High on Fire: "The Black Plot"

It's been something like three years since High on Fire had to cancel a tour so singer/guitarist Matt Pike could enter rehab, but the dearth of intoxicants has done little to temper his angrily defiant songwriting. Coming fresh off a reunion tour with his old band Sleep, Pike and co. reconvene for the upcoming album Luminiferous, HOF's first in three years, of which "The Black Plot" is the first taste. Nothing we haven't really heard before out of the trio, but then the band have never been overtly experimental, so given expectations this scratches a proper itch.

High on Fire: "Fertile Green"

This Phil Mucci guy doesn't fuck around. If psychotronic exploitation movies are metal then this shit right here may just be the most metal video every created. And what better band to underscore the G.O.A.T. metal flick than High on Fire, whose mainman Matt Pike should be getting out of rehab soon, presumably to hang out with Zakk Wylde and reminisce about the good ol' years... what little of them they can remember ("spoken like a true recidivist drunk!", you say; "I don't need metal to get high!", I retort).