Identified for his or her devastating mix of thrash and sludge steel, High on Fire is firing on all cylinders on their just-released album Cometh The Storm. The band, that includes founding guitarist and vocalist Matt Pike, bassist Jeff Matz, and new drummer Coady Willis (of Melvins, Huge Enterprise fame) sounds tighter than ever, with producer Kurt Ballou capturing their uncooked vitality completely.
In a current interview with New Noise Magazine, each Matz and Willis mentioned the album, with Matz highlighting the title monitor, “Cometh The Storm” as a standout. He praises the music’s heaviness and notably Matt Pike‘s vocal efficiency, calling the distinction between the atmospheric verses and the crushing refrain “a sledgehammer to the chest.”
“The title monitor for me is a fairly particular one. I believe it is actually heavy. I believe that is in all probability my favourite of Matt‘s vocal performances on the album. I actually just like the vocal melody. I actually just like the distinction between the atmospheric toned-down verse half and when the refrain is available in, it is like a sledgehammer to the chest. I actually just like the album as a complete, I believe there are some nice songs on it, however that is in all probability my favourite out of the batch. At the moment, at the least,” Matz defined.
New drummer Coady Willis echoed Matz‘s sentiment, emphasizing the music’s dynamic vary and the large bass sound that “wipes you out utterly.”
“I agree with Jeff; in listening to the music post-mastering and listening within the automotive and totally different environments, I believe that music works rather well dynamically. When the refrain drops it is simply impressively large, the bass sound particularly simply actually wipes you out utterly. There’s a whole lot of great things.”
Willis additionally opened up a few private wrestle through the recording of “The Beating” and “Powerful Man,” a two-part music on the album. Whereas initially pissed off together with his efficiency on “Powerful Man,” Willis revealed how the band reworked the music, leading to a remaining product that “got here out nice” and is “actually enjoyable.”
“The music that I am happiest with the way it turned out versus how I used to be feeling about it within the studio was the 2 songs put collectively, ‘The Beating’ and ‘Powerful Man’. It was a kind of songs the place I felt like we had it dialed in earlier than we went after which after we received into the studio, after I was monitoring the drums for ‘Powerful Man,’ which is the second half of it, I used to be drained and feeling pissed off and was simply attempting to do my greatest,” Willis defined.
“We discovered that the way in which we have been enjoying the music simply wasn’t working proper. The drum half that I had wasn’t actually hitting with the riff the way in which it was speculated to and I used to be upset about it. We ended the day on that word like, “We’ll come again and get it tomorrow” and I used to be feeling pissed off and bummed out.”
“I believe we had a break in between; we form of did the recording in two legs the place we stopped after a few weeks and flew again to Portland to play a present after which got here again to complete it. I believe we got here again from that and took one other swing at that one and it felt means higher, It simply form of locked in. Then after we put the 2 songs collectively, I felt prefer it got here out nice. At first look it is like a rocker, blasting A-B music, however I actually like the way it got here out. The vitality is actually good, and it is actually enjoyable. I am simply glad that it got here out the way in which it did versus how I used to be feeling about it within the studio. It got here throughout within the remaining product.”
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