The watch for High On Fire‘s first new album since Electrical Messiah in 2018 is nearly over! The band has reposted a photograph of bassist Jeff Matz holding check presses of the brand new report, which suggests we’re simply so rattling near all these smoky stoner riffs destroying our ears.
“I simply listened to the vinyl check press of the brand new High On Fire album, it sounds unbelievable and I can’t watch for you all to listen to it,” mentioned Matz. “Kurt Ballou and Alan Douches actually helped make this a sonically putting piece of labor.”
The brand new report will probably be High On Fire‘s first to function drummer Coady Willis (Big Business, and so forth.), who changed longtime drummer Des Kensel after his departure in 2019. As for the way the brand new report will sound, frontman Matt Pike and Matz revealed in a 2023 interview with Loudwire that it will be sure you please old-school followers… and followers of Turkish music!
“Properly, it is undoubtedly noticeable that Jeff‘s been taking part in loads of Turkish music, which I used to be type of enthralled with, however I by no means took up a examine of it like Jeff has,” mentioned Pike. “However I can play alongside to it ‘trigger I perceive it to a level. And so that there is loads of that thrown in there, which ends up in, like I used to be saying, just a few various kinds of drumming kinds, which Coady‘s like a grasp at being inventive.
“It has been actual good simply, type of determining that and having that transfer us alongside and nonetheless retaining among the identical Black Sabbath mid-tempo blues riffs alongside of that I feel praise one another nicely.
Matz added: “Yeah, I feel the way in which that the brand new materials got here collectively, as Matt talked about, I have been learning Turkish people music fairly intensely for the previous few years and that is undoubtedly form of contributed to the stuff that I’ve dropped at the desk for the brand new album.
“However there’s undoubtedly loads of basic High On Fire sort materials in there. You understand, some stuff hearkening again to the primary album as nicely, getting again to the gradual heavy type of bluesy roots which is tremendous cool. You understand, because the final couple albums have been slightly bit on the sooner aspect general. So yeah, I feel followers of the older materials will will get pleasure from this new album.”
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