Cometh the Storm

Cometh the Storm
A painting of a pirate ship in orange clouds
Studio album by
High on Fire
ReleasedApril 19, 2024 (2024-04-19)
StudioGodCity (Salem, Massachusetts)
Genre
Length57:42
LabelMNRK Heavy
Producer
High on Fire chronology
Bat Salad
(2019) 		Cometh the Storm
(2024)

"Mostly, it's about reinventing ourselves: building our machine back up after a few years away. But it's also about [what's been happening in the world]. People are wandering around, talking about nuclear war as if it's casual – 'Oh, it's just nuclear war!' Environmentalism doesn't seem to be doing any good for the environment – or us. It feels like there has been a big storm building since before COVID and now shit's hitting the fan. We're just singing about the times!"

—Frontman Matt Pike on themes of Cometh the Storm[3]

Cometh the Storm is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band High on Fire, released on April 19, 2024, through MNRK Heavy. It marks their first album with Coady Willis of Big Business & The Melvins on drums since the departure of co-founder Des Kensel in July 2019. It follows a five-year gap from Electric Messiah and mixes the band's previous sludge metal and stoner metal genres with Turkish folk music[4] and Middle Eastern music.[5] It has received positive reviews from critics.

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