Cometh the Storm
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 on drums since the departure of co-founder Des Kensel in July 2019, and is the band's longest album to date, clocking in at 57 minutes. It follows a five-year gap from Electric Messiah (2018).
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| Released | April 19, 2024 | |||
| Studio | GodCity (Salem, Massachusetts) | |||
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| Length | 57:42 | |||
| Label | MNRK Heavy | |||
| Producer | Kurt Ballou | |||
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"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