High On Fire De Vermis Mysteriis

2012, Since the Oakland power trio's inception in 1998 they've released six earth-splitting albums, each seemingly more unstoppable than the last. Forever haunting the halls of the Iommic Temple - the band's own philosophical monument to Black Sabbath riff master Tony Iommi - High On Fire have become legends in their own time. As bong-huffing genre music rises and falls around them like so much windborne detritus, guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike, drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz comprise the all-seeing eye of a perpetual riff-storm, always looking toward a future in which The End is always near.