- Country: United States
- Style: Sludge metal / Stoner metal
- Label: E1 Music / Century Media Records
- Release date: 23 February 2010
Long songs, short fuses. The title track takes its sweet time telling you what kind of afternoon you are going to have, and the answer is a loud one. Matt Pike opens Snakes For The Divine with a riff that sounds like it was forged in a volcano and then thrown at your head.
Greg Fidelman produced it at The Pass Studios in Los Angeles, and for once High On Fire sound sharp instead of buried under their own fuzz. You can hear the drums. You can hear the bass. Nobody had to sacrifice the filth to get there. “Frost Hammer” gallops like Motörhead lost in a blizzard, “Bastard Samurai” slows down and gets mean, and “Fire, Flood & Plague” is thrash with the handbrake ripped out.
“How Dark We Pray” is the long, slow grind near the end, Pike sounding like he’s arguing with the sky. Bring a neck brace for “Holy Flames of the Fire Spitter”. Is it subtle? No. Did you come here for subtle? Arik Roper painted the cover. Act accordingly.
Best tracks:
Snakes for the Divine
Frost Hammer
Bastard Samurai
Fire, Flood & Plague
Author’s rating: 8.4/10
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