Do you have a favorite album? The album that excites you a lot, makes your heart race, and gives you goosebumps, you don't even know why but you have a hunch, which is always better not to know because you risk a warning, Paparesta doesn't joke, then you skip the turn, and my girlfriend never knows by whom to get hit. Think about it, don't just throw out misplaced names. Okay, the melody, okay, the sought after, okay, that you get emotional with Sigur Ròs, okay, that you find yourself pondering the void with a jerk face when listening to Mogwai. Pedro The Lion is touching, but it's always better to touch your testicles when listening to them. Is your favorite album theirs? Make your heart their album, something like ‘from Peschiera with fury,' Ponta plays the trumpet, and I pose as a promoter.

We all know the sensations, albums that get under your skin for various reasons. I cite an album like "Feathers" by Dead Meadow, that one touched me, but the reason I then went to rediscover it was because when I listened to it, I kept getting showered with affection from the woman. Then everything connects, and the album in question loses intrinsic value to gain emotional value. Sure, a great album it is and remains, psychedelia after the '90s is the greatest wave of freshness, worthy of fig-flavored Mentos. Someone over there I hear yelling "Suuubsonicaaaaa." Well, the soundtrack of alternative tineggeri waves at the end and start of the millennium just like Afterhours. "What do you say"? "Afterhours, yes Afterhours." Let's talk about Perturbazione, who sing "Se mi Scrivi," and you feel like sending random text messages to some girls because it brings to mind couches and evenings in front of the TV, hot chocolates with cream, and breast groping like it's raining. These are weaknesses of you men, but also women, in due proportions. Even Marlene Kuntz marked someone, now they mark the days remaining to their artistic suicide (Godano, what did they do to you?). And then sing all together "Pelle" by the Lamb, shoot "Incantevole" by that junkie Boosta, one of the worst addicts, marked by vice and keeping it thanks to the weak hearts of tinegger. That he also writes crappy books is another story. Maybe I was forgetting the Brit-Indie-Post-Pop-Rock-Moan-Baobab wave, from Chris Martin's cannoli in the throat to Michael Stipe's giant head, where everything is emotional, sometimes simple and a bit trivial. Everyone soaking listening to Cat Power singing among the trees, Beth Orton duetting with Rowlands and Simons. Beautiful emotions, but easy. Find the time and dig. Emotions like these can be found by anyone, Satan didn't choose this way, not everyone can serve in the difficult emotion branch.

This album makes you tremble for what it manages to NOT be. Too heavy if you're not used to it, Matt Pike invented the NON-STONER-METAL-DOOM, the uncategorizable group really. A genius that hasn't exploded precisely because the product itself is too much. Rightly so, a mad scientist who invents a deadly virus doesn't deserve adoration, but I don't care, I keep it all for myself (and a few others). What is "Baghdad"? IT IS NOT. What explodes 5 minutes into "10000 years"? What does "Fireface" emit? Poorly produced love, almost unlistenable, hence misunderstood. This album is love, a difficult relationship, of slaps and punches, as if Mirko Filipovic married Naomi Campbell. High On Fire were born and died with this album, unable to retrace such a path with the two (excellent) subsequent titles. On par with the historic Sleep, Matt's group of origin (even if incomparable), beyond definitions. Matt Pike knows what he's doing, from Carpenedo to Castrette, nipple wheel bless you all.

Tracklist Lyrics and Videos

01   Baghdad (05:15)

Quickening of the Elder
Knowledge of the Otherside
Deepweed sets emotion
Hardening of the Warrior
The burning
That will never die
Melding of the Riffchild
From wall to the Universe
Weed priest stoned arrival
Sharpening of the weapons
The skill inside the endless mind

Celestial King walks water
Hear words foretell destruction
Hear words expose corruption
Generation darkening

Echoes from the mountain
A warning to behold the times
Insight saved the blind man
Covenant with the Father
The burning that will never die
Supersonic psalmist project
Reveals astro child
Windows of the Riffian
Nameless masses cower
From horse and carriage
In the sky

02   10,000 Years (07:53)

10,000 years or more
In jet black meditation
Sonic Tempress hears no more
And hands me my salvation
Walking thru the piles of life
Ignore all accusation
Now I stand here hands are sore
But thats my motivation

The vision never died
The earthling walked in flight

10,000 Years or more
In jet black meditation
Now I stand here hands are sore
But thats my reputation

03   Blood From Zion (04:55)

Flies cloudjian rider
Holding keys to fires
A righteous one begat him
His robe is drenched in blood

Fury is beside him
Knees before The Master
Righteous praise from Zion
Wicked born fire

Coming of Messiah
Hand of the Almighty
Blood flows down from Zion
Turn face from The Cheribum

04   Last (06:36)

05   Fireface (08:35)

To be rising chief I have traveled a hundred fold days
Wandered dark wilderness, ravens have gathered my ways
Holy man, vision quest, dancing dawn reflects his gaze
Return to the clan with the scalps of the men who betrayed

Medicine Man has concocted a potion to see
Animal Spirits have filled me and leads what's to be
Runningwolf, eagle eyes, blood running cold in my veins
Great Spirit laughs as my enemies run from my reign

To be rising chief I have traveled a hundred fold days
Wandered dark wilderness ravens have gathered my ways
Look in my eyes your demise is what is fueling my rage
For I am the one whom by others is called Fire Face

06   Master of Fists (10:06)

Anger flows, warriors call
Focused eyes see thru them all
Teachers death was a con
Jeet Kun Do avenging one

Streamline form, flying kicks
Warriors fall from powered hits
Mesmerized speed and fury
Numchuckas crush skulls with their flurry

Snap of the dragon
Crack like a whip
You cannot defy
The Master of Fists

Bender of will
Defender of bliss
Enters the dragon
The Master of Fists

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