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World renowned hard rock band\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE<\/strong>\u00a0will release its new studio album\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0April 3<\/strong>\u00a0via eOne Music.<\/p>\n Recorded in Salem, Massachusetts’ GodCity Studios with producer and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, the 10 song effort — touted as “direct, eye-opening and powerfully supernatural” — is the band’s sixth studio recording and the follow up to 2010’s\u00a0Snakes for the Divine<\/em>\u00a0which debuted at #62 on the Billboard Top 200 and has been called “wonderful” by\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and “an exhilarating rush” by\u00a0The Chicago Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n De Vermis Mysteriis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(or “Mysteries of the Worm”) takes its title from\u00a0a fictional grimoire created by\u00a0Psycho<\/em>\u00a0author Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft mentioned\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis<\/em>\u00a0as one of the books that “repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by early man”). The album carries a deeply mystical undercurrent, incorporating fantastical themes and lyrics detailing, among other things, time travel,\u00a0a serum called liao that is made out of a black lotus and “a Jesus twin who can see the past through his ancestors’ eyes.” \u00a0And that’s just scratching the surface!<\/p>\n Musically,\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is absolutely explosive, showcasing the California power trio’s thundering roar and expanded harmonic and rhythmic palettes while the songs move confidently through multiple riffs and movements.\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE<\/strong>\u00a0construct tough, burly stoner metal that is at once devastatingly epic and mercilessly metallic as superstar guitaristMatt Pike<\/strong>‘s sizzling ax and avenging-angel riffs fuse with\u00a0Des Kensel<\/strong>‘s double-kick-drum onslaught and\u00a0Jeff Matz<\/strong>‘s concrete crushing, Burton-esque bass guitar. Over the course of forty-five minutes,\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE<\/strong>\u00a0have created an amalgamation of fantastical lyrical ideas and brute force musicianship anchored in an endlessly captivating, punkishly frantic sound. Simply put, the band generates awesome on demand and has a virtual chokehold on monolithic-sounding, masterfully crafted epic music.\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE<\/strong>\u00a0is a savage bull in the china shop of modern metal.<\/p>\n When asked for comment on\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0Pike<\/strong>\u00a0somewhat cryptically replied, “Prepare for your dark journey.”<\/p>\n The track listing for\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE<\/strong>‘s\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is as follows:<\/p>\n 1.)\u00a0Serums of Liao<\/strong> In advance of the new album’s release,\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE<\/strong>\u00a0will perform a number of live dates as part of the 2012\u00a0SXSW<\/strong>\u00a0Music and Media Festival in Austin, TX. The band is expected to preview new material at the\u00a0SX<\/strong>\u00a0shows. The just-announced dates are as follows:<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 13 \u00a0 \u00a0Austin, TX \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Emo’s East (Non-SXSW headline show)<\/strong> Finally, on June 30,\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>will join Slayer, Slipknot, Anthrax and more as part of the 2012 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour.\u00a0 The 26 city jaunt will kick off in San Bernardino, CA and run through August 5 in Hartford, CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World renowned hard rock band\u00a0HIGH ON FIRE\u00a0will release its new studio album\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis\u00a0on\u00a0April 3\u00a0via eOne Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ih.constantcontact.com\/fs051\/1103782231743\/img\/173.jpg\" "\\"hof2\\"")
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\n2.)\u00a0Bloody Knuckles<\/strong>
\n3.)\u00a0Fertile Green<\/strong>
\n4.)\u00a0Madness of an Architect<\/strong>
\n5.)\u00a0Interlude<\/strong>
\n6.)\u00a0Spiritual Rites<\/strong>
\n7.)\u00a0King of Days<\/strong>
\n8.)\u00a0De Vermis Mysteriis<\/strong>
\n9.)\u00a0Romulus and Remus<\/strong>
\n10.)\u00a0Warhorn<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 14 \u00a0 \u00a0Austin, TX \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SXSW (MetalSucks day party)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 15 \u00a0 \u00a0Houston, TX \u00a0 Fitzgerald’s<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 16 \u00a0 \u00a0Austin, TX \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SXSW (Brooklyn Vegan day party)<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 17 \u00a0 \u00a0Austin, TX \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SXSW TBA<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0March 18 \u00a0 \u00a0Austin, TX \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0SXSW (High Times day party)<\/strong><\/p>\n