High on Fire

The lineup for Danish music festival Roskilde Festival has been released, and features a lot of the big names to be seen at other festivals this summer. The main headliners are Foo Fighters, A Tribe Called Quest, Arcade Fire, Justice, Moderat/Modeselektor, Solange, Trentemoller, The Weeknd, and The XX. The festival will also have performances by Anthrax, […]

This double bill, with no openers, was a smartly conceived showcase of two of my favorite flavors in heavy metal’s complicated cornucopia of styles…

Friday at Psycho Las Vegas was a parade of great bands on the main stage, and that continued on Saturday. I kicked things off with SubRosa, the Salt Lake City doom band who just released their fantastic new album…

The stacked festival has Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, Truth & Janey, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Pentagram, Candlemass, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Boris, Baroness, Drive Like Jehu, Converge, and much more.

Polyrhythmic metal maniacs Meshuggah and sludge greats High on Fire are teaming up for a tour this fall. It’s in support of Meshuggah’s upcoming 25th anniversary box set…

The Decibel Mag tour with former Immortal frontman Abbath‘s new eponymous band, High on Fire, Skeletonwitch (with new singer Adam Clemans of Wolvhammer), and Tribulation hit NYC on Tuesday (4/12) at Webster Hall. We already posted a lengthy review of the San Francisco show…

Originally High on Fire was slotted to headline the tour, which would have been a bit of a coup for the trio: Decibel Tour openers are usually storied (and European) groups that achieved notoriety through word of mouth and rarely play the United States. In this sense Pike’s more other band Sleep would have been the more obvious choice, he’s been burning up asphalt as part of High on Fire long enough to inspire bands like Mastodon, and watch them eclipse his own stature. But seeing the band live, functioning as a flawless tripartite unit, especially when ripping into closer “Snakes for the Divine,” convinced me that this is Pike’s time…

Also: Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Baroness, Pentagram, Converge, Death, High On Fire, Fu Manchu, Boris, Down, Yob, and still many more.

Year-end list season began earlier this week, and now metal mag Decibel has published their Top 40 Albums of 2015. You can check out artwork and commentary if you pick up the issue, and browse the full list be…