Latest Release
- 19 APR 2024
- 11 Songs
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
- Cometh the Storm · 2024
Essential Albums
- When Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister was still alive, Matt Pike—singer/guitarist in High On Fire and the iconic stoner-metal band Sleep—often found himself compared to the late legend. Once, he even dreamed that Lemmy got mad at him about it. So, three years after the legendary frontman died of cancer, Pike’s Oakland-based sludge trio released a tribute album in his honour. It’s their most diverse—and maybe best—record yet. The riffs are loud, the rhythms are dizzying and the Motörhead influence is obvious, but it’s still very much a High On Fire album. Land speed record contenders such as “Spewn From the Earth” and “God of the Godless” sit alongside more than 10 minutes of crushing doom in “Sanctioned Annihilation”. The title track, directly inspired by Pike’s dream, pays homage to the late, great Ace of Spades himself. Loud, brutal, nostalgic: Electric Messiah is proof that 20 years in, High On Fire are only getting better.
- 2005
Albums
- 2024
- 2018
- 2015
- 2012
- 2005
Music Videos
- 2024
- 2024
- 2016
- 2012
Artist Playlists
- Pummeling doom metal powered by vicious thrash riffs.
Singles & EPs
- 2019
Live Albums
About High On Fire
When stoner rock mavens Sleep called it quits in the late 1990s, guitarist Matt Pike formed the doom metal band High on Fire. Surely one of the most muscular power trios since Motorhead, High on Fire are also reminiscent of genre defining metal acts such as Celtic Frost, Slayer, and, of course, Black Sabbath. Yet the Oakland-based band has a broad artistic vision and a diverse musical pallet, positioning them firmly within a new movement in heavy metal in the early 2000s that appeals as much to indie rockers, punks, and avant-gardists as it does to traditional metalheads.
- ORIGIN
- Oakland, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1998
- GENRE
- Metal