This one’s for the underground metal nerds: Heavy-as-a-stone headbangers High on Fire are playing the Domino Room in Bend on Nov. 19.
The band — fronted by Matt Pike of the revered metal band Sleep — plays a pretty awesome blend of chugging traditional metal and druggy stoner/doom stuff, with fantasy elements that course throughout the music. For example, when UltimateGuitar.com asked him about the origins of High on Fire’s 2010 album “Snakes for the Divine,” Pike answered thusly:
“The title ‘Snakes for the Divine’ is based on the premise that Adam and Eve weren’t the first people on Earth, and Adam actually having a wife that was a Reptilian named Lilith. They were the first two people to actually take the reptilian DNA, and make shape shifting human beings that go between the fourth-dimensional, the Anunnaki, and human beings. Eventually, from ancient Mesopotamia, this spawned a thing called the Illuminati – the enlightened ones – coming up through the centuries, and choosing the kings, controlling your media, controlling your banking, blah blah blah. It’s just theory at most points. I thought it’d make a great metal song, so I just went ahead and started writing about that.”
He just went ahead and started writing about that!
Anyway, you can find tickets and more info here.
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My mind has melted just reading this nugget of news. Can’t WAIT for the 19th. Bend will not be the same after this show rolls through.