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All rights reserved. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php?artist=7977 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:02:01 -0400 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:41:25 -0500 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/static/_img/logo_trans.png https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/modules/rss/news.xml.php?artist=7977 144 44 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/want-to-put-a-tin-foil-hat-on-me-conspiracies-freedom-and-fire-forged-a-modern-metal-classic-are-we-still-listening-179690 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/want-to-put-a-tin-foil-hat-on-me-conspiracies-freedom-and-fire-forged-a-modern-metal-classic-are-we-still-listening-179690 Features: "The minute that you restrict me from being nuts is the minute we've lost all of our freedom, man."]]> Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:02:01 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fires_matt_pike_opens_up_on_bands_approach_to_writing_i_will_not_put_out_filler.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fires_matt_pike_opens_up_on_bands_approach_to_writing_i_will_not_put_out_filler.html Music News: "When I started this band, it was a rule that I would not put out bullshit." ]]> Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:52:25 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fires_matt_pike_opens_up_on_bands_approach_to_writing_i_will_not_put_out_filler.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fires_matt_pike_opens_up_on_bands_approach_to_writing_i_will_not_put_out_filler.html Music News: "When I started this band, it was a rule that I would not put out bullshit." ]]> Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:48:58 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_release_mastodon-tinged_bonecrusher_title_song_from_new_album_our_eyes_are_on_jeff_matzs_bass.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_release_mastodon-tinged_bonecrusher_title_song_from_new_album_our_eyes_are_on_jeff_matzs_bass.html Music News: The song is utterly relentless and ends in heavy, droning madness.]]> Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:07:44 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_release_new_single_and_announces_9th_studio_album_cometh_the_storm.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_release_new_single_and_announces_9th_studio_album_cometh_the_storm.html Music News: "That feeling of making something out of all of these imperfect parts and it becomes this magical, weird, new idea that none of us ever anticipated."]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:44:54 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_have_completed_their_ninth_album.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_have_completed_their_ninth_album.html Music News: New sludge metal soon! ]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:29:52 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_started_working_on_a_new_album.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_started_working_on_a_new_album.html Music News: A follow-up to 2018's "Electric Messiah".]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 14:00:02 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/sleeps_matt_pike_looks_back_on_childhoods_drug_use_speaks_on_how_he_avoids_relapses_these_days.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/sleeps_matt_pike_looks_back_on_childhoods_drug_use_speaks_on_how_he_avoids_relapses_these_days.html Music News: "We'd take LSD and drink Jim Beam all over downtown Denver".]]> Mon, 02 May 2022 16:37:48 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pike_says_he_took_jazz_theory_courses_to_write_sleeps_holy_mountain_describes_what_recording_with_brent_hinds_is_like.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pike_says_he_took_jazz_theory_courses_to_write_sleeps_holy_mountain_describes_what_recording_with_brent_hinds_is_like.html Music News: "He's straight off the porch in Alabama. That's what he sounds like… it's the real deal!"]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:06:43 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fires_matt_pike_recalls_best_advice_lemmy_ever_gave_him_talks_his_amputated_toe__performing_shirtless.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fires_matt_pike_recalls_best_advice_lemmy_ever_gave_him_talks_his_amputated_toe__performing_shirtless.html Music News: "Lemmy told me to not wax my ears!"]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2020 14:39:16 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/mastodons_brent_hinds__sleeps_matt_pike_are_making_music_together_have_around_2_hours_of_ideas.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/mastodons_brent_hinds__sleeps_matt_pike_are_making_music_together_have_around_2_hours_of_ideas.html New Releases: "It's just putting them all together," Pike says.]]> Wed, 13 May 2020 11:02:12 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pike_speaks_up_on_sobering_up_reacts_to_james_hetfield_undergoing_rehab.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pike_speaks_up_on_sobering_up_reacts_to_james_hetfield_undergoing_rehab.html Music News: "I play better and I feel better when I just don't drink alcohol," the High on Fire frontman says.]]> Sun, 05 Jan 2020 23:50:15 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pikes_one-of-a-kind_pedalboard_robbed_by_delta_airlines_employees.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pikes_one-of-a-kind_pedalboard_robbed_by_delta_airlines_employees.html Music News: The airline had reportedly delivered an empty case to Sleep and High on Fire frontman, denying all insurance claims.]]> Sat, 29 Jun 2019 17:58:28 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_tease_new_material_to_be_released_as_limited_edition_vinyl_on_record_store_day.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_tease_new_material_to_be_released_as_limited_edition_vinyl_on_record_store_day.html Music News: Be sure to make room for some "Bat Salad".]]> Fri, 08 Mar 2019 11:46:20 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pike_reveals_serious_health_problem_high_on_fire_tour_canceled.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/matt_pike_reveals_serious_health_problem_high_on_fire_tour_canceled.html Music News: The guitarist already had one of his toes partially amputated last year.]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:45:00 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/high_on_fire_wrap_up_recording_of_new_studio_album_matt_pike_hold_on_tight_youre_in_for_a_ride.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/high_on_fire_wrap_up_recording_of_new_studio_album_matt_pike_hold_on_tight_youre_in_for_a_ride.html Community Feed: Heavy goodness coming our way.]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:18:29 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/wtf/high_on_fire_frontman_matt_pike_just_went_full_blown_conspiracy_theorist.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/wtf/high_on_fire_frontman_matt_pike_just_went_full_blown_conspiracy_theorist.html Wtf?: "I'm doing my part to tell the New World Order to f--k off," he states.]]> Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:08:44 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/high_on_fire_new_album_tour_dates_announced.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/high_on_fire_new_album_tour_dates_announced.html New Releases: High On Fire will release its new studio album, "De Vermis Mysteriis". on April 3.]]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:08:12 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/hit_the_lights_high_on_fires_matt_pike_lyrics_about_exorcising_my_own_personal_demons.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/interviews/hit_the_lights_high_on_fires_matt_pike_lyrics_about_exorcising_my_own_personal_demons.html Interviews: Robert Gray telephoned High On Fire's manager, who passed her phone onto frontman Matt Pike to discuss "Snakes For The Divine".]]> Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:10:13 -0400 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_announces_us_headlining_tour.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/high_on_fire_announces_us_headlining_tour.html Music News: High On Fire has announced a spring US headlining tour.]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:48:04 -0500 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/high_on_fire_snakes_for_the_divine_cover_artwork_unveiled.html https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/high_on_fire_snakes_for_the_divine_cover_artwork_unveiled.html New Releases: High On Fire will release its fifth studio album, "Snakes For The Divine", on February 23.]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:41:25 -0500