Tag Archive: High On Fire

Allow Me To Feign Interest In The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival For A Moment

Filed Under: General News, Tours and Rumors of Tours

Jan.27, 2012

The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is probably the biggest commercial metal tour in the United States since its inception in 2008. There was a point in my life when I would have loved the shit out of this tour, but I don’t see much to get excited for as far as my own enjoyment is concerned. Not to talk down on the tour or the bands on it; I’m glad there are more huge metal tours like Mayhem making their way across North America than there were when I was first getting into the genre. Hell, I wouldn’t even mind seeing Slipknot, as they’re a band that really pulled me into more aggressive music. I just can’t help but feel underwhelmed, you know? I’m busy being stoked on the possibility of catching Cannibal Corpse, BTBAM, The Faceless, and more on this year’s Summer Slaughter (which will be announced next week. God, I hope I’m right about that lineup).

But some of you are probably excited for Mayhem Fest, and that’s awesome. This year’s lineup is better than last year’s from where I’m sitting, and features Slipknot, Slayer, Anthrax, The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria, As I Lay Dying, Whitechapel, and High on Fire. Some of these bands are pretty awesome. Some of them.

After the jump, you can peruse the large list of dates to find your hometown or a city in close proximity!

- JR

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Tags: Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, Asking Alexandria, High On Fire, ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL, Slayer, Slipknot, the devil wears prada, Whitechapel

Black Tusk – Set the Dial

Filed Under: Reviews

Sep.27, 2011

Black Tusk

Set the Dial

01. Brewing the Storm
02. Bring Me Darkness
03. Ender of All
04. Mass Devotion
05. Carved in Stone
06. Set the Dial to Your Doom
07. Resistor
08. This Time is Divine
09. Growing Horns
10. Crossroads and Thunder

[10/25/11]
[Relapse Records]

For quite a while now, Georgia has breed its fair share of bands that all utilize that brand of southern-tinged music, albeit to a much heavier degree. Bands like Mastodon, Baroness and Kylesa have made a name for themselves and despite their different paths, they’ve all retained certain characteristics such as massive hulking riffs, booming vocals and an all around gritty sound. And in the case of their backwater brethren, Black Tusk, they are no different. But what sets Black Tusk apart from the other bands is there no holds barred approach to writing high-energy hard rock/metal music that bodes well their overall hell raising attitude. And with the release of their latest album, Set the Dial, Black Tusk continue that formula, bringing back that southern hospitality which will undoubtedly have you banging your head and stomping your feet!

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Tags: Baroness, Black Tusk, High On Fire, Kylesa, Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age, Set The Dial, Skeletonwitch, soundgarden

Sylosis – Edge Of The Earth

Filed Under: Reviews

Jun.15, 2011

Sylosis

Edge of the Earth

01. Procession
02. Sands of Time
03. Empyreal (Part 1)
04. Empyreal (Part 2)
05. A Serpents Tongue
06. Awakening
07. Kingdom of Solitude
08. Where The Sky Ends
09. Dystopia
10. Apparitions
11. Altered States of Consciousness
12. Beyond the Resurrected
13. Eclipsed
14. From The Edge Of The Earth

[03/15/11]
[Nuclear Blast]

I’m shamefully about three months behind on this review, and despite being added to my mental list of ‘bands I need to stop being a lazy dick about,’ once all the praise came in for Sylosis‘ sophomore release Edge of the Earth, I only recently even bothered listening to it. Go ahead and chalk that up to one of my biggest mistakes of the year. My mistake has been rectified. This particular four-piece from Reading, England combines classic Bay Area thrash with Swedish melodic death metal and a touch of progressive influence. Edge of the Earth is certainly one of the more exciting melodic extreme metal records so far this year.

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Tags: High On Fire, Neurosis, pink floyd, Rush, Sylosis, Trivium

Bands That Made Me Heavy: In Flames

Filed Under: Bands That Made Me Heavy

Jun.21, 2010

If you’ve been reading these posts, then you would have known by now that so far, there haven’t been any REAL metal bands yet in my listening habits. That all changed when my best friend at the time saw that I was getting into heavier music and recommended me a more melodic metal band to get me started: In Flames.

Normally when I check out bands, I grab the newest album. I don’t know why I do this, as time and time again I’ve seen bands slip downhill as their catalog goes on. The newest In Flames album at the time was Come Clarity. It took me some getting used to, as it was the heaviest thing I’ve been intently listening to. On first listen, it was just a bit too much, but it grew on me when I began to soak in the melodic guitar lines and hooks and dissect all the layers. The duet with clean female vocals in “Dead End” had me addicted, and the song “Take This Life” got constant repeated listens as time went on.

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Tags: 3 Inches Of Blood, Between The Buried and Me, Children of Bodom, High On Fire, In Flames, Job For A Cowboy, Megadeth, The Faceless

FROST HAMMER! DUN DUN DUN DUN

Filed Under: Video

Mar.10, 2010

High on Fire have premiered their new video for “Frost Hammer” over at Pitchfork. The song comes off of their new album Snakes for the Divine, which is a pretty awesome record if you haven’t given it a listen for some reason. It’s a cool video, and has exactly what you expect from the performance footage: Matt Pike without a shirt. Seriously, does he ever appear fully clothed? I saw High on Fire perform live on Gigantour ’08 and he didn’t wear a shirt then either. Weird. But he can pull it off, because he’s fucking Matt Pike and will ruin your shit if you look at him the wrong way. I read somewhere that he beat Mastodon’s Brent Hinds in a drunken fistfight. This guy is the physical embodiment of metal.

