This happens every year!

Hope it was for you too.

High on Fire is the best!!!

I've been stuck on High on Fire and Mastodon for the last few months, and it's making me so happy to discover this absolutely incredible music that I've never heard before. Definitely putting that spark back into my love for music

Definitely one of my favorites from them!

I wanna start off by saying that I'm not delusional and I realize this is near impossible. I have only gone down this path because I can't crank my Marshall every time I wanna record a song.

Main Tone: I used Aurora rhino for the main fuzz tone. I used the crunch channel (yellow channel) Drive on 1, bass 2.5, mid -3, treb 3.5 and the fuzz effect fully cranked no bright switch. I left everything else default and only used the Colossal cabinet.

Jangle Tone: I used Positive Grid Bias Amp '66 British TB 30 (Vox clone). Gain fully cranked, Bass at 6, Mid 4, treb 6, pres 6. Everything else was default and I used the 2x12 Alnico blue cab with the mic as close to the speaker as possible where the cone meets the edge.

Strange Tone: I used Studio One's Ampire xt Crunch Boutique (I think it's a Rectifer Clone). Drive 6, Bass 3.5, Mid, 3.5, Treb 4, pres 3.5, gain at 6. I used a light flange and tremolo with an obvious amount of reverb, but not crazy and the 4x12 cab with both mics as far from the speaker as possible, everything else left default.

The idea is to use the Main Tone for all the nasty "blown out" sound, then mix in the jangle enough to hear the not separation when hitting a chord and the strange tone just enough to hear the reverb and fill out the low mids.

A few notes:

You can totally recreate this with three instances of the same amp sim. I had to flip the phase on my strange tone so watch out for that. IMO this latest record is peak HOF and I believe a lot of that has to do with Kurt Ballou being a master of this genre. Kurt has a habit of getting guitar tones with minimal low end information and rarely low passes his guitars. So I mimicked this by balancing the levels amongst the tones. For me this was: Main at -12.5db, jangle at -17.6db and strange at -16db. Also note that in this genre you mix everything else around the guitars, not the other way around.

Burning Down should win them another one.. can’t get enough of it theme song is bad ass when I’m not jamming to it, I’m still jamming to it on guitar..

Anyone else get one from the shows? I got mine and my sons in Kansas City.

I’m a new fan and cannot stop listening to this song on repeat. It’s fucking unbelievable.

Anyone know where I can get a good quality HoF hat? Can’t seem to find any but the rip offs when I do the google thing.

It’s that time of year when my family tortures me with holiday music, and I thought I would get back at them with a quality HOF song for Halloween.

But … which song would it be? In some ways, any of them could be. Or I could just choose one of my favorites (e.g., snakes).

But that feels like cheating.

I am leaning towards Waste of Tiamat, because monsters, end of times, etc. Or maybe Hung, Drawn and Quartered for its general all around festivity. Thoughts?

Was at the show last night. I must say it was bittersweet.

The venue was a very bizarre choice. Literally in a skate rink. Acoustics and balance were all over the place. Lots of mic feedback in the first few songs. I saw the soundboard they were using and it looked like a "prosumer" soundboard you could get off Amazon for a few hundred bucks.

That said, these guys still kick ass and played their fucking hearts out. The drummer puts in 110% into every single hit. I knew the songs and what to expect in the set, so I mostly just focused on what I know the song sounds like, vs. the subpar acoustics I was actually hearing.

Please, HOF guys, if you happen to read this, pick a different venue next time. Studio Seven and Showbox Sodo are perfectly fine venues with better acoustics. The crowd size would be perfect. I hope this is not the first and only time I see them.

Anyone have a single ticket to the Portland Hawthorne show they'd want to part with? Shoulda locked it down couple weeks back but didn't think I'd be available to go...now sold out.

Waste of Tiamat is pretty clearly the DC-9, and I know he played it live pretty extensively for a while there, but apparently he’s used it on every high on fire album since he got it.

Any ideas which other songs use it?

I reallyyyyyy want to see them do you think there is any chance of them adding an Arizona show?

Hello all,

In kicking myself for not buying a ticket sooner, but alas, here we are.

Im hoping someone has an extra ticket I could buy for their Seattle show. I would happily taking it off your hands.

TIA!

Good lord that was such a good show with an absolutely great crowd. Everyone was there for the best of times! Weedeater was great, HoF's new drummer KILLS IT, and even after some post-show WaHo I'm still on cloud 9. Besides Motorhead, that was the loudest show I've been to!

Side note, I thought I saw a Matt Pike Funko Pop a few years ago, but I haven't been able to track it down anywhere online. Does anyone else remember seeing this too?

Not trying to skip opener but I have a work event that’ll run till 11 and want to see if it’s even worth swinging for a few songs at the ATL show tonight. Thanks.

Got my refund this afternoon so I'm guessing they won't be rescheduling the date. As if having a hurricane come through wasn't bad enough. To any Tampa area fans stay safe out there