High on Fire. Brudenell Social Club. Leeds 2022.
On a hot midsummer day in England in 2022 Matt Pike and his band, High on Fire, made it rain. The tribes were gathering outside The Brudenell in Leeds and at first it looked like a pissing contest about who was wearing the most obscure band name t shirt. We all managed to squeeze into the sweaty venue when opening act Dvne ceremoniously set the scene with some virtuoso guitar playing and top level screaming. Well done. What we all wanted now though was the sonic Spetsnaz to drag Zelensky on stage, slap a Ukraine flag emoji to his forehead and hack his head off with a blunt longsword. In other words we wanted liberation! We wanted heavy 60 tonne tanks to roll over libtard eggshell minds and we wanted to hear them pop whilst leaving behind nothing but the red slime of insincerity and cowardice. The UK is now a big open air easy going prison and as High on Fire walk around Oakland California with Glocks concealed in lumberjack shirts. We English settle for home made shank...