What led you to incorporate large amounts of drive in your tone? I’m so grateful to be performing live again. But now it feels somewhat “normal” again. It felt strange at first, getting on stage again after so much time off. Now we’re finally back to playing shows again. During the whole lockdown, we continued to work on music for a new HOF album. I’ve met so many cool people through teaching, and it’s pushed me to expand my knowledge of music and continue to improve as a player. I started teaching private bass students via Skype and Zoom, which I still continue to do. We’ve all had to figure out new ways to get by since we weren’t able to tour. How are you and your band dealing with this last year, and what does your future look like? Also, a lot of people think that it’s guitar playing that harmonized lines at the end of the song, but it’s actually bass. We kicked it around at practice and Matt came up with the B part/chorus and the lyrics/vocal melody. That’s how the basis of the song came to be. Then I came up with the main chord progression underneath it and then the harmonies. I came up with the main melody spontaneously while I was playing around with my looper. That song grew out of a bass loop I came up with late one night in 2010. “King of Days” has such a great bass melody in the intro and outro. It typically comes about and evolves pretty organically. Most of the time we don’t have a preconception of what our new material should sound like. When High On Fire does slow, heavy material, it naturally ends up sounding much different from Sleep. Sleep and High On Fire are such different animals and they operate completely independent of one another. Do you have to record a song or an album with a particular mindset? I’m also working on another exciting project, which I can’t talk about just yet, as well as preparing an album of solo material–lots of irons in the fire at the moment!Ĭan you explain how you guys write those incredible High On Fire riffs? Most know Matt is also in the doom metal band Sleep, and both bands are very different. In addition to High On Fire, I have also joined Mutoid Man, which I’m very excited about! They have been one of my favorite bands for years, so it’s a blast to perform those songs live with them and writing new music with Steve and Ben has been amazing. As far as upcoming HOF shows, we are about to play 3 nights in Chicago, then we have a short West Coast run around New Year’s Eve and a European tour planned for June-July 2022. With HOF, we have been focusing our efforts on writing a new album with our new drummer Coady Willis it is coming along nicely. It was so great to return to those cities. I just returned home from playing some East Coast shows with High On Fire. Jeff has been in the music industry for quite some time and we were lucky enough to virtually sit down with him, ask a few questions and hear what he and the band have been up to lately. Don’t let his easy-going demeanor fool you, inside his body is a steady-state of simmering riffs and grooves just dying to get out. Jeff Matz is proof there is still a place for nice guys in rock and roll. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.Photo by Drew Nesbitt Interview with Jeff Matz courtesy of Bergantino’s Lee Presgrave… He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. Now he sets the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010.
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