is preston on the new album/tour?
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 15 June 2007 08:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Preston's long gone (he can't stay in any band for more than 12 months, it would seem). The new bass player is Jeff Matz from Zeke, who was already touring with them at this time last year. I did see them twice on the UK tour with Preston on bass and it was an awesome thing to behold - as my mate pointed out at one point during the set - "he's playing that bass like a piano" (sounds better in a Scouse accent).
― myopic_void, Friday, 15 June 2007 10:41 (sixteen years ago) link
UK/Europe tour dates announced; UK dates are with Russian Circles:
September 1 Birmingham, UK The Barfly
September 2 Glasgow, UK Nice N' Sleazy
September 3 Manchester, UK Jabez Clegg
September 4 Bristol, UK The Cooler
September 6 London, UK Underworld
September 7 Paris, France Gibus
September 8 Antwerp, Belgium Trix Club
September 9 Dortmund, Germany FZW
September 10 Berlin, Germany Bastard
September 11 Tilburg, Netherlands 013
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 July 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
And a new track, "Rumours of War," is up:
http://www.myspace.com/HighOnFireSlays
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
"RumOURS"? Pike's an anglophile now?
― Bill Magill, Friday, 13 July 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
New album is good
― Reatards Unite, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Very possibly great. Time will tell.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Best yet. (even) More consistent than BBW.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
listening to Art of Self Defense tonight, haven't heard it in ages...underpraised album! gonna go see 'em tomorrow, fuck yeah - I haven't seen them since...well...the Art of Self Defense tour
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 01:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably the most retarded (for the listener)/insane live band I've ever seen in terms of sheer musical force....just awesome. The volume they play at should not even be legal.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
John OTM. Much as I've loved everything since, they still haven't topped the debut. More groove and variety, plus killer songs. And, yeah, one of the very best live bands I've seen in the last half decade.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 05:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Art of Self Defense just fucking crushes. The bass intro to "Fireface", goddamn.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
That's the only HoF album I don't own and haven't heard. I need to rectify that.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Big time, you won't be disappointed.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Fireface, hell yeah. And 10,000 Years might be the best thing they've done yet.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Last, Bagdhad, the Celtic Frost cover. We could go on.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Awesome album
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Going to see them tonight for the second time. Hopefully I'll remember it this time. Fuck yeah.
― Reatards Unite, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Last night we listened again to "Death is this communion" for the first time in a lot of time and it is really really good. A couple of songs are just immense.
― Marco Damiani, Saturday, 3 January 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Some PR news:
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HIGH ON FIRE SET TO BEGIN WORK ON NEW ALBUM
World-renowned power trio HIGH ON FIRE will begin work on its long-awaited, fifth studio album and follow-up to 2007’s Death is This Communion this August. The esteemed band will commence pre-production in Los Angeles with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slayer, Johnny Cash) and the goal of capturing “the ultimate High on Fire experience.”
The new HIGH ON FIRE album is slated for an early 2010 release. When asked for comment, Pike states, “We look forward to sharing the dark seas of our new riffs and tragic stories. Soon the next saga of High on Fire's world will be known.”
All reports indicate the new HIGH ON FIRE material to be “heavier, louder and more intricate.” Prior to entering the studio, the Oakland-based band will embark on a string of California live dates set to kick off on August 7 in Eureka, CA. The group is expected to preview some of its new material live for the very first time at these shows.
HIGH ON FIRE tour dates:(all dates include support from Early Man)
August 7 Eureka, CA NoctumumAugust 8 Sacramento, CA HarlowsAugust 10 Fresno, CA StarlineAugust 11 Modesto, CA Fat CatAugust 12 Long Beach, CA Alex's BarAugust 15 San Diego, CA Casbah (w/ Earthless)
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That San Diego show = holy shit. But I'll be in Carmel, so alas.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah that San Diego show sounds awesome. Too bad its, y'know, in San Diego. But very very glad to hear they are diving into a new album.
― 3 mods 1 banhammer (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
all their albums are awesome
― Trey Tsongas (J0hn D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
New riffs AND tragic stories. I wuv that bruv.
