Friday, August 1, 2014

HIGH ON FIRE: Announces North American Tour Dates

Bay Area, California stoner/doomsters HIGH ON FIRE have announced summer and fall 2014 NORTH AMERICAN tour dates as the summer dates feature FREE shows (RSVP-FREE FOR SPECTATORS) as a part of CONVERSE RUBBER TRACKS LIVE TOUR.  









HIGH ON FIRE unleashed the single "Slave The Hive", 10/16/2013 via SCION A/V.

HIGH ON FIRE unleashed "De Vermis Mysteriis" 4/3/2012 on eONE MUSIC.






FROM ACTION PR.COM:
Uber-Power Trio to Headline First-Ever Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour; Locked in to Perform at Both 2014 Hopscotch Music Festival and Motörhead’s Motörboat Rock Cruise “Like CREAM on a rocket to hell. HIGH ON FIRE dish out low-frequency terror that turns your innards to black tar.” - ROLLING STONE  Herculean hard rock heavyweights HIGH ON FIRE have announced summer tour dates. The globally celebrated heavy metal pioneers will kick off the must-see live performances on August 12 in Cambridge, MA as headliners of the inaugural Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour. The just-announced run will continue with stops in Toronto (Aug. 14), Brooklyn (Aug. 15), Los Angeles (Aug. 19) and San Francisco(Aug. 20). Tickets for the Converse Rubber Tracks Live Tour are free (see below for ticketing links) and the jaunt will coincide with Converse Rubber Tracks “pop-up” recording studios in each city, providing opportunities for emerging artists to unleash their creative spirit. Additionally, HIGH ON FIRE will appear among the featured acts at the 2014Hopscotch Music Festival, set to take place September 4-6 in Raleigh, NC. HIGH ON FIRE, who feature guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike, drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz, will headline the Lincoln Theater on Saturday, Sept. 6 as part of the festival, with Witch Mountain, Subrosa and Demon Eye opening the evening’s festivities. HIGH ON FIRE will showcase at Hopscotch alongside fellow headliners Mastodon, St. Vincent, Sun Kil Moon, The War on Drugs and more. For full details, visit HopscotchMusicFest.com. Finally, HIGH ON FIRE will take its audio annihilation to the sea as part of the inceptive Motörhead’s Motörboat. Described as “the ultimate music festival cruise vacation”, the seafaring soiree will set sail September 22-26 from Miami, FL aboard a Carnival Cruise ship, christened as “The Loudest Boat In The Wörld”. Joining HIGH ON FIRE will be Motörhead (natch), Megadeth, Anthrax, Zakk Wylde, DOWN, Testament and more. Visit MotorheadCruise.com for full details. HIGH ON FIRE North American tour dates: ** = Converse Rubber Tracks Tour presents HIGH ON FIRE # = Blackest supports % = Arctic supports August 12    Cambridge, MA        The Sinclair  ** #  (LINK) August 14    Toronto, ON             Adelaide Hall ** #  (LINK) August 15    Brooklyn, NY            Music Hall of Williamsburg ** #  (LINK) August 19    Los Angeles, CA      Echoplex ** %  (LINK) August 20    San Francisco, CA  The Chapel ** %  (LINK) September 6     Raleigh, NC         Hopscotch Festival  (w/ Mastodon, Sun Kil Moon, St. Vincent, Valient Thorr, etc.) September 19   Tampa, FL          The Orpheum September 20   Miami, FL            Grand Central September 21   Orlando, FL        Will’s Pub    ​ September 22  THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN as part of Motörhead’s Motörboat (w/ Megadeth, Anthrax, DOWN, etc.) September 27   Portland, OR       Dantes HIGH ON FIRE have begun work on their new, as-yet-untitled studio album. The group has convened for strategic writing sessions in both New Orleans, LA and Oakland, CA, with early reports indicating the band’s new material to be both “epic” and “sonically huge”. A 2015 tentative release date via eOne Music is expected for the new LP, the follow-up to 2012′s De Vermis Mysteriis, which has been hailed as “not for the faint of heart ” by The New Yorker and “a fantastically constructed bloodbath” by Entertainment Weekly. “HIGH ON FIRE is the sludgy resin from 30 years of super-hard-rock history transubstantiated into three men from Oakland with low-slung jeans” - THE NEW YORK TIMES - See more at: http://action-pr.com/featured/high-on-fire-announces-north-american-tour-dates/#sthash.WTQRmts2.dpuf

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-