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High On Fire - Death Is This Communion flac album
  • Performer High On Fire
  • Title Death Is This Communion
  • Date of release 2013
  • Country US
  • Style Stoner Rock, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal
  • Other formats AC3 WAV MP4 MIDI AU ADX MOD
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1508 mb
  • Size FLAC 1451 mb
  • Rating: 4.7
  • Votes: 477

Death Is This Communion (stylized as Death,Is,This,Communion,) is the fourth studio album by heavy metal band High on Fire. It was released on September 10, 2007 in Europe and September 18 in the United States. The first pressing includes a bonus DVD featuring in-studio footage of the making of the album. It is the first album to feature Jeff Matz on bass guitar.

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If 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. I listened to it a dozen times before bothering to check the song titles

Death Is This Communion is an epic, utilizing more versatile structures than ever, lengthy songs, showy instrumentals, Middle Eastern influenced interludes and a dynamic that’s impressively wide in scope. Yet these songs still pummel every bit as hard as one would expect them to, maybe even more so. Matt Pike, Des Kensel and Jeff Matz haven’t so much razed the foundation so much as built higher turrets and ramparts, constructing a formidable fortress of an album, enormous and fearsome. As a matter of fact, all of Death Is This Communion kicks ass, which should really come as no surprise. That’s High On Fire’s . they just came equipped with greater weaponry this time around. No band today better combines a classic metal sound with such forward momentum and progression, and with an arsenal like this, they’re set to conquer anyone who dares challenge that notion.

High on Fire's 2007 album Death is This Communion succeeds at being a shining example of what heavy metal should sound like. I bought this album thinking it would be more doom metal than it turned out to be since the band is fronted by Sleep guitarist Matt Pike. Instead, this is more heavy/stoner metal sound than anything. It's pretty good and since it defied my expectations in a positive way, I can understand why it has been so highly acclaimed. One song after another, "Death Is This Communion" doesn't fail to deliver the goods if you wanna hear a well rounded metal album that's simultaneously original while paying homage to classic thrash metal. Play it for the whole family. There's something in for everybody.

Full album stream of HIGH ON FIRE's fourth studio release 'Death Is This Communion'. Track List: Fury Whip 0:00 Waste Of Tiamat 6:14 Death Is This Communion 11:58 Khanrad's Wall 20:32 Turk 22:59 Headhunter 28:02 Rumors Of War 29:26 DII 32:17 Cyclopian Scape 36:02 Ethereal 43:31 Return To NOD 50:28.

Tracklist Hide Credits

1 Fury Whip
Backing Vocals – Des Kensel, Jeff Matz
6:14
2 Waste Of Tiamat 5:44
3 Death Is This Communion 8:34
4 Khanrad's Wall
Lute [Tanbour], Twelve-String Guitar – Jeff Matz
2:26
5 Turk 5:03
6 Headhunter 1:23
7 Rumors Of War 2:51
8 DII
Mellotron – Tom Matz
3:45
9 Cyclopian Scape 7:29
10 Ethereal 6:56
11 Return To NOD 6:17

Credits

  • Bass – Jeff Matz
  • Design, Artwork [Additional Artwork] – Orion Landau
  • Drums – Des Kensel
  • Engineer, Mixed By, Recorded By, Producer – Jack Endino
  • Guitar, Vocals – Matt Pike
  • Mastered By – Alan Douches
  • Painting [Cover] – Arik Roper
  • Producer, Written-By – High On Fire

Notes

Release date is assumed from matrix number

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 7 81676 67052 9
  • Matrix / Runout: 04/10/2013 09:27:27.AM #100148 1997963 01
  • Mastering SID Code: IFPI LN08
  • Mould SID Code: IFPI J102

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
RR 6705-2 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(CD, Album) Relapse Records RR 6705-2 US 2007
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, Gre) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2007
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(LP, Album, Cle) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2007
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(2xLP, Album, RE, RP, Red) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2013
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(2xLP, Album, RE, RP) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2014

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Fury Whip
Backing Vocals – Des Kensel, Jeff Matz
A2 Waste Of Tiamat
B1 Death Is This Communion
B2 Khanrad's Wall
Lute [Tanbour], Twelve-String Guitar – Jeff Matz
B3 Turk
C1 Headhunter
C2 Rumors Of War
C3 DII
Mellotron – Tom Matz
C4 Cyclopian Scape
D1 Ethereal
D2 Return to NOD

Companies, etc.

  • Recorded At – Avast! Recording Co.
  • Recorded At – Soundhouse Recording
  • Mixed At – Soundhouse Recording
  • Mastered At – West West Side Music
  • Published By – High On Fire Music
  • Published By – Relapse Release Publishing
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Relapse Records, Inc.
  • Copyright (c) – Relapse Records, Inc.
  • Pressed By – GZ Media – 178534E

Credits

  • Bass – Jeff Matz
  • Cover, Painting – Arik Roper
  • Design, Artwork [Additional] – Orion Landau
  • Drums – Des Kensel
  • Engineer, Mixed By – Jack Endino
  • Guitar, Vocals – Matt Pike
  • Mastered By – Alan Douches
  • Producer – High On Fire, Jack Endino
  • Written-By – High On Fire

Notes

Limited to 1245 copies. Issued in gatefold jacket with digital download code.

Recorded at Avast 2 and Soundhouse Recording, Seattle, WA.
Mastered at West West Side Music, New Windsor, NY.

℗&© 2007 Relapse Records Inc. Made in EU.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Printed): 7 81676 67051 2
  • Barcode (Scanned): 781676670512
  • Other (SKU, front sticker): LP4004R
  • Matrix / Runout (A side, stamped): RELAPSE RECORDS - RR6705-1 A 178534E1/B
  • Matrix / Runout (B side, stamped): RELAPSE RECORDS - RR6705-1 B 178534E2/A
  • Matrix / Runout (C side, stamped): RELAPSE RECORDS - RR6705-1 C 178534E3/A
  • Matrix / Runout (D side, stamped): RELAPSE RECORDS - RR6705-1 D 178534E4/A
  • Rights Society: ASCAP

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
RR 6705-2 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(CD, Album) Relapse Records RR 6705-2 US 2007
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, Gre) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2007
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(LP, Album, Cle) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2007
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(2xLP, Album, RE, RP, Red) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2013
RR 6705-1 High On Fire Death Is This Communion ‎(2xLP, Album, RE, RP) Relapse Records RR 6705-1 US 2014