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  High on Fire Frontman Exits Rehab, Releases Wildly Psychedelic Clip

  August 17, 2012 – After missing this summer's Mayhem Fest due to a months-long stint in rehab for alcohol abuse, High on Fire frontman Matt Pike has returned to the stoner-metal band just in time for the unveiling of a trippy, weed-inspired video for the song "Fertile Green," off their latest, De Vermis Mysteriis. …
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• High on Fire, 'De Vermis Mysteriis' (E1)

  March 29, 2012 – Stoner-metal gods High on Fire's sixth album, De Vermis Mysteriis, is rife with red flags. It was hastily assembled, it’s got a lofty biblical-time-travel concept, it's the 46,542nd metal album featuring themes inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, the title is Latin, and so on. But between vocalist-guitarist Matt Pike's burly, overdriven riffs and his bandmates' raucous cacophony, these blemishes are smoothed over pretty quickly. …
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  Listen to High on Fire's Savage 'Bloody Knuckles'

  March 21, 2012 – Bludgeoning Bay Area trio High on Fire have seemingly entered a permanent state of metal flow. Fourteen years into its career, the band has mastered its woozy, pummeling music. Growler-guitarist Matt Pike yowls about violence and esoterica and riffs like he's engulfed in flames while the rhythm section of bassist Jeff Matz and drummer Des Kensel pitch and yaw as if playing aboard a Viking longship. It's perfect. …
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  Best of SXSW 2012, Wednesday: Fiona Apple, Zola Jesus, High on Fire

  March 15, 2012 – Fiona Apple: There's always talk of how much Lady Gaga borrows from Madonna, but her secret soul sister has always been fellow piano pounder Fiona Apple. Returning after a lengthy break following 2005's Extraordinary Machine, the now-34-year-old Apple looks and sounds ready to be the Queen of Pain again. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: New Song from High On Fire

  February 8, 2010 – High On Fire guitarist Matt Pike slings one of the heaviest axes in metal, and shreds faster than ever on his band's fifth studio album, Snakes for the Divine, out February 23. Hear an exclusive stream of the title track below! The famed stoner-metal hero is also as angry and far out as he ever was. …
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  Mastodon, Dethklok Team Up for Tour

  August 4, 2009 – Heavy metal icons Mastodon will hit the road with Dethklok, the real-life version of the animated band from the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse, for a co-headlining tour this October and November. The 34-city jaunt will kick off October 2 in Portland, OR, and take the bands across the U.S. …
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