Luminiferous
by High On Fire

Luminiferous by High On Fire
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-06-16
Overall rank: 19,980th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 21 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (430th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (4,325th)
Award Best albums of all time (19,980th)

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High On Fire bestography

Luminiferous is ranked 9th best out of 9 albums by High On Fire on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by High On Fire is Death Is This Communion which is ranked number 8608 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 145.

High On Fire album bestography « Higher ranked (19,139th)
Electric Messiah
This album (19,980th)
Luminiferous
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Luminiferous track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Luminiferous rankings summary
Overall rank: 19,980th | 2010s rank: 4,325th | 2015 rank: 430th  Overall chart history
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Luminiferous ratings

Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 21 votes)
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09/07/2026 15:53 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100
 
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01/03/2025 19:42 davidleewrong  Ratings distribution  2,35781/100

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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.5.


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Luminiferous forum mentions

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“Release Date: June 16, 2015 Genre(s): Sludge Metal Origin: United States Anybody listening? This is what “true” Sludge Metal sounds like. It’s dirty, fast, stupid, drunk, and loud— a fact that is evident if anybody ever listening to staple classics of the genre like Iron Monkey or Eyehategod. Now…”
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80/100
From 06/22/2015 15:33 | #144389
I doubt this will beat the Deftones album when that comes out, but that's because i'm a huge Deftones fan, so that's sorta unfair to say. This is a very good album considering the genre.
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From 06/19/2015 06:55 | #144163
This will be tough to beat for metal album of the year. Very few do it better and this album shows that.
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