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Oakland, San Francisco CA, United States (1998 – present)
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).
High on Fire’s sound is extremely heavy, drawing influences from the aforementioned Sleep, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, and 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.
‘Blessed Black Wings’, produced by Steve Albini, was released in early 2005, and was their first and only to feature Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, Thrones) on bass. The vinyl version as well as the Japanese CD version of this album had the Judas Priest song Rapid Fire as a bonus track.
High on Fire’s sound is extremely heavy, drawing influences from the aforementioned Sleep, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, and 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.
‘Blessed Black Wings’, produced by Steve Albini, was released in early 2005, and was their first and only to feature Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, Thrones) on bass. The vinyl version as well as the Japanese CD version of this album had the Judas Priest song Rapid Fire as a bonus track.
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Soundservant wrote:
v 'stoner' rock/metal does require the listener to smoke weed to enjoy the music. It simply is now used to define that particular sound into a genre. However this genre and many others are much more enjoyable when under the influence of pot. DO DRUGS, KID.
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Epsilon_X2008 wrote:
how exactly is this a "stoner" metal band? I've never smoked weed in my life and I think they're great. It's just metal to me..
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UndeadMessiah wrote:
Death Is This Communion is their best [2] Easily
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JesseMeeusen wrote:
"9000th track: (18 Oct 2011) High On Fire - Nemesis"
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stevepwn wrote:
FROST HAMMAR
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Kapper_Rocks wrote:
apparently the new albums done! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kurt-Ballou-OFFICIAL/139896472741624
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BurningRemnant wrote:
Death Is This Communion is their best, IMO with the rest being very even quality
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burgercock wrote:
TURK
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Tarinnz wrote:
love it!
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starbearer- wrote:
snakes for the divine is for sure my favorite song from them. I've listened to it on my Black Lion Audio 2 channel D/A prototype going through my personally modded krk rocket 8's. So f-ing metal!!!
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skullivan34 wrote:
Matt Pike runs the 9 string bizz: http://wp.me/p1x08C-78
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Nickisonfire33 wrote:
Seems Kurt Ballou is recording the new album. No doubt in my mind that it'll destroy every thing in its path.
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Barney9 wrote:
All HOF albums rock.
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UndeadMessiah wrote:
Snakes for the Divine just grew on me, and grew on me hard
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dxvolt wrote:
great band
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Tranos_Nihil wrote:
this is the most metal band in the world.
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SothO wrote:
wow the new songs are great
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DrKKE wrote:
\m/
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speedemon86 wrote:
New songs sound fun! I wondered if the Sleep shows might influence Matt at all... seems so!
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kotonashi wrote:
какой хороший мечта.
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JAPAN!!
23 Mar 2011 | from highonfire.net/blog1.php
We want to express our condolences to the people of Japan for
this terrible tragedy. As you may know, we were there and
felt this first hand and we share in this experience. We hope
to make it back to Japan soon!!
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22 Feb 2011 | from highonfire.net/blog1.php
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