High on Fire will release its new LP, Cometh the Storm, on April 19 through MNRK Heavy. The band recorded the album at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts with producer Kurt Ballou. The 11 song effort marks the release of the first new High on Fire music since 2018’s Electric Messiah and the first to feature drummer Coady Willis, alongside bassist Jeff Matz, and guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike. And now, High on Fire has shared a music video for the new album’s title track, which is directed by Phil Mucci for Diabolik Films.
While talking about the band’s latest ditty, Matz said: “Cometh the Storm’ was built from a riff I started playing on bass at practice. I was noodling around with this melancholic harmonic minor line, just hammering the notes with my left hand, when Matt yelled out “Are we recording this!?” The chorus riff was something Coady and I came up with when we were jamming in LA. Matt then came in and worked up some rough lyrics and came up with the vocal line.
The guitarist adds: “For the chorus, I used this fretless bass I’d acquired. The weight of the low frequencies this thing produced was insane—how it blended with the guitars and drums, it was like being hit with a sledgehammer. We knew right away that this was going to be an epically heavy track.”
Photo Credit: Ekaterina Gorbacheva
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