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Freak Valley Festival 2022: High on Fire Join Lineup

More surprising than High on Fire being announced for Freak Valley next year is the fact that they’ve never played it before. The two entities have shared existence for long enough that you would’ve thought they’d run into each other sooner or later, but if there has to be a first time 2022 works just as well as any. As previously announced — an announcement I wrote and somehow didn’t post here, oddly — Freak Valley 2022 will run an additional day with ticket-purchase optional for those who’ve already got passes to the main fest, which is and has been sold out. Witchcraft will headline that extra day, and Fu Manchu‘s delayed 30th anniversary will feature at the fest-proper, along now with High on Fire and a universe of others still to be added.

Get stoked and stay stoked for this one. I am. I don’t care what it takes, 2022 is my year to get to Siegen. If the pandemic has taught me anything it’s that life is too short and too precious to screw around.

Here’s High on Fire‘s announcement, which again, I wrote for the fest:

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Freakiest of Freaks!

Bear witness as the legends HIGH ON FIRE join the lineup for Freak Valley 2022!

If you’re reading these words, then in all likelihood, High On Fire need no introduction. Formed by guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike six months after SLEEP originally disbanded, the band would go on to become one of heavy music’s most essential acts, bridging thrash, doom and classic metal into a marauding style all their own and influencing a generation of bands in the process.

Records like ‘The Art of Self-Defense,’ ‘Death is This Communion,’ and ‘De Vermis Mysteriis’ are landmarks, but if you know High on Fire, you know they never do anything without utterly killing it. With Pike and longtime bassist Jeff Matz saying goodbye to founding drummer Des Kensel in 2019, the band recently enlisted Coady Willis (Big Business, ex-Melvins) to take on the role and are back to doing what they do best in blasting out some of the most intense and righteous heavy you’ve ever heard.

This will be High on Fire’s FIRST TIME on the Freak Valley stage and we know it will be a union to remember. Can’t wait to see you here in Netphen!

Lineup Freak Valley Festival 2022:
FU MANCHU
HIGH ON FIRE
WITCHCRAFT

Still many many more to come!

Freak Valley Festival // No Fillers – Just Killers

Freak Valley Festival 2022 IS SOLD OUT.

New date: June 15-18 2022

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High on Fire, “Blood From Zion” live in Austin, TX, June 19, 2021

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