i am fully immersed in metal at the moment. i pretty much exclusively listen to it. that goes that far, i even missed to buy some crucial, yes, let's say existential hardcore releases of recent date. which will be corrected very soon, by the way. the hardcore stuff of my latest posts were all records from the pile sitting there for quite some time. today's post is about a new passion of mine going by the name of high on fire.
in my blogger starting days i was reading one other blog very closely - lenny's 'the emerging addiction' blog. every now and again i would re-read some of his post. such happened with his high on fire posts. back then when i glimpsed at them for the first time, i simply liked the covers but never bothered to take a listen. additionally the term stoner metal put me off. but now, as i opened my musical horizon for a band such as mastodon and liking them a lot, i thought i should try some high on fire as well.
destiny made me check out the title song of 'death is this communion' first. yeah, i liked the gloomy atmosphere but it was a little bit too slow for my taste. i put the band in a distant corner of my mind. but the idea of myself liking this band was persistent. i downloaded the whole album, listened to it and suddenly the song appeared in a whole different light. together in the whole musical context of the album, the song totally clicked with me and the rest, too. i love the record and if the last third of it was as fantastic as the two preceding, it would simply be among my ten all time favourite records. man, just look on the art. so close to perfection...
i bought this shining copy on ebay for a fair price i think. it's a first press copy and, besides 100 grey copies (and the 100 not for the public clear copies), the rarest colour of the press. which isn't that hard because after the 600 opaque green copies there were just 1200 black copies pressed. so with the help of count count that makes 2000 copies of the first press. to this date four more pressings followed, with the fourth pressing now coming on double vinyl. check the whole album here. relapse records. 2007.
