The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds Ep447: Matt Pike & Coady Willis of High on Fire
May 6, 2024
32:02
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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