Ep447: Matt Pike & Coady Willis of High on Fire

The Vinyl Guide Interview - For Record Collectors & Music Nerds

Matt Pike (Sleep) and Coady Willis (Big Business, Melvins) discuss their latest High on Fire album "Cometh The Storm", the many vinyl variants, touring, winning a Grammy and much more.

Topic Include:

• Coady and Matt fighting with Zoom
• Great response to the new album
• When is it time to do a new High on Fire album
• The process of writing a new album
• Lessons learnt with Melvins brought to High on Fire
• Any outtakes or over-recording?
• Involvement in the vinyl variants
• Quantities of vinyl pressings
• Forming and sequencing the album
• Where Matt keeps his Grammy
• Memories of Lemmy
• Reaction when the Grammy nomination was announced
• Busting Coady’s chops
• Touring the new LP first in Europe
• Is post-Covid touring normalizing?
• Potential Australian tour dates to be announced?
• Integrating tours with various other bands
• What’s up with Big Business?
• Balancing multiple bands
• Sleep Dopesmoker pot leaf vinyl from Third Man
• Al is great at marketing and merch ideas
• The Sleep Vault materials
• The recent reissue of “The Art of Self Defence”
• Interview wrap up

Get High on Fire "Cometh The Storm" on vinyl here.

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