High on Fire is a metal band originally formed from the remnants of the leg… Read Full Bio ↴High on Fire is a metal band originally formed from the remnants of the legendary stoner band Sleep. Matt Pike, from Sleep, sings and plays guitar in High on Fire and founded the band with George Rice (bass) and Des Kensel (drums), formerly of Connecticut hardcore band Mindwar. High on Fire's sound is extremely heavy, drawing influences from the aforementioned Sleep, Motörhead, Black Sabbath, & Celtic Frost.

The Oakland, California band formed in 1998 and released 'The Art of Self Defense' on Man's Ruin Records, in March 2000. After Man's Ruin Records folded, the album was re-released via Tee-Pee Records on CD and vinyl with new artwork and two bonus tracks: Steel Shoe (an original) and The Ursurper (Celtic Frost).

Following, the band signed with Relapse Records and released 'Surrounded by Thieves' in 2002, with production help from Billy Anderson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Anderson_%28music%29). Founding member and bass player George Rice, would leave the band shortly before recording the next album.

In 2004, Relapse and Throne Records released the 'Live from the Contamination Festival' CD and LP (respectively) which was recorded in Philadelphia, PA. The CD is limited to 2000 copies and the LP only 1000.

'Blessed Black Wings', produced by Steve Albini, was released in early 2005, and was their first and only to feature Joe Preston (Earth, Melvins, Thrones) on bass. The vinyl version as well as the Japanese CD version of this album had the Judas Priest song Rapid Fire as a bonus track.

In early 2006, Joe Preston left the band and was replaced by Jeff Matz of Zeke. High On Fire then went on to release the Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden) produced and recorded album, 'Death is This Communion,' in September 2007. To celebrate this release, and the start of their tour for the album, the band played a free show at San Francsico's Amoeba records.

The band released their fifth full-length album Snakes For The Divine in February 2010 through E1 music. The album was produced by Greg Fidelman and stripped away much of the acoustic textures and layering of the previous album, leaving a monolithic heavy sound to the record.

On April 3rd, 2012, High on Fire released their sixth studio album, De Vermis Mysteriis.

Luminiferous
High on Fire Lyrics

The paradigm of his last known crime
All the fingers point at you
Salutations fly from the dogmic eyes
As your judgment comes to view
Witness lies as you're charged with life
Sentenced death, so cold so true
No choice you had, on this earth so sad
Find the strength to pull us through...
Take the fall for a fate so tall
Retribution paid in full

Gavel strike, as the jury sighs
Unanimous and crude
Barrister with the white wig of fear
Unparoled time served accrued
666 and they got their list
And in time you'll see it's true
You know we never meant this
Serving luminiferous
Die to live amongst us
Serving luminiferous
Black the pranas breathless
Serving luminiferous
Block the pineal essence
Seeing luminiferous
Hammer, anvil, judge of torment
Six billion humans doomed
Luminiferous, souls of stardust
Reverence four hundred and thirty two
Evolution virus, once inside us
Injection chip so new
If we relied on reptoid kindness
I think we're all just screwed

Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing

Written by: DESMOND WAYNE KENSEL, JEFF PAUL MATZ, MATTHEW LANCE PIKE

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