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Tuesday, September 25th 2007
High On Fire: New Album In-stores Now; Kick Off North American Tour
HIGH ON FIRE saw the release of their long-awaited full-length Death Is This Communion last Tuesday, September 18. To commemorate its release, HIGH ON FIRE played a free in-store at Amoeba Records in San Francisco , kicking off their North American Tour. HIGH ON FIRE are joined by MONO, PANTHERS, and label-mates COLISEUM for this five week tour that began on September 20 in San Diego , CA . A complete listing of tour dates and cities can be found below.
HIGH ON FIRE recently lensed a video for Death Is This Communion track “Rumors of War” in Los Angeles, CA with director / producer Soren (UNEARTH, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, GREELEY ESTATES). The video is expected to make its world premier imminently. “Rumors of War” can be heard now via the band’s MySpace: www.MySpace.com/HighOnFireSlays and is also the first digital single from Death Is This Communion, available via I-Tunes at this location. HIGH ON FIRE tour dates:September 18 San Francisco , CA Amoeba Records (FREE In-Store)
All Dates From September 20 thru October 29 w/ MONO, PANTHERS, COLISEUM
September 20 San Diego , CA Casbah
Se p tember 21 Los Angeles , CA El Ray
Se p tember 22 Phoenix , AZ The Old Brickhouse
September 23 Albuquerque , NM Launch Pad
September 25 San Antonio , TX White Rabbit
September 26 Dallas , TX Granada Theater
September 27 Austin , TX Emo’s
September 28 Houston , TX Meridian Red Room
September 29 New Orleans , LA One Eyed Jacks
October 1 Knoxville , TN Blue Cats
October 2 Athens , GA 40 Watt Club
October 3 Asheville , NC Orange Peel
October 4 Wilmington , NC Soa p box
October 5 Richmond , VA Toad’s Place
October 6 Baltimore , MD Rams Head Live
October 7 Philadel p hia , PA Theater of Living Arts
October 8 New York , NY Webster Hall
October 9 Brooklyn , NY Williamsburg Music Hall
October 11 Cambridge , MA Middle East
October 12 Providence , RI Living Room
October 13 Montreal , QC Les Saints
October 14 Toronto , ON O p era House
October 16 Buffalo , NY Show p lace Theater
October 17 Cleveland , OH Grog Sho p
October 18 Detroit , MI Magic Stick
October 19 Chicago , IL Double Door
October 20 Madison , WI High Noon Saloon
October 21 Minnea p olis , MN First Avenue
October 24 Vancouver , BC Richards on Richards
October 25 Seattle , WA Crocodile Café
October 26 Portland , OR Dante’s
October 28 San Francisco , CA Inde p endent
October 29 San Francisco , CA Inde p endent
“If you play this record backwards, you’ll still hear voices telling you to break shit, get arrested, and drink Jägermeister. They just might suggest you read a history book, too.” – VILLAGE VOICE “the deeper you go into the record, the more reassured you become that these musicians know what they’re great at.” – NEW YORK TIMES “if there were a list of heavy metal commandments, number 666 would read: “Thou shalt devote thyself to the worship of High On Fire”. Every rifff Matt Pike unleashes is beyond colossal…Pay your respects.” – KERRANG! “Already regarded as one of modern metal’s most face-meltingly fantastic bands, High on Fire further solidifies its reputation with Death is This Communion, the Oakland trio’s fourth, most commanding album.” – SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY “No longer the best stoner-metal band in the land, High on Fire is now clearly, sim p ly one of the country’s best metal bands, p eriod.” – DALLAS OBSERVER “shirtless metal somewhere between Motorhead’s biker thunder and Slayer’s muscular riffology. Still far and away one of the best metal acts going.” – AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN “the trio will steamroll your senses — a year of nonstop touring behind 2005’s Blessed Black Wings has made the already tight HoF an unstoppable metal monster” – NEW TIMES “the a p ocaly p se’s doomy, am p -destroying fifth horseman… gallo p ing mammoth metal” – SPIN “unbelievably heavy…massive crunching riffs and drums that slam like vault doors” – REVOLVER “HIGH ON FIRE build a temple to The Riff and preach its word as loudly as humanly possible” – AUSTIN CHRONICLE “For a band getting as much crossover attention as they do, locals High on Fire have remained staunchly, una p ologetically metal over the years. Celtic Frost-meets-the Melvins riffage, to p p ed off with vocals so hoarse they make Lemmy sound like a choirboy.” – SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN “the sound of the p lanet getting broadsided by a shower of asteroids, and the crushing terror of 20-story stone beasts methodically obliterating everything in their p ath with each malevolent stom p . And you won’t want it to end.” – PHOENIX NEW TIMES