High On Fire - The Black Plot

THE BLACK PLOT by HIGH ON FIRE
A SHORT FILM BY SKINNER AND HEY BEAUTIFUL JERK
Concept - SKINNER
Directed by - GINA NIESPODZIANI and MARK SZUMSKI
Story - SKINNER, GINA NIESPODZIANI, MARK SZUMSKI
Character Design - SKINNER
Visual Effects - MARK SZUMSKI and GINA NIESPODZIANI
Editor - GINA NIESPODZIANI
Animation Direction - SIMON AMPEL
Lead Animation - SIMON AMPEL, SAM LEYJA, PHILIP LOCKERBY, SIMON NAKAUCHI, JON NG, and DAVID ROUTHIER
Assistant Animation - SETH BRADY, ANGELA DEVITO, TYLER DIBIASO, BRYAN CAPIK, TUCKER KLEIN, HAMISH LAMBERT, and THOMAS SMOLENSKI
CG Animation - JONAH OSKOW
Color and Shading Artists - CAROL CAI, KELLY GARRETT, ADAM HEISIG, and GINA NIESPODZIANI
Storyboard Artists - SKINNER and SIMON AMPEL
Layout - SKINNER, ELLIOTT BYRNE, and MATTHEW PALIZAY
Executive Producers - SKINNER, MARK SZUMSKI, and GINA NIESPODZIANI
Production Coordinator - JON O’HARA
Trailer Sound Design and Audio Mix - CHRIS DENMAN
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[@BartKing]

This almost exact thing happened at our farmers market last week.

[@thompsonhunter6476]

Bart King

[@thompsonhunter6476]

That sir is my quote of the week!

[@BartKing]

Thompson Hunter :)

[@WorldOfGiants]

Holy shit I'm dying XD

[@kmeyers85]

Were you on acid?

[@The_OG_BlackMajik]

This dude is soloing raid bosses. Epic.

[@pftgfhbk]

Black Majik this is a dungeon from few expansions ago

[@dalek--ck9oy]

@@pftgfhbk we still haven't fought yeti queen yet

[@The_OG_BlackMajik]

It's ok guys, she's a tank and spank boss. "Spank."

[@marcelobecker3498]

Soloing Raid boss with just his helmet, underwear and boots on, Bröötal

[@brotheralaric7177]

@@marcelobecker3498 real tanks don''t need pants.

[@jacobdas13]

this is the coolest music video I have watched ever

[@plixplop]

Damn, a 5+ minute fully animated video is no joke, this was a huge undertaking. Amazing!

[@alexsingleton907]

It's gorgeous

[@altdoom]

So beautiful I'm crying, looks like a sequel to Heavy Metal movie

[@Alexandre-sd9rg]

i was thinking exactly the same ! A psychedeledic version Heavy Metal !

[@biggoathorns]

Alt+Doom there is a movie coming out next year like Heavy Metal. Google "The Planet of Doom" movie. It's gonna be awesome.

[@thatonechick1735]

Alt+Doom I thought the same thing.

[@zachbohemian]

there is a heavy metal 2. heavy metal 2000

[@ethananderson2327]

Oh fuck yes

[@reigninoel]

This video may actually be the most metal thing ever.

[@Cyrusleaf]

Listen to acid fuzz by toxic holocaust. Thats way more metal

[@THEshaggyrogers]

cyrusleaf1101 very close but isn’t as long or interesting as this video

[@stonedgaming7900]

IT "IS" THE MOST METAL THING EVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lolhyena1714]

Hopefully someone will post something here that can actually rival this insane shit!!!

[@metalwizard5502]

@@lolhyena1714 YEAAAAHRGH

[@28kiriku]

Frazetta, Moorcock, H.P Lovecraft, Ralph Bakshi....This video is pure gold....

[@argonaut741]

And hits of Jack Kirby as well

[@28kiriku]

@@argonaut741 amen bruv

[@dominikwilliams1703]

"In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened. One stood..." Badass music and animation!

[@dsvet]

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[@stosika]

Sounds like Tolkien

[@DoktorStrangelove]

@@stosika It's from DOOM (2016)

[@joseaugustodasilvagoncal-su5fu]

"He choose the path of perpetual torment In his ravenous hatred, he found no peace He scoured the Umbral Plains Seeking vengeance against the dark lords who have wronged him And those that tasted the bite of his sword named him... The Doom Slayer"

[@Adamant1993]

It is 'Doom' metal dude...