Anyway, without further digression here’s the video, which is apparently an “epic tale of a warrior’s sojourn to the cold and barren Plateau of Leng where he secures the fabled Frost Hammer that will be used to enact the final rites and complete the dark rebirth and reign of the Frost Child.” Awesome.

- JR

Tags: brent hinds, High On Fire, Mastodon, matt pike, Sleep

Leak: High on Fire’s Snakes for the Divine

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Feb.17, 2010

Oh shit. Matt Pike’s gonna kill somebody.

Snakes for the Divine, the highly anticipated follow up to 2007′s Death Is This Communion, hit the internet within the last couple of days. With the end of Did It Leak, it makes it harder to keep up with what new albums are floating around to sample. So this may have been around for a bit longer, but this is the first I’ve heard of it.

If you’d like to report any future metal album leaks, give us a shout at the email address at the right. It’s over there somewhere.

Snakes for the Divine is available legitimately February 23rd on E1 Records. Check out a YouTube video of “Frost Hammer” below if you’re in for a more legal taste of things to come.

- JR

Tags: e1 records, High On Fire, matt pike

High on Fire “MELT THROUGH THE ICE!”

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases

Jan.14, 2010

Remember when I said “Frost Hammer” had to be the cheesiest metal song title of the year so far, and that the song would most likely make up for it?

Well I was right. The song slays!

Stereogum is streaming High on Fire‘s new song “Frost Hammer” exclusively here. Sounds like High on Fire, but that’s expected. Although, vocals around 3:40? Totally Alice in Chains.

So this tasty jam is off of their upcoming fifth album, Tentacle Rape Snakes for the Divine, which is out February 23rd on E1 Records.

Tracklist is after the jump, because it doesn’t need to be on the front page twice.

- JR

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Tags: e1 records, frost hammer, High On Fire, snakes for the divine

High On Fire Unveil New Album Art

Filed Under: Upcoming releases

Jan.05, 2010

And I swear, I think I saw this in a hentai one time.

Snakes for the Divine is High On Fire‘s fifth studio album, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2007 opus Death Is This Communion. It’s currently slated for release on February 28 via E1 Music, formerly Koch Records. I was completely unaware that High On Fire no longer had a deal with Relapse. Crazy times.

Tracklist is as follows:

01. Snakes for the Divine
02. Frost Hammer
03. Bastard Samurai
04. Ghost Neck
05. Fire, Flood & Plague
06. How Dark We Pray
07. Holy Flames of the Fire Spitter
08. Mystery of Helm

Frost Hammer may be the most cliche metal song title I’ve ever heard so far this year, although the song probably makes up for it.

- JR

Tags: death is this communion, e1 records, High On Fire, koch records, matt pike, Relapse Records, snakes for the divine

Relapse Releases New Compilation That Kicks All Kinds Of Ass

Filed Under: Upcoming releases

Jun.02, 2009

01. BARONESS – “Isak”
02. GENGHIS TRON – “I Wont Come Back Alive”
03. TOMBS – “Gossamer”
04. COALESCE – “Wild Ox Moan”
05. THE END – “The Never Ever Aftermath”
06. BURIED INSIDE – “V”
07. ZOMBI – “Orion”
08. BURNT BY THE SUN – “Inner Station”
09. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “Dead As History”
10. DON CABALLERO – “Lord Krepelka”
11. MASTODON – “Mother Puncher”
12. KINGDOM OF SORROW – “Free The Fallen”
13. PIG DESTROYER – “Loathsome”
14. GRAVES OF VALOR – “Bridles Of Incitatus”
15. NECROPHAGIST – “Seven”
16. OBSCURA – “Incarnated”
17. TOXIC HOLOCAUST – “Wild Dogs”
18. HIGH ON FIRE – “Turk”
19. ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY – “Void Of Harmony”
20. PENTAGRAM – “Forever My Queen”
21. AMORPHIS – “Better Unborn”
22. BRUTAL TRUTH – “Evolution Through Revolution”
23. ORIGIN – “The Aftermath”

So much win on one album, it’s unbelievable. Relapse released the newest “Contamination“ label sampler exclusively as an iTunes digital album. “Contamination 2009“ includes all 23 tracks above for just $5.99, including an exclusive advance download of the new Coalesce track “Wild Ox Moan“ from their upcoming album “Ox”.

Baroness, Dillinger, Genghis Tron, Pig Destroyer, Necrophagist, High on Fire, Mastodon… *head spins*

Relapse has one of the best rosters of any metal label out there. Check this out.

- JR

New Job For A Cowboy Album Art is Kickass. Music is Pretty Okay, I Guess

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases

May.21, 2009

Job For A Cowboy‘s music never really stuck out to me all that much. I’m not saying it’s bad (although I’m sure Mitch would), I’m just saying it doesn’t appeal to me all that much. I saw them live last summer on Gigantour and they seemed pretty competent performing live. Sadly, I just wasn’t that into it. They kinda fell flat after High On Fire’s energy and I was waiting on Children of Bodom and In Flames to come on after them. Bad timing, I guess.

So anyway, given my pretty neutral opinion of JFAC, I must say their album artwork has always been pretty amazing. Behold, album art of Ruination, in stores July 7th on Metal Blade Records, as created by artist Brent Elliott White: