High On Fire Premiere New Single & Music Video "Cometh The Storm"

The title track to High On Fire's highly anticipated ninth studio album, "Cometh The Storm" has just premiered online, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. The GRAMMY Award-winning band will then release the full album next Friday, April 19th. The accompanying video for this second track was directed by Phil Mucci, known for his work with Metallica and Disturbed.

Bassist Jeff Matz shared his thoughts:

“‘Cometh The Storm‘ was built from a riff I started playing on bass at practice. I was noodling around with this melancholic harmonic minor line, just hammering the notes with my left hand, when Matt yelled out ‘Are we recording this!?’ The chorus riff was something Coady and I came up with when we were jamming in LA.

Matt then came in and worked up some rough lyrics and came up with the vocal line. For the chorus, I used this fretless bass I’d acquired. The weight of the low frequencies this thing produced was insane—how it blended with the guitars and drums, it was like being hit with a sledgehammer. We knew right away that this was going to be an epically heavy track.”

Tells Mucci:

“This was the first time I got to work with the guys on set and we had a blast. High on Fire lyrics can always be interpreted in a number of ways, so I started by trying to define “The Storm”. A huge list of visual ideas got whittled down to the two essential characters at work, The Man and Gaia, representing duel ends of the spectrum — with a very destructive cross-over. I always try to keep things light and encourage everyone to come with ideas — like Coady’s burning cymbal idea! No better way to end your High on Fire shoot than with exploding cymbals!”

w/ Zeta and High Command:

05/04 Orlando, FL – Conduit
05/05 Columbia, SC – The Senate
05/07 Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
05/08 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry
05/10 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
05/11 New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
05/12 Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall
05/13 Cambridge, MA – The Middle East
05/15 Albany, NY – Empire Live
05/16 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
05/17 Detroit, MI – The Magic Stick
05/18 Chicago, IL – 3 Floyd’s Brewing (‘Dark Lord Day ‘) (no Zeta/High Command)