Blessed Black Wings

Blessed Black Wings is the third studio album by heavy metal band High on Fire, released February 1, 2005 through Relapse Records. This album also would be the only with Joe Preston on bass who would be replaced by Jeff Matz. The tracks "The Face of Oblivion" and "Cometh Down Hessian" are based on stories by horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and The Hound, respectively. The vinyl version was released as a double LP and contains a bonus track, "Rapid Fire," originally by Judas Priest. Blessed Black Wings was voted 48th in the '50 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century' by Kerrang! magazine.