2019s a bitch to get together for band practice and songwriting, but somehow this chance union works for the better.\u00a0Blessed Black Wings\u00a0carries on the rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}