Exhausting Fire

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Exhausting Fire
Exhausting Fire.jpg
Album cover artwork by Shaun Beaudry
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 2, 2015
RecordedFebruary 2015 – March 2015
StudioThe Jam Room
Columbia, South Carolina
Genre Sludge metal, heavy metal
Length45:02
Label Season of Mist
Producer Philip Cope
Kylesa chronology
Ultraviolet
(2013)
Exhausting Fire
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Consequence of Sound B [4]
Exclaim! 8 [5]
Magnet Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Metal Storm 6.5 [6]
Pitchfork 7.4 [7]
Punknews.orgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Spin 8 [9]

Exhausting Fire is the seventh full-length studio album by American sludge metal band Kylesa. It is the group's fourth album to be released through Season of Mist.

Contents

Reception

The aggregate review site Metacritic assigned an average score of 82 out of 100 to the album based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Crusher"4:55
2."Inward Debate"2:35
3."Moving Day"2:46
4."Lost and Confused"3:18
5."Shaping the Southern Sky"5:48
6."Falling"4:17
7."Night Drive"4:35
8."Blood Moon"4:37
9."Growing Roots"4:05
10."Out of My Mind"3:26
11."Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover; bonus track)4:40
Total length:45:02

Personnel

Exhausting Fire album personnel adapted from the CD liner notes. [10]

Kylesa

Guest musicians

Production

Album artwork

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Billboard Top Independent Albums [11] 48
Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums [11] 22
Billboard Top Heatseeker Albums [11] 7

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