Album Review: High On Fire - Luminiferous

The Cali doom/metal giants return with seventh album, Luminiferous, a decent effort that looks at the sinister string-pullers popular with conspiracy nuts, and comes out swinging.

Kurt Ballou’s (Converge) production pushes everything up front and frontman Matt Pike’s mouth-full-of-rocks growl is tempered a little in favour of bigger guitars. Slave The Hive and the title track are HoF at their thrashy best, but sludgier psychedelic efforts like The Falconist and The Cave don’t quite land any punches. It probably won’t win new fans, but it’s another great throwback record from the guys who do it best.