Blessed Black Wings is the critically acclaimed third album from High on Fire

High on Fire

High on Fire is a stoner metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, previously played guitar for the influential stoner doom band Sleep.-History:...

. The vinyl version was released as a double LP and contains a bonus track, "Rapid Fire," originally by Judas Priest

Judas Priest

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...

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Both "The Face of Oblivion" and "Cometh Down Hessian" are based on stories by horror fiction

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 author H.P. Lovecraft. They are based on At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories...

and The Hound

The Hound

This page deals with the H. P. Lovecraft short story. For the character from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, see Sandor Clegane"The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales...

, respectively.

Blessed Black Wings was voted 48th in the 50 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century in Kerrang!

Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...

Track listing

1. "Devilution
   Devilution
   Devilution is a song by High on Fire in their album Blessed Black Wings.The song was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.The song has its own music video.- References :Blessed Black Wings...
   
   " – 4:46
2. "The Face of Oblivion" – 6:36
3. "Brother in the Wind" – 5:40
4. "Cometh Down Hessian" – 5:14
5. "Blessed Black Wings" – 7:43
6. "Anointing of Seer" – 5:39
7. "To Cross the Bridge" – 7:20
8. "Silver Back" – 3:14
9. "Sons of Thunder" – 7:12
10. "Rapid Fire" (Judas Priest
    Judas Priest
    Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1969. The current line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band has gone through several drummers over the years,...
    
     cover, Japanese vinyl only bonus track)

Personnel

• Matt Pike
  Matt Pike
  Matt Pike is an American rock musician best known as the guitarist of the influential doom metal band Sleep and frontman of High on Fire. He is quite well known in the metal scene for almost never wearing a shirt during live performances....
  
   – guitar, vocals
• Des Kensel – drums
• Joe Preston
  Joe Preston (bassist)
  Joe Preston is a rock bass guitarist and a former band member of Earth, The Melvins, Men's Recovery Project, The Need and High on Fire. Preston has also played with Sunn O))), and has a solo project called Thrones. Joe Preston learned bass from Alexander Giles. In 2007, he joined Harvey Milk in...
  
   – bass
• Greg Norman – AMP repair
• Produced by Steve Albini and High on Fire
• Engineered by Steve Albini and Russ Arbutgnot
• Mastered by John Golden
• Visuals by Arik Roper
  Arik Roper
  Arik Roper is a freelance illustrator and painter based in New York City. Born in New York City, Roper grew up in Richmond, Virginia. His parents both being artists, his creativity was encouraged and he spent a great deal of time drawing...