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Just weeks after living through a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in New Zealand, High On Fire have survived yet another, more powerful earthquake, that struck Japan Friday, resulting in thousands of deaths and millions in property damage.

 

The band was supposed to perform in Tokyo on March 11, the same day the quake hit. High on Fire was unharmed, but shaken after surviving its second natural disaster in sixteen days.

 

“Our thoughts go out to all the people of the world who have already been through such agony during these tragedies and are now going through much worse,” said the band in a statement. “To all those who have lost loved ones in particular, you have our deepest sympathies.”

It’s almost like these dudes are just always in the wrong place at the wrong time recently. Maybe you dudes should come home already and forget about touring for a while.

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Legendary stoner rock band Sleep has just announced a string of summer North American tour dates. On the heels of its sold out US tour run last September, the California trio will return to the stage this summer by popular demand. Live dates in NYC (June 22) and Los Angeles (June 26) will bookend an appearance at the Sled Island Music and Arts Festival in Calgary, AB on June 24, where the group will share the stage with The Dandy Warhols, Blonde Redhead, The Buzzcocks and more.

 

Sleep tour dates:

06/22 New York, NY Terminal 5

06/24 Calgary, AB Sled Island Festival

06/26 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern

 

Samo po Americi, nah.

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Oakland, California hard rock band HIGH ON FIRE will release its new studio album, "De Vermis Mysteriis", on April 3 via eOne Music. 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 "Snakes For The Divine".

 

"De Vermis Mysteriis" (or "Mysteries Of The Worm") takes its title from a fictional grimoire created by "Psycho" author Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the "Cthulhu Mythos" (Lovecraft mentioned "De Vermis Mysteriis" as 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, a serum called liao that is made out of a black lotus and "a Jesus twin who can see the past through his ancestors' eyes." And that's just scratching the surface!

 

Musically, "De Vermis Mysteriis" is 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. HIGH ON FIRE construct tough, burly stoner metal that is at once devastatingly epic and mercilessly metallic as superstar guitarist Matt Pike's sizzling ax and avenging-angel riffs fuse with Des Kensel's double-kick-drum onslaught and Jeff Matz's concrete crushing, Burton-esque bass guitar. Over the course of forty-five minutes, HIGH ON FIRE have 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. HIGH ON FIRE is a savage bull in the china shop of modern metal.

 

When asked for comment on "De Vermis Mysteriis", Pike somewhat cryptically replied, "Prepare for your dark journey."

 

"De Vermis Mysteriis" track listing:

 

01. Serums Of Liao

02. Bloody Knuckles

03. Fertile Green

04. Madness Of An Architect

05. Interlude

06. Spiritual Rites

07. King Of Days

08. De Vermis Mysteriis

09. Romulus And Remus

10. Warhorn

 

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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13243-fertile-green/

 

nova stvar

 

Kurt Ballou radio produkciju

 

It's also a concept album that, according to Pike, is framed by a couple questions: "I got this idea about Jesus Christ and the Immaculate Conception: What if Jesus had a twin who died at birth to give Jesus his life? And then what if the twin became a time traveler right then?"

 

 

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