High on Fire & Kylesa @ Webster Hall (pics, video, setlist)
photos by Greg Cristman, words by BBG
Matt Pike of High on Fire @ Webster Hall
High on Fire descended upon a packed Grog Shop Friday night on top of a diverse three-band hard-rock bill and staked a powerful claim to the heavy metal throne with an hour-long display of brutally intelligent music.
Singer and guitarist extraordinaire Matt Pike is finally starting to show some signs of wear and tear on his face after about two decades of nonstop touring. So maybe he’s not literally immortal. We watched him effortlessly switch from the slower, spacier stoner-rock of the recent Sleep reunion to High on Fire’s relentless heavy metal in the space of just a few weeks. So we’d have to say he’s probably at least a demi-god.
[a review from the Cleveland show]
We’ve seen a lot of Torche lately, and it wasn’t that long before their headlining show at Webster Hall on Sunday night that we saw High on Fire either. The band played Gramercy and Music Hall of Williamsburg earlier this year, but we were happy to have them back.
Kylesa, who opened the Webster Hall show, on the other hand hadn’t played NYC since supporting Mastodon at Irving/MHOW in May of last year. And all three bands had the next night off of their tour together, which prompted Kylesa to schedule a surprise Monday show at Public Assembly. Pictures from that Brooklyn show with Hull are forthcoming, but you can dig on the rest of the Webster Hall pictures (Torche ones HERE), some video, and the setlists, below….
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Kylesa
High On Fire
High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine – Webster Hall, NYC – 10/24/10
HIGH ON FIRE – SETLIST 10/24/10
Frost Hammer
Turk
Waste of Tiamat
Blessed Black Wings
Fire, Flood and Plague
Baghdad
Bastard Samurai
Rumors of War
Silver Back
Snakes For The Divine
