California heavy rockers HIGH ON FIRE will enter Salem, Massachusetts' GodCity Studios with producer Kurt Ballou at the end of January to record their as-yet-untitled new album for a mid-2015 release via eOne Music. Earlier in the year, the trio guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike, drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz convened for strategic writing sessions in both New Orleans, Lousiana and Oakland, California, with early reports indicating the band's new material to be both "epic" and "sonically huge." "Everyone is asking what the new HIGH ON FIRE music sounds like," said Kensel. "Chew on some mescaline and listen to side B of SABBATH's 'Master Of Reality' backwards at 78 RPM and it might give you an idea." HIGH ON FIRE will kick off a short run of U.S. dates on January 6 in Birmingham, Alabama. The trek will continue with stops in Richmond, Virginia (Jan. 8); Brooklyn, New York (Jan. 9); and more, wrapping up on January 14 in Providence, Rhode Island. HIGH ON FIRE released the first official live recordings of its career with the two-volume set "Spitting Fire Live", which has been hailed as "high-volume intensity" by the Austin Chronicle, "hot as the infernos" by Pitchfork and a "documentation of the band's undiminished ferocity onstage" by the SF Weekly. Recorded over a two-evening New York City headlining stint at both Bowery Ballroom and Brooklyn's Music Hall Of Williamsburg, "Spitting Fire Live" showcases HIGH ON FIRE at its incendiary best, containing songs from each of the band's critically acclaimed studio albums including 2012's "De Vermis Mysteriis". Photo credit: Travis Shinn
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