World-renowned power trio HIGH ON FIRE has announced December, 2009 Australian tour dates alongside Lamb of God. The metal heavyweights will join forces beginning December 11 in Brisbane as part of a touring bill that will also include Devildriver and Shadows Fall. The just-announced expedition’s complete itinerary can be found below.
Universally recognized as one of the most potent acts in music today, HIGH ON FIRE creates “bad-ass” modern metal that merges primal fury and aggression, skyscraping riff explosions and hesher bombast with a monolithic heaviness. Described as “a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume and sheer heaviness,” HIGH ON FIRE has burned the hard rock rulebook since its formation in 1998, forging a style and sound that is both unique and absolutely crushing. The group features vocalist and cult guitar hero Matt Pike, powerhouse drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz. Pike, a founding member of the famed underground band SLEEP and one of heavy music’s most charismatic figures was named as one of Rolling Stone’s “New Guitar Gods”.
HIGH ON FIRE’s long-awaited, fifth studio album and follow-up to 2007’s Death is This Communion is currently nearing completion. The award-winning band worked with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slayer, Johnny Cash) at Los Angeles’ The Pass Studios with the goal of capturing “the ultimate High on Fire experience.”
HIGH ON FIRE will be touring along the East Coast with Lamb Of God, Devil Driver and Shadows Fall this December.
“HIGH ON FIRE is the sludgy resin from 30 years of super-hard-rock history transubstantiated into three men from Oakland with low-slung jeans” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Like Cream on a rocket to hell. HIGH ON FIRE dish out low-frequency terror that turns your innards to black tar.” – ROLLING STONE
“Imagine Metallica and Motorhead’s classics played in fast-forward. That’s what this trio sounds like: an aggressive assault led by frontman Matt Pike’s frightening roar.” – SPIN
“Guaranteed to alter heart rhythms and weaken building infrastructures…as powerful and gargantuan a threesome as metal has produced” – PITCHFORK
High On Fire – Death is This Communion for sale now on iTunes
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