Live at the Relapse Contamination Festival

High On Fire | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relapse
• ASIN: B000AQD99I
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Captured at the legendary Relapse Contamination Festival in 2003, this record is a testament to the live juggernaut that IS HIGH ON FIRE! The band tears through a vicious, 8 song set including classics "Hung, Drawn, & Quartered", "Blood From Zion" and the only official recording of HIGH ON FIRE covering the VENOM classic Witching Hour!

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal!, January 25, 2006

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Bart Bizeur "B&B" (Ghent, Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Relapse Contamination Festival (Audio CD)

Matt Pike & Co are the new gods of metal. Scorching guitar riffs, tribal & thundering drums, thick bass lines & above all Pike's hoarse vocals. All this brought to you live.
They throw in a great Venom cover (Witching Hour) for good measure. Great!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Metal Masterpiece, January 30, 2011

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J. D. Garrick "heavyfuzz" (Guilford, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Relapse Contamination Festival (Audio CD)

I'm biased towards this trio from Oakland, but this recording rates as my favorite metal album, period. It's next to impossible to rate the metal gods of the past, and I've enjoyed many of them, to a modern act like High on Fire--because it's is like comparing Babe Ruth to Albert Pujols--but the Live at Relapse recording is just too sustainable a work to submit to the others. Its adherance to the no-nonsense, crushing riffs and throbbing pulse of its incomparable live act, coupled with the clean production on this recording, gives creedence to the band's claims as an authentically one-of-a-kind metal act. The technical mystique of High on Fire--from the Soldano cabinets, the hollow-tube amps and 12-string guitar with Matt Pike's "chorusy effects" are all in evidence here, and the suddeness of each song's beginning is pleasurably harsh. There is a raggedness to this recording that balances with the tight precison of the performance that is almost unheard of on most live albums. While I certainly enjoy the Old Masters in Zeppelin, Sabbath and Metallica and am always on the lookout for new artists (The Sword comes to mind) to stoke my metal passion, it is Live at Relapse I can't seem to stay away from for long.

5.0 out of 5 stars YOU WILL LISTEN!!!, September 9, 2011

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BEERBONG BERZERKER (The Rocky Mountains) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Live at the Relapse Contamination Festival (Audio CD)

Not for people who like crying. This will kick you in your pathetic Emo guts until youre bleeding from your mascara-smeared eyesockets!
This is a great quality recording of a high energy performance recorded and released between "Surrounded by Thieves" and "Blessed Black Wings", which was my favorite HOF period. Its not hard to imagine that their set dominated the festival, laying waste to all the other bands, and pounding every beer-soaked brain in the audience into jelly. Definitely proves that they were, and still are, the real deal! Just 3 dudes on a stage totally kickin everyones ass! It doesn't get any heavier, especially for a live recording! Own it!