HIGH ON FIRE: New Video Interview With MATT PIKE Posted Online

December 4, 2009

Full Metal Jackie of Rock On Altitude recently conducted an interview with frontman Matt Pike of the Oakland, California sludge metal trio HIGH ON FIRE on November 20, 2009 at the Palladium in Hollywood, California. Watch the chat below.

HIGH ON FIRE has set "Snakes For The Divine" as the tentative title of its fifth studio album and follow-up to 2007's "Death Is This Communion". The CD was recorded with producer Greg Fidelman (METALLICA, SLAYER, JOHNNY CASH) at The Pass Studios in Los Angeles and is slated for a February 2010 release via E1 Music (formerly KOCH Records). The artwork is once again being created by Arik Roper.

"We went a little over-aggressive with the drumming, and me and [bassist] Jeff [Matz] collaborated a lot more throughout the songwriting process," HIGH ON FIRE frontman Matt Pike tells AOL's Noisecreep. "We went for a more aggressive approach. It's what we do well. We went for a heavier, ballsier, faster-paced sound that still has a lot of cleverness to it ... there are lots of stops and stalls, crazy licks. It's really heavy, a little more aggressive than our last album, a little less psychedelic. For the most part, the songs are amazing."

Working with Fidelman was a pleasure, says Pike. "He's a genius," the singer says. "He knows what he's doing. We thought we'd butt heads but we ended up seeing eye-to-eye on a lot of things."

HIGH ON FIRE will embark on a tour of Australia later this month with LAMB OF GOD, DEVILDRIVER and SHADOWS FALL.

HIGH ON FIRE recently completed a North American tour with Atlanta's MASTODON and DETHKLOK — the animated death metal band from Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse".

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