High On Fire announce new album ‘Electric Messiah’
HIGH ON FIRE have announced a brand new album!
The upcoming album, titled Electric Messiah, follows 2015’s Luminiferous and is scheduled to be released in October this year.
Their new record was once again produced by Kurt Ballou (CONVERGE, TORCHE, KVELERTAK) and speaking about working with Ballou, guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike says, “Kurt just has a knack for us, man. We all work really well with him. Even if we have differences about how we want to record something, he works with us and understands what we do. We’ve been sticking with him because we haven’t made a bad record with him yet.”
Continuing to speak about the upcoming album, Matt Pike continues, “I had a dream about Lemmy. When Lemmy was still alive I always got compared to Lemmy so I had this dream where he got pissed at me. He gave me a bunch of shit, basically, and was hazing me. Not that he didn’t approve of me, but like I was being hazed. The song is me telling the world that I could never fill Lemmy’s shoes because Lemmy’s Lemmy. I wanted to pay homage to him in a great way. And it turned out to be such a good title that the guys said we should call the album Electric Messiah. This band keeps evolving. This is by far the best record I’ve ever made with the HIGH ON FIRE stamp. It just keeps getting better and better. We just try to outdo ourselves. I’m not saying the old work is progressively worse, it’s just that we get better every time instead of burning out, which is a common finality for a lot of bands. This album is fucking excellent, I just love everything on it, I’m not bummed about anything. It’s great when you think that about your record.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released the first single from Electric Messiah; the title-track.
Listen to Electric Messiah here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming record. Both of which are available to view below:
Track List:
1. Spewn from the Earth
2. Steps of the Ziggurat/House of Enlil
3. Electric Messiah
4. Sanctioned Annihilation
5. The Pallid Mask
6. God of the Godless
7. Freebooter
8. The Witch and the Christ
9. Drowning Dog
Electric Messiah is set for release on October 5th eOne Music.
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