Electric Messiah / Digipak CD

Digipak CD

“I had a dream about Lemmy,” says Matt Pike, explaining the inspiration behind the
title of High on Fire’s triumphant eighth album Electric Messiah.
If there’s one aspect of High on Fire that warrants comparison to Lemmy’s mighty
Motörhead, it’s longevity. 2018 sees the band celebrating 20 years of the most thunderous
heavy metal, with brothers-in-arms Pike, bassist Jeff Matz, and drummer Des Kensel having
been firmly intact for the last dozen years. Along the way the band has forged a distinct
identity of towering riffs, a propulsive rhythm section, shredding solos, and lyrics of Hessian
poetry that has drawn accolades from not only the metal community (notably Decibel,
Revolver, Metal Hammer, Terrorizer, Kerrang! magazines) but from mainstream music
scribes as well. Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Village Voice are
among the dozens of publications outside the metal scene to extol the greatness of High on
Fire to curious readers.