High on Fire
In the past few decades, heavy metal has been through all sorts of Middle Earth rumblings, volcanic upheavals, and a completely unexpected series of pan-cultural, trans-genre conflagrations that would leave Odin scratching his beard in confusion. When some of biggest names in metal, e.g., Stephen O’Malley of iconic Sunn O))), owe more to minimalist composers like Tony Conrad than the hair-farming icons of yore, then there’s something weird cooking in the cauldron. The 1990s band Sleep were a prime example, eschewing head-banging crunch for mind-bending drones. Sleep lived up to their moniker, floating in languid, quicksilver ripples of extreme duration, extruding sound like iced molasses and moving through implacable, undulating figures at a... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Heavy Metal
- City Of Origin:
- San Francisco, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 1999