― bendy, Friday, 31 July 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck yes
http://action-pr.com/uploads/art/203/HIGH%20ON%20FIRE_Snakes_for_the_Divine_album_cover.jpg
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
DAMMIT I was literally about to post that.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
holy fucking frank frazetta!
― kamerad, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
is that the same dude that did molly hatchett covers?
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wow
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, he put the death dealer on their debut album. and i think something on their second one too?
― kamerad, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
anyways guessing arik moonhawk did snakes for the divine like the others? dude rules
― kamerad, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god that is perfect
― hairylaser micropenis pavilion (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
That is indeed Arik Moonhawk with another awesome D20+10 roll.
― Doran, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― love and flowers and things that don't explode (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
if it were frazetta there'd be more ass and butt dimples btw dudes
did anybody see those frazetta comic books last year
― Herodcare for the Unborn (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Not on Relapse?
― bendy, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Same guy that did this cover?
http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/s/shrinebuilder-shrinebuilder.jpg
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Same color tones, lots of snakes...
I don't see it in the first couple pages of his gallery but he's done tons of album covers
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago) link
If you grow up with a name like Arik Moonhawk do you think it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that you will become righteous?
"We don't have any openings for clerks in this company Mr Moonhawk. Have you considered painting dragons flying out of the blazing fires of Hell?"
― Doran, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
When is this thing being released????????!!!!!!
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
February 23rd.
― Doran, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
best fucking band
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://c1rcaselect.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/VICE_RoperCover.jpg
― i want more SBs, lots of SBs (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently new album gonna influenced by lizard peepz
― ke$nan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Pike, like Scott "Wino" Weinrich, is a devotee of David Icke's theories about lizard people secretly ruling the earth. There was a song about it on Death Is This Communion and one of the Hidden Hand albums recommended an Icke book in the liner notes.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Monday, 11 January 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
what? stoners...into wacky conspiracy theories?
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Monday, 11 January 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
its pretty sad when icke is taken seriously and not dismissed as the ex snooker commentator who is clearly insane and made an arse of himself on live tv 20 years ago.
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 11 January 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
damn americans! ;)
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 11 January 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i wouldn't say "devotee." pike told me he's skeptical on the existence of liz peepz, but finds the subject fascinating and the perfect topic for metal songs
― ENN-Bomb (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 January 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Like seeing how glaring the holes were or something
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
Oh there was definitely a time in my life I would have checked one of his books out from sheer curiosity, had I been aware enough to care.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Doing some googling, yeah, it's def. a weird purgatory of repurposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a lizard people parable drawn from life, but the lizards are not, Icke insists, not Jews, just all powerful Zionists who *happen* to be actual, real space lizards.
I dunno, I didn't waste any more time on him. Pike, it's hard to tell what's up with Pike, though if you told me he believed or believed in literally anything it wouldn't come as a shock. Iirc the dude is even anti-earplug.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
No interest in defending the guy, especially if there's more questionable beliefs of his I haven't stumbled across before, but he always struck me more as the old fashioned aliens and Illuminati corner bar type conspiracy theorist than the more dangerous, anti-vax, Q adjacent always online modern type conspiracy theorist.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
Very contrarian "I would never belong to any club that would have me as a member" vibe.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
he seems more to just be into the lizard people conspiracy thing from a "this is batshit sci-fi fodder for kick-ass metal songs", I haven't gotten the sense that it's too engrained but I could be wrong.
― bendy, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link
The line between aliens and Illuminati and Q has gotten thinner over time - the kooks were never quite as harmlessly goofy as we wanted to believe.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 3 February 2022 00:16 (two years ago) link
I think they were slightly more harmless before they were able to congregate online and stoke each others batshit.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 February 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
a friend posted about this interview on FB with the "anarchist libertarian" bit, and I was like, "uh, I wonder if he's still in Oakland?" and then I skimmed the interview and lol of course he moved to Portland
― sarahell, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Matt Pike seems like the sort of dude who lives wherever he wakes up. Did you see that thing about his amputated toe?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
No surprise, the new song is pretty rad, but cliche or not it concerns me a little that Pike would name the album and song "Cometh the Storm." Given his predilections, he's the last guy I'd want talking about a coming storm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVr9AU9gMfo
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:22 (one week ago) link