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Healing Through Fire (Bonus Dvd) (Pal)

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Healing through fire is a very good record. Having never heard anything from orange goblin before i picked this up because of the positive things i read in metal magazines and i was pleasently surprised. I have heard orange goblin labled as a doom band and although that is close to me their songs sound more like jam sessions, that is the best way i can describe them. Highlights are the ballad of solomon eagle,vagrant stomp,the ale house braves,hounds ditch,they come back(harvest of skulls), and beginners guide to suicide.

This is an absolutely fantastic album. Great riffs, and great headbanging stuff. Interesting lyrics, too!! I have a few of their albums, and this is the most accessible if you are just getting into them. Their older stuff has more of a psychedelic tinge to it. A definite must for fans of Electric Wizard, Sabbath, Candlemass, etc.!!! Highly recommended!!!

This is a nice album generally. Im betwwen is just ok and i like it. Its not so good as Time travelling Blues whis is their best till this day and if you like stoner rock then this album is a must - yiu will definitely like it. This album has some good times (the first 3 songs and The song: They come back, are good songs and like them . Im not crazy about these songs but they are good. The other songs are too average - the just ok factor i was telling about. On the other way if you are a huge fan of then then by all means buy this album as with their first album are their best choices. If you are new start with Time Travelling blues -iM sure you will like this album.

Orange Goblin is an excellent doom metal/hard rock band and this cd is a solid all around offering. in my opinion this is their second best album, being beaten only by The Big Black. Buy it, you will like it.

Orange Goblin have never let me down. Each release seems to get better and better and so does this! One of the better stoner rock bands mixed with the Motorhead for good measure. Not for the weak and a must for any true metal fan.

Orange Goblin illustrates the problems with sub-categories in metal. They've been categorized as both stoner metal and doom metal, and these days they've got some cowpunk in 'em too. But they probably don't care about narrow labels, so why should you? All that matters is that Orange Goblin delivers a pummeling good time with sludgy riffs and brutal beats that aren't messing around. Singer Ben Ward earns extra props for avoiding that annoying extreme metal growl that makes everyone sound the same, and he sings with true force and personality.

This album shows Orange Goblin adding more and more power to their formerly stoner-ish sound, especially in the unforgiving opener "The Ballad of Solomon Eagle" and the mesmerizing "Cities of Frost," though the band does slow things down occasionally to make their points clearer, like in portions of "Hot Knives and Open Stores." The only misstep on the album is the short interlude "Mortlake (Dead Water)" in which the band lets their British roots show with a fey medieval instrumental. It's musically impressive but derails the force of the album a bit. But Orange Goblin then gets back on track without delay, finishing up with the weird western-fried epic "Beginner's Guide to Suicide." Add in the gruesome and occasionally creepy lyrics about mass death in the plague, and Orange Goblin have delivered a throbbing slab of metal that should be getting more respect from in-the-know fans. [~doomsdayer520~]

Not Hard Core or Doom "No screeming or growling,they sing"this makes my 6th O.G. CD and it is another good one.Hard rocking and jamming is what O.G. is all about and this is no exception.Good jod from the U.K. band at not being caught up in the crapy Metal of todays bands.And doing what they have been doing for a long time, Jam & Rock Hard.

However you categorize Orange Golbin - stoner rock, doom, metal, etc., - well, Healing Through Fire is nothing short of incendiary. And they continue to defy categories. "The Ballad of Solomon Eagle" is no ballad; it rocks harder than most any opener out there yet. Then Ben Ward shouts "GO!" and you're off to "Vagrant Stomp," an apocalyptic love song / funeral dirge; then you're brought back down to a heavy metal-boogie-musclebound-drinking song called "The Ale House Braves." Then it's a Doom-blackened salute to death: "Cities of Frost". "Hot Knives and Open Sores" picks up that theme and carries it to a higher-toned hard rock beat with a psychotic, murderous soliloquy in the middle of the song. "Mort Lake (Dead Water)" is a very short instrumental. And then you come to what's already a fan-favorite: the zombie-tune, "They Come Back (Harvest of Skulls)." Ben Ward somehow carries off the chorus "Rot . . . Rise . . . They come back to take the living!" beautifully. And just in case the long-time fans were worried that OG had forgotten where they came from, the cd closes with "Beginners Guide to Suicide," a song I can only call Doom-Metal-Space-Fuzz. The DVD captures OG in one of their favorite haunted beer dives in London that could admittedly benefit from a good mixing job. But the show and the audience are rampaging. The set list has "Solomon Eagle" and "They Come Back" from this cd and all the best from time-tested cds like Thieving from the House of God, The Big Black, Frequencies from Planet Ten, and Time Traveling Blues. Ben Ward is awesome with static poses that are monumental crazed / drunken madman faces that gets the crowd jumping so that he can get his two-armed devil-horn pump going. Intermingled with the live performace are a few clips of an interview and some cameos of OG in the studio. On the DVD, OG say they got flack from record execs for going in so many directions. But as far as the music goes, this is the best all-out metal that competes with --if not beats to a pulp -- anything 2007 has seen yet (in my opinion). If you're into metal, and you miss this, I promise you that people are going to keep telling you how good this is and go on and you'll be buying it later anyway.