MY FIRST GLIMPSE of Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, from the window of an approaching Miami cab, brings on a feeling of vertigo, nausea, amazement, and distress. I shut my eyes in defense ...

“I never wanted to be just a doom band,” says frontman Matt Pike, who cut his metal teeth in the ’90s with drone legends Sleep. “When we formed High on Fire, I was thinking we’d be more ...