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Album Review: High on Fire – “Snakes for the Divine”
If you aren’t familiar with High on Fire’s previous work, you will likely know almost immediately whether or not their latest album, Snakes for the Divine, is for you. In fact, I can pinpoint the exact moment when you will make up your mind. The pivotal moment for the uninitiated comes precisely one minute and twenty seven seconds into the album’s first song “Snakes For The Divine.”
For that is when the listener first gets a taste of Matt Pike’s vocals.
Pike sounds a hell of lot like Motorhead’s Lemmy, which is to say he sounds like a giant drunk bullfrog in the middle of a steroids cycle. For a lot of people, it’s just too grating and distracting from the music. I get that. But I promise, if you can make it past the 1:27 mark of the first song, the vocals will grow on you as you hear how they melt into the songs like butter.
And there are some great metal songs here.
