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Press Release
February 23, 2012
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For Immediate Release
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HIGH ON FIRE To Release New Album "De Vermis Mysteriis" on April 3, 2012
Award-Winning Oakland Trio Announces Multiple Appearances at 2012 SXSW Festival
HIGH ON FIRE De Vermis Mysteriis
World renowned hard rock band HIGH ON FIRE will release its new studio album De Vermis Mysteriis on April 3
via eOne Music. Recorded in Salem, Massachusetts' GodCity Studios with
producer and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, the 10 song effort --
touted as "direct, eye-opening and powerfully supernatural" -- is the
band's sixth studio recording and the follow up to 2010's Snakes for the Divine which debuted at #62 on the Billboard Top 200 and has been called "wonderful" by The New York Times and "an exhilarating rush" by The Chicago Tribune.
De Vermis Mysteriis (or "Mysteries of the Worm") takes its title from a fictional grimoire created by Psycho author Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis
as one of the books that "repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by
early man"). The album carries a deeply mystical undercurrent,
incorporating fantastical themes and lyrics detailing, among other
things, time travel, a serum called liao that is made out of a black
lotus and "a Jesus twin who can see the past through his ancestors'
eyes." And that's just scratching the surface!
Musically, De Vermis Mysteriis
is absolutely explosive, showcasing the California power trio's
thundering roar and expanded harmonic and rhythmic palettes while the
songs move confidently through multiple riffs and movements. HIGH ON FIRE construct tough, burly stoner metal that is at once devastatingly epic and mercilessly metallic as superstar guitarist Matt Pike's sizzling ax and avenging-angel riffs fuse with Des Kensel's double-kick-drum onslaught and Jeff Matz's concrete crushing, Burton-esque bass guitar. Over the course of forty-five minutes, HIGH ON FIRE
have created an amalgamation of fantastical lyrical ideas and brute
force musicianship anchored in an endlessly captivating, punkishly
frantic sound. Simply put, the band generates awesome on demand and has a
virtual chokehold on monolithic-sounding, masterfully crafted epic
music. HIGH ON FIRE is a savage bull in the china shop of modern metal.
When asked for comment on De Vermis Mysteriis, Pike somewhat cryptically replied, "Prepare for your dark journey."
HIGH ON FIRE (photo: Tom Couture)
The track listing for HIGH ON FIRE's De Vermis Mysteriis is as follows:
1.) Serums of Liao
2.) Bloody Knuckles
3.) Fertile Green
4.) Madness of an Architect
5.) Interlude
6.) Spiritual Rites
7.) King of Days
8.) De Vermis Mysteriis
9.) Romulus and Remus
10.) Warhorn
In advance of the new album's release, HIGH ON FIRE will perform a number of live dates as part of the 2012 SXSW Music and Media Festival in Austin, TX. The band is expected to preview new material at the SX shows. The just-announced dates are as follows:
March 13 Austin, TX Emo's East (Non-SXSW headline show)
March 14 Austin, TX SXSW (MetalSucks day party)
March 15 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's
March 16 Austin, TX SXSW (Brooklyn Vegan day party)
March 17 Austin, TX SXSW TBA
March 18 Austin, TX SXSW (High Times day party)
Finally, on June 30, HIGH ON FIRE will
join Slayer, Slipknot, Anthrax and more as part of the 2012 Rockstar
Energy Mayhem Tour. The 26 city jaunt will kick off in San Bernardino,
CA and run through August 5 in Hartford, CT. The itinerary for the
monster trek is as follows:
June 30 San Bernardino, CA San Manuel Amphitheater
July 1 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
July 3 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
July 4 Nampa, ID Idaho Center Amphitheatre
July 6 Phoenix, AZ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion
July 7 Albuquerque, NM Hard Rock Casino
July 8 Greenwood Village, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
July 10 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion
July 11 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 13 Tampa, FL 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre
July 14 Atlanta, GA Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
July 15 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
July 18 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre
July 20 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 21 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
July 22 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 24 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
July 25 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
July 27 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
July 28 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
July 29 Bristow, Virginia Jiffy Lube Live
July 31 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
August 1 Corfu, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
August 3 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center
August 4 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
August 5 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre HIGH ON FIRE's work on De Vermis Mysteriis follows more than a year and a half of world touring in support of Snakes for the Divine
which included multiple North American headlining jaunts and
international festival appearances as well as tours alongside friends
and peers in Metallica, Slayer, Mastodon and The Melvins, the latter of
which saw the trio caught in both the February 22, 2011 6.3 magnitude
earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand and the powerful earthquake and
resulting tsunami in Tokyo, Japan on March 11, 2011. The
popular U.S. group was unharmed, but shaken after surviving its second
natural disaster in sixteen days and was able to return to its native
Oakland a few days later. NBC Bay Area spoke with Matt Pike following the Christchurch earthquake; that interview can be seen at this location.
About HIGH ON FIRE:
Universally recognized as one of the most potent acts in music today, HIGH ON FIRE
creates modern heavy metal that merges primal fury and aggression,
hesher bombast and hall of fame heaviness. Described as "a supersonic
exercise in conquest by volume," HIGH ON FIRE has rewritten the
hard rock rulebook since its formation in 1998, forging a style and
sound that is both critically celebrated and absolutely unique. The
group features vocalist and cult guitar hero Matt Pike, a founding member of the famed underground band SLEEP. Pike was named as one of Rolling Stone magazine's "New Guitar Gods" and is one of rock's most charismatic figures. HIGH ON FIRE will release its new album De Vermis Mysteriis this April.
HIGH ON FIRE is available to speak with interested media now. To chat with the band, simply contact Carl Schultz @ ACTION! PR via any of the means listed below. Updated news and tour information will be made available via HIGH ON FIRE online (website / facebook / twitter) and ACTION! PR online (website / facebook / twitter).
"a beautiful, untamable kind of band" - THE NEW YORK TIMES
"These Bay Area lifers have so fully internalized metal's sweep
that the genre's catalog could go up in flames, and as long as the
transcendentally intense "Snakes" survived, we'd be able to
reverse-engineer the music's history." - SPIN
"music heavy enough to unbalance the Earth's rotation...Pike is one
of the best guitarists you will ever hear...one the best live bands you
will ever see." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"High on Fire are the sort of band who put devils or skulls or
snake-demon ladies on their album covers just because those things are
awesome, not because they illustrate any larger cultural point. And
five albums in, they're very, very good at generating awesome on
demand...High on Fire do it right." - PITCHFORK
"it's not often something rocks this hard...stadium-sized" - STEREOGUM
"magnificent...one of the best bands in the business." - THE ONION
"a band that eats Motorhead, drinks Sabbath, and bleeds Slayer...at the absolute pinnacle of their game" - SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN
"High on Fire are the new Mötörhead. The trio never falter" - ALTERNATIVE PRESS
"majestic...monolithic-sounding...on the cusp of attracting a much larger audience than ever before." - POPMATTERS
"Oakland's (and possibly Earth's) heaviest band, High on Fire, is ready for its close-up." - SF WEEKLY
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Carl Schultz
ACTION! Public Relations / Media & Marketing
P.O. Box 302709
Austin, TX 78703
(512) 926-4511
carl@action-pr.com
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