HIGH ON FIRE announce UK headline tour
3rd February 2020HIGH ON FIRE have announced a UK headline run as part of their festival tour this summer; the band’s first UK dates since winning the Best Metal Performance Grammy in 2019.
Touring in support of their Electric Messiah album, check out the single ‘Spewn From The Earth’
Dates:
19/06 – Dessel, BE – Graspop Metal Meeting
20/06 – Clisson, FR – Clisson – Hellfest
22/06 – Brighton, UK – Chalk Venue Brighton
23/06 – Bristol, UK – The Fleece Bristol
24/06 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
25/06 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
26/06 – London, UK – The Garage
28/06 – Helsinki, FL – Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
30/06 – Stockholm, SE – Nalen
01/07 – Oslo, NO – Parkteatret
02/07 – Roskilde, DK – Roskilde Festival
04/07 – Dokkum, NL – Dokk’em Open Air
05/07 – Essen, DE – Turock
06/07 – Hamburg, DE – Bahnhof Pauli
08/07 – Wiesbaden, DE – Kesselhaus
09/07 – Munich, DE – Backstage Club München
10/07 – Erfurt, DE – Stoned from the Underground – Festival
11/07 – Vizovice, CZ – Masters of Rock
HIGH ON FIRE released Electric Messiah last year to some serious critical acclaim. The A.V. Club stated that “The bar for metal album of the year has been raised” and they couldn’t be more correct. Electric Messiah has landed on a myriad of 2018 year-end lists including Metal Hammer, Kerrang!, A.V. Club, Revolver, Loudwire and Consequence of Sound.
Consequence of sound said the new LP “successfully construct Sabbath-ian, earth-moving riffs as their blueprint.” Pitchfork said boldly, “When High On Fire rip, it’s like they’re tearing through the whole universe.”
“I had a dream about Lemmy,” says Pike, explaining the inspiration behind the title of HIGH ON FIRE’s title track, “Electric Messiah.” “When Lemmy was still alive I always got compared to Lemmy,” the gravelly-voiced guitarist elaborates, “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.'”
Purchase Electric Messiah here: http://smarturl.it/ElectricMessiah
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