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High On Fire is a stoner metal band originally formed from the remnants of the legendary stoner band Sleep. Matt Pike, from Sleep, sings and plays guitar in High on Fire and founded the band with George Rice (bass) and Des Kensel (drums). The remaining members of Sleep, bassist Al Cisneros and drummer Chris Hakius, went on to form the duo OM, which retains more of the original Sleep vibe of crushingly slow repeated riffing.

High on Fire’s sound is extremely heavy, drawing influences on the aforementioned Sleep, Motörhead, and even hardcore punk.

The Oakland, California band formed in 1998 and released ‘The Art of Self Defense’ on Man’s Ruin Records, in March 2000. After Man’s Ruin Records folded, the album was re-released via Tee-Pee Records on CD and vinyl with new artwork and two bonus tracks: Steel Shoe (an original) and The Ursurper (Celtic Frost).

Following, the band signed with relapse records and released ‘Surrounded by Thieves’ in 2002, with production help from Billy Anderson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Anderson_%28music%29). Founding member and bass player George Rice, would leave the band shortly before recording the next album.

In 2004, Relapse and Throne Records released the ‘Live from the Contamination Festival’ CD and LP (respectively) which was recorded in Philadelphia, PA. The CD is limited to 2000 copies and the LP only 1000.

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stoner metal, doom metal, sludge, metal, stoner rock
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AstroZomb1e wrote:
4 hours ago

Saw them in Atlanta in Nov. and now im a fan.

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HilariousBeard wrote:
7 hours ago

New album needs to arrive ASAP.

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Jetfuel495 wrote:
16 hours ago

I saw HOF live at Gigantour back in 08. They only played 3 songs, but they played the hell out of them.

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silentEviL_ wrote:
Saturday morning

зае6ись...

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SothO wrote:
Friday morning

what's up with opening for shitty bands. First Dethklok, now Lamb of God?

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kotonashi wrote:
Thursday evening

dragontaurus, do you really understand or can imagine what you mean by your nickname?

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ZA_WARUDO wrote:
Thursday afternoon

After listening to one of their studio albums, I suppose that High on Fire isn't so bad. I have no idea what the hell happened live though.

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Shellath wrote:
Thursday morning

I think it's not so much that Converge sucks, they just aren't a band that you would expect at a large venue. Converge to me is a band that does best in small, more intimate venues. They sure as hell don't deserve all the flak they are getting.

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discordia23 wrote:
last week

What's wrong with DragonTaurus?

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guchy_84 wrote:
last week

DragonTaurus, You suck!!!

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ZA_WARUDO wrote:
last week

Not gonna lie, they sounded like shit live. I haven't really listened to any of their albums yet though so I'm not gonna say anything besides that...

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DragonTaurus wrote:
last week

They suck.

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CosmicFugue wrote:
last week

Yeah, exactly. What's wrong with Converge? :/

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noiwudnttrip wrote:
last week

They suck.

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OmegaII wrote:
last week

What's wrong with Converge?

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noiwudnttrip wrote:
last month

These guys rip. Drummer tears shit up! Saw them in San Jose at Dethklok show and heard they're opening for Slayer so I'll see them there too. Can't believe Converge went on after these guys.

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LastfmPolice wrote:
last month

Best stoner metal band playing right now

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margotkidder wrote:
last month

this band has something which few others can even smell, let alone get close to. @Boomsars: wrong. so wrong.

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speedemon86 wrote:
last month

DitC, while excellent, is still the least of their works. Sorry to break the news to all the newcomers.

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tr00erthantr00 wrote:
last month

This band rules!

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