Matt Pike Discography of CDs

Matt Pike songs While one would be hard-pressed to characterize any of the album's in High on Fire's devastating oeuvre as particularly "weak," there was certainly a mild sense of creative stasis hovering around the band's final efforts for Relapse; ...

Matt Pike music CDs Subtle is not a word that could ever be applied to Northern California doom-metallists Sleep. DOPESMOKER, a record with a backstory almost as interesting as the album itself, is about, oddly enough, smoking dope. Lots of it, ...

Matt Pike CD discography Matt Pike might be the most metal person alive. His dogmatic refusal to kowtow to trends is unparalleled for a relative young'un. He was stoner before stoner was cool (for the second time) with Sleep, and with ...

Matt Pike discography Three-year gaps between studio albums are no big deal if your heavy metal band happens to be named Metallica or Slayer, but it's bound to raise a few eyebrows when applied to mere mortals -- even mighty ...

Matt Pike albums Current titleholders of "metal band you may be able to get your indie-rock friend into", Oakland stalwarts High on Fire play their tar-black rumble metal like there's nothing else they'd rather be doing. Certainly the direct offspring ...

Matt Pike CD discography Since his early days as the creative engine behind the legendary band Sleep, guitarist-howler Matt Pike has--probably more than any other single artist--brought doom metal out of the shadows. With BLESSED BLACK WINGS, the sophomore release by ...

Matt Pike music CDs The late-1980s San Jose metal band Asbestosdeath only had a short existence before it became the more storied Sleep in the early 1990s. This brief CD EP contains the band's entire four-song recorded output, a collection of ...

Matt Pike songs "The Poached Diaries" finds Converge pushing their quirky, black version of screamy hardcore even further than before, with layered textures, throat-splitting emissions, and good old-fashioned metal riffs out the ass. Agoraphoric Nosebleed, as the name might suggest, ...

Matt Pike albums Live Recording Audio Mixer: Blair Calibaba. Recording information: GodCity Studios, Salem, MA; The Hive Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Photographers: Mike Witherspoon; Robby Redcheeks; The Sheep. Champion: Ben Colton (bass guitar); Jim Hesketh , Aram Arslanian, Chris "Kartier" Williams, Todd Preboski. Personnel: ...

Matt Pike discography Recorded at The Outpost, Stoughton, Massachusetts. Personnel: Matt Pike (vocals); Grail Mortillaro (guitar); Chris Bailey (drums). Recording information: The Outpost, Stoughton, MA. Photographers: John Chang; Bryan Sheffield; John McKaig; Tamara Johnson; Guav. Some Kind Of Hate: Matt Pike (vocals); Scott Peacock, ...

Matt Pike CD discography As the only album to see official release during Sleep's tenure, SLEEP'S HOLY MOUNTAIN epitomized the moment when stoner metallers learned to stop worrying and openly, unapologetically ape Black Sabbath. Not that there's anything wrong with that. ...

Matt Pike albums This album features 14 rare and out-of-print early tracks from Converge, the masters of modern, slit-your-wrists, terrifying metal. All the tracks have been remixed and remastered, so the sound is nothing less than satisfactory. There are some ...

Matt Pike music CDs Subtle is not a word that could ever be applied to Northern California doom-metallists Sleep. DOPESMOKER, a record with a backstory almost as interesting as the album itself, is about, oddly enough, smoking dope. Lots of it, ...

While plenty of indie rock bands are held high as symbols of creative freedom and integrity, few acts of any genre were willing to stand by their vision with the iron determination of California stoner rock titans ...