High on Fire

"I actually don't even really smoke weed, and I haven't for quite a while. As much as people would hate to hear it, we're not really stoners. We're more drinkers," High on Fire drummer Des Kensel admitted to Noisecreep. "But I'm sure getting stoned…

Like Trouble, the Sword, Mastodon and their current tourmates High on Fire, Montreal-based quartet Priestess create dense, chugging music tinted with bluesy psychedelia and powerful enough to knock out a few teeth. The band's latest single, ...

High on Fire aren't new to the music business. Five albums in, 'Snakes for the Divine' is taking off and shooting the California metal band to new heights. So while positive reviews in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune are nice, the band members don't care much...

Metallica really do have good taste when it comes to metal, having invited Machine Head, Lamb of God, Mastodon and now High on Fire to tour with them. The dirty-metal power trio High on Fire have been hand-selected by, and will join, Metallica on the band's European trek this May...

The guys in High on Fire are featured on the April cover of Decibel magazine. While being on the cover of any magazine is a major honor, the band members were admittedly freaked at the concept of having a live snake draped around their bodies...

Touring is expensive. Traveling cross country in a bus can cost a band upwards of $30,000 per month. That's astronomical for up-and-coming bands -- and even for some mid-level, growing and established acts. Touring in a van also has its cost inefficiencies; hotel rooms are often a necessity, and tha…

Releasing an EP on its own is an ambitious undertaking for a new band, but Florida's Shroud Eater saw the experience as pleasurable, since they were incredibly resourceful, taking the term DIY seriously and to heart. "Releasing the EP was definitely a fun process," vocalist/gu…

This year will mark Hatebreed's first appearance on the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, so batten down the hatches and get ready to mosh till your brain falls out of your head. The band has done every major metal festival at some point in its career -- four Ozzfests, several Warped Tours, eve…

On the first night of Austin's annual SXSW, March 17, metal reigned supreme, with Dillinger Escape Plan slaughtering a crowd at Emo's, while Prosthetic Records held court downstairs at the Mohawk, as Action! PR occupied the outside upper deck...

Ex-members of Scar Culture -- remember them, as they were briefly signed to Century Media in the early '00s? -- and Dirty Rig have formed Moth Eater, a New York-based, sludge-caked doom band. "We think our music is like Motörhead driving to a Black Sabbath concert with Scissorfight sitting in t…