As Expected, High On Fire’s New Single “Cometh The Storm” F*cking Rules
In a little over one week’s time, High on Fire‘s new album Cometh The Storm will be out in the wild. Needless to say, the level of excitement surrounding it around these parts is through the roof, so it should go without saying that the title track they just dropped as the album’s latest single has only served to ratchet up the excitement a notch or two.
As you can hear/see in the video posted below, this track has everything I think you’d want from a High On Fire track in 2024. Does it rock? Yes. Is it heavy as fuck? Double yes. Is Matt Pike shirtless in the video? Triple yes.
Bassist Jeff Matz said the initial inspiration from the track came about after stumbling on the riff while messing around on his bass during practice. That little bit of experimentation led to what we got today.
“‘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.
“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.”
As the band’s followup to their GRAMMY-winning 2018 album Electric Messiah, I’m sure there are some of you wondering if they’d be able to follow through with Cometh The Storm. If the rest of the damn thing is as good as this track is, then things are looking pretty damn good for the band as they celebrate their 25th anniversary year.
With just a few days to wait now, you can preorder Cometh The Storm if you’d like. Otherwise, you’ll just have get the album on April 19 wherever it is you get your music these days.
High on Fire ‘Cometh the Storm’ spring U.S. tour
(w/ Zeta, High Command)
May 4 Orlando, FL Conduit
May 5 Columbia, SC The Senate
May 7 Greensboro, NC Hanger 1819
May 8 Richmond, VA The Broadberry
May 10 Baltimore, MD Baltimore Soundstage
May 11 New Haven, CT Toad’s Place
May 12 Jersey City, NJ White Eagle Hall
May 13 Cambridge, MA The Middle East
May 15 Albany, NY Empire Live
May 16 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop
May 17 Detroit, MI The Magic Stick
May 18 Chicago, IL 3 Floyd’s Brewing (Dark Lord Day feat. High on Fire, Abbath, Fugitive, 1349, Spiritworld)
High on Fire EU and UK tour
Jun 04: CZ Brno Kabinet MUZ
Jun 10: DE Hamburg Bahnhof Pauli
Jun 11: DE Cologne Gebäude 9
Jun 12: NL Nijmegen Doornroosje
Jun 14: UK London Islington Assembly Hall
Jun 15: UK Manchester Rebellion
Jun 16: UK Glasgow Slay
Jun 17: UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Jun 18: UK Bristol Thekla
Jun 20: FR Wasquehal The Black Lab
Jun 25: FR Toulouse Le Metronum
Jun 26: ES Bilbao Kafe Antzokia
Jul 02: DE Aschaffenburg Colos Saal
Jul 03: CH Dudingen Bad Bonn
Jul 04: IT Torino Ziggy
Jul 06: AT Vienna Arena