[@zaikoji]

Love the affinity between this kind of stuff and metal. Wish this were a series..

[@chodymaximus13]

If Gandalf the Grey came back as Gandalf the Black.

[@Tuttermuts]

My fav saturday morning cartoon

[@Tuttermuts]

***** That's some nice trolling you got going there, hows that paying your bills then?

[@Splagnet]

this convo is hilarious

[@hefipaleburp9543]

Tuttermuts 😂

[@Ominiumshadow24]

Can't till it comes with its own trading cards.

[@JoseTorres-yx3td]

1000 times better than he man

[@jontango1001]

Im stoned AF, and this is the best thing I have ever seen.

[@CarlosNagasaki]

Watch it on acid...sounds awesome too👹🤘🏼👽

[@TruculentSheep]

This is like the 1970s all over again, but done properly this time.

[@clockofthelongnow2695]

We need more of this and less of everything else!

[@absenceovmeasurablefrequen1709]

This is one of those rare statements that can never be disputed. Even in alternate realities this statement holds true.

[@JoseGranny]

Not really. The cancerous minions need to stay entertained lest they find their way to the purity that is High on Fire.

[@sonofmorrigan9003]

The animators must of had a lot of fun animating this.

[@simonampel]

it was fun as fuck

[@sonofmorrigan9003]

@@simonampel High on fire: "We want this video to be He-man, but heavy metal." Animation director: "Ok so your saying we should just go wilde?" High on fire:"Yes"

[@shanedude91]

@@simonampel were you one of the artists? What would you call this art style? I love it. It's reminiscent of Heavy Metal or a psychedelic He-Man

[@simonampel]

@@shanedude91 yes, i directed the character animation, boarded most of the second half and animated a fair amount of it (some shots in the beginning and most everything from about 3:33 to 4:20). It was directed by Hey Beautiful Jerk and Skinner and it's intended to look like one of his paintings. There's a lot of inspiration from old saturday morning cartoons, heavy metal comics, conan and all that good pulp fiction shit we grew up on. Not sure what to call the style, but I wish there was more of it. You can see more of my work on insta (@simonampel) and there's a few in process things from this up on my site (simonampel.com) Hey Beautiful Jerk and Skinner also have instas which are worth checking out. In fact, the whole crew was pretty badass and I recommend looking them up. The credits are below the vid.

[@shanedude91]

@@simonampel hey man thanks for the info! You guys did a great job on this

[@sephiroth925ify]

He-Man goes stoner.

[@immortui1832]

He-Man meets Hoffman

[@ShadowSpike94]

High-Man

[@janwaalwijk666]

But maybe He was stoner all along??

[@foxbox4366]

King, star 💫 king 👑

[@user-lk8mp7xx7d]

Здарова, я тебе 460 лайк влепил.

[@absenceovmeasurablefrequen1709]

I'm pretty sure Matt Pike is the god of guitar riffs. He seems to just be pulling them straight out of the ether.

[@infomatrix7394]

Lyrics too. His lyrics are phenominal

[@glenellisquinn]

those drums are fuxking unstoppable

[@yashuarazohr486]

Moral of the story: stay dead, or a zombie witch will turn you into a mindless brute in order to kill the big guy in the hood and then take all the credit. Great video. Godspeed.

[@JP-mn5iv]

When people talk to me and I just kinda stare off into the distance with a blank expression on my face.... this is what’s going on in my brain!!

[@mahler2112]

This may be the coolest music video ever. I'm new to High on Fire but I am digging this pretty hard right now.

[@johnvonachen1672]

Lyrics in these High On Fire songs always easily stand up to scrutiny. Angry, majestic, epic. Boy if anybody ever deserved a Grammy it's these guys. These guys improved the gravitas of Grammys.

[@aginghippieliberaldouche4760]

"Our hero, Balthanon leads his army into battle! His intentions are not entirely noble, as he sacrifices his army to reach his arch nemesis, the Technomage, who is holed up in his castle, magically creating his army of bio-tech monsters and chilling with his powerful yet stylish helmet. Upon his arrival at the castle, Balthanon is easily defeated by the Technomage and his army and hauled to the graveyard like it ain’t no thing. On the verge of death, Balthanon is not doing great, when all of a sudden, a mystical yeti witch shows up to save the day! She heals him with some magic shrooms that make him trip his balls off and ultimately gives him the strength he needs to take on the Techromage again. He runs back to the castle for revenge, but whose revenge is he actually exacting? Watch and find out!" - The plot of "The Black Plot"

[@RobsMemoