HIGH ON FIRE Release “The Black Plot” Animated Video

US metallers High On Fire have premiered their new music video for the song “The Black Plot”. Directed by visionary art freak, Skinner (Mastodon) and visual effects team, Hey Beautiful Jerk (Run the Jewels, NIN), “The Black Plot” video is an animated tour de force and a wild psychedelic fantasy epic.

“I wanted to make an animated short film with Hey Beautiful Jerk, I just didn’t know how completely crazy it would get,” says Skinner. “At first I thought we should do a real simple story with action fights to wear down the timing a little bit. But then I thought, fuck it, here’s a super complicated story with a million characters and it’s off the wall crazy and shit. Wanna do it?”

“This has definitely been the most challenging and the most rewarding project in the history of Hey Beautiful Jerk,” adds the team of Mark Szumski and Gina Niespodziani. “Creatively, we did not make many concessions and we really pushed ourselves to see how far we could take this thing. It worked.”

“The Black Plot” is taken from High On Fire’s latest album, Luminiferous. Watch the new video below:

High On Fires’s celebrated albums Snakes For The Divine, De Vermis Mysteriis and Luminiferous have been issued on cassette for the very first time via eOne. The cassettes are released as a limited edition bundle pack, which can be ordered at this location.

High On Fire will tour North America this fall as direct support to Sweden’s Meshuggah. The titanic team-up will kick off on October 11th in Atlanta, GA, running through November 6th in Silver Spring, MD.

Tour dates:

October
11 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
12 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
13 – Marathon Music Works – Nashville, TN
16 – House Of Blues – Houston, TX
17 – House Of Blues – Dallas, TX
19 – The Novo – Los Angeles, CA
24 – Ogden Theatre – Denver, CO
25 – Liberty Hall – Lawrence, KS
26 – Mill City Nights – Minneapolis, MN
28 – House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
29 – The Majestic – Detroit, MI
30 – Phoenix Concert Theatre – Toronto, ON
31 – Metropolis – Montreal, QC

November
2 – House Of Blues – Boston, MA
3 – Playstation Theater – New York, NY
4 – The Trocadero Theatre – Philadelphia, PA
5 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
6 – The Fillmore – Silver Spring, MD