I like this album quite a bit, but “Matt Pike remains one of the last guitarists that remain able to compose an interesting guitar solo” is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. You really think he’s one of the ONLY guitarists in modern music that puts together compelling guitar solos? You need to branch out a bit.
You should write a review for Crack the Skye since it’s clear that that’s the album you actually wanted to review and Mastodon is the band you actually wanted to talk about. Got a chip on your shoulder about Mastodon and Converge? You’re not doing HOF much justice by airing your grievances in your review of their record.

Metal sucks and you’re all dorks.

great review. BULLSEYE on HOF and BULLSEYE on mastodon

I saw both bands together on tour in the early 0’s and they had the opposite effect; everyone vanished after Mastodon and HOF played to a half empty (small) room which was a shame as they were great.
Im glad Pike is still putting out records with them but after catching him with the Sleep guys doing Holy Mountain it would be nice if they could record together again.

I like all three bands! And they were all great when I saw them last fall, with Converge clearly stealing the show. So, fuck off.

… So if you want to listen to the exact opposite of High on Fire, visit Mix Cure!

i bet what happened was you were at a shitty metal show with high on fire full of smelly metal dorks and thats why the CROUD proabably made you think converge sucked live. If you were a hrdcore kid in the 90s and not a cali pole smoker then you could try and talk about converge like you know what the fuck your talking about homey. i should punch you in your face. our scene was the very progression of the underground punk/indie/diy movement strting back from when you didnt exist you coward. talk about the fucking black lips or some other little kid shit

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oh and Botch is better anyways

oh and i had we are the romans before it was even released because i saw botch in fuckin 99 probably a good 10 years before your dumb ass even heard of them.

@george clooney

what’s that they say about assumptions? Oh yeah they’re the mother of all fuckups……I live is Seattle homie so your comment “saw botch in fuckin 99 probably a good 10 years before your dumb ass even heard of them” makes you look even dumber then you already do. Oh but wait, there is more……Botch and Converge both put out their first records (well EP in Botch’s case) the same year ‘94. So again your comment, “botch probably loved converge before botch even had a record,” puts your foot squarely in your mouth. Apparently someone doesn’t know so much about the “scene” they so fiercely defend.

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt”…….maybe put some thought into this quote…..

do your research. converges first legit record came out in 94. botch put out a “self released casette” as in they werent even signed yet in 94. botch wasnt even on hydrahead until like 98. and they didnt even put out a good album until 99. take your own advice

@george clooney & gaydilla…….still the fact remains, signed or not both bands put out their first music in 94. So you’re comment “botch probably loved converge before botch even had a record” is FLAT OUT WRONG.

And this might come as a HUGE shock to you but music is subjective…..so unless there is an all mighty music god that pass judgement on all records, statements like “they didn’t even put out a good album until 99,” & “converge also already had 2 seminal albums out by the year before botch’s seminal album came out” is an opinion……as in NOT A FACT. Just like it’s my opinion that Botch IS WAY better then Converge…….Sux to be you if you can’t understand that as I’m sure you live a very angry life, which is pretty evident in your tough guy rant from earlier.

dude i love botch and converge. when i said botch probably loved converge before botch even had a record i was just trying to make the point that converge were basically already underground cult heroes be4 botch was popular in the national underground hc scene which is def true my dude honestly it is.

also my statement. they didn’t even put out a good album until 99,” & “converge also already had 2 seminal albums out by the year before botch’s seminal album came out” i stand by these statements

botch’s seminal album is “we are the romans”
converge had 2 classics “when forever comes crashing” and petitioning the empty sky” by the year before we are the romans came out. are you arguing that “we are the romans” is not botch’s seminal album? i personally know for a fact that many many people consider those two converge albums classics among 90’s hc/metal.

also “Converge definitely had a following in the underground for a couple of years before anyone started even hearing of botch” yeah clearly if your from botchs hometown your gonna have heard of them but for everyone else in the national hc community most people im frankly 100% sure heard of converge first.

converge is some of the worst/obnoxious crap i’ve heard. i have no desire to listen to 13 different songs being played at once while dino from the flinstones barks high school goth poetry over top. CRAP. eat shit clooney…

and i think you are hot george clooney… you know so much about dudes in bands… you might be a little gay? right? 10 beers and you might… i love HARDcore:)

mastodon at this point has put out a bunch of shitty ass records in my opinion but Remission is honestly an unbelievable album and is definitely a classic in its genre + that record fucking blows high on fire away by a million times. I defy anyone to listen to Remission and not think its not only better than this bullshit but it came out in 2002 and influenced the shit out of this band.The thing thats so hilarious about some of you dumbasses especially the writer dumbass is that yous dont even realize that this fuckin record sounds SOOO influenced by Mastodon its absurd. Mastodon are the fathers of this sound. Listening to Frosthammer it reeks of being influenced by mastodons whole style. The shitty singing part in frosthammer sounds like the shitty singing parts that mastodon eventually starting doing which lead to them being somewhat accessible to people outside of hc/metal Some of these grooves and the drummers fills and the song structures its very similar to Mastodon. The production and the guitar sound also sounds like Mastodon. These were sounds invented by mastodon. Its not because their both metal bands and their both gonna have similar sounds. Also Yeah cool he plays a shitty fucking metal solo who gives a fuck? i stopped giving a fuck about finger tapping and dimebag darrel dicksucking when i was fuckin 11. Converge and Mastodon at their peak are both of a higher artistic caliber than “High on fire” and they both pushed the boundaries and the very genre of music whose roots lie in the early 80s hc movement and before that, punk. anybody worth a dime of knowledge about this music would know that. This guy doesnt know what hes talking about at all. high on fire are retread band pulling the same tricks out of the same tired bag as everyone else who wasnt an innovator in this genre by recycling old ideas and biting an assortment of new ones.

fag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcB2F1r8X4Y&feature=related

u fucking west coast pussies u wish you had something like this to be a part of in the 90s instead of fucking downset

Woah…That Converge video was fucking painful

Tyler is flat out wrong. and a douchebag.

This review is shit. Brian Carnahan sounds like every other fan boy there is. There is nothing constructive here, you are just singing empty praise. Go write for pitchfork.