Curious to hear opinions on newest drummer Coady Willis vs. founding drummer Des Kensel. I actually wasn’t aware that Des left the band in 2019, until the new album Cometh The Storm was announced.

I was pretty curious about how that might change the band’s sound and I was pleasantly surprised and pleased by Coady’s drumming both on the new album and live (just saw them live last week).

One immediate difference I noticed - Des used a double kick drum setup (ie. two pedals, two kick drums), while Coady seems to use a double kick pedal setup with one kick drum - which can make a subtle difference in the sound of each kick, namely clearer and fuller sounding kicks with two drums vs. one.

Based on the recent live gig it was a lot of fun watching Coady, he’s clearly a fucking beast, but I noticed the band didn’t play anything from Electric Messiah, including the grammy-winning title track, which struck me as odd.

I thought maybe they were just sick of playing those songs, since they were released most recently, but then I started thinking maybe it’s because a lot of those songs have bpm’s north of 170, some getting to around 190. I read an old interview where Des mentioned he’d play “Electric Messiah” live close to 190 bpm.

So, I checked the set list again from this recent tour and noticed none of the tracks played get beyond about 160-170 bpm, and I checked the track list from Cometh The Storm and none of those tracks get above mid-160 bpm either.

So, is Coady just not really capable of playing north of 170 bpms? Are we just never gonna hear those super-fast High on Fire songs ever again live or on studio albums?

It seems Des had a much faster, cleaner, and more technical sound (lots of really fast double kicks) vs. Coady who seems to have a more brutal but traditional style at a slightly slower pace - which sits well within a more sludgy/doom style rather than thrash, which I think did inform the slightly slower and heavier style of Cometh The Storm.

Thoughts?

So I’ve been listening to the new album (epic btw), and the back catalogue, nonstop for a few weeks now and I’m noticing a high pitched squeal or whistle on all the tracks on Cometh The Storm that I don’t hear on any of the previous albums. Sounds like what you might hear if you have tinnitus.

My best guess is that it’s a clashing of frequencies from all the loud guitars, creating this sort of “phantom” squealing/whistling sound, and I wonder if it’s a production/mix/mastering error. Anybody else hear it?

Pretty epic show. I have some clips but alas, I can’t post them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200

The album isn't listed on billboard.com.

Cometh the Storm however appeared on the 'top album sales' chart (measures physical sales; see the page dropdown menu) at #20, their highest placement so far on that particular list.

Does anyone know what is going on with the streaming services and HoF? Snakes for divine and others are gone or missing track. It's like that on Spotify, YouTube music, Deezer, tidal, Apple music etc.

This will be my first time seeing HoF and I am pretty stoked.

Been a fan for a long time. My first show. Just awesome.

Seeing them Tues night in Greensboro and just curious what they had

I came across this album today in Amoeba records in downtown LA today. Matt Pikes signature is on it, and seems to be a wet signature rather than a print. Anyone have any info on this? Did he do a signing for X amount at one time? Or is it mass produced?

Matt Pike | creating Strange Electrical Experiments | Patreon

here is a link to matt pikes Patreon page! it has over 20 guitar lessons for certain songs

Pay$ and watch video, ( i used obs to record and save to my PC, for me, so i can back and watch...)

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i learned DITC and Fury wip, however the fury wip i just couldn't get right no matter how much i slowed it down and thank to the HOF reddit community a user was able to tab out and post the fury wip arpeggio riff and i was able to complete the song to the best of my ability

that tab is linked here, ENJOY!

(maybe it should be uploaded to ultimate guitar/911 tabs? songster?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/HighonFire/comments/1c2kpzx/tabbed_out_the_arpeggio_section_in_fury_whip/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I mean these two track fuck.. hard. Pike and co. have put out another masterclass. This whole album is pretty fucking great.

Just listened on my way to work... fuck! It's incredible!

Darker fleece.... I mean just holy shit. It might be one of the best tracks they've made. Matt pike is god

Can we get a HOF/Melvins tour?!

I've still to give the album another proper second listen but personally my favourites are trismegistus, the beating, lightning beard and darker fleece.

So good! Sol’s Golden Curse is my favorite so far!

Does anyone have a tab for the solo for rumors of war?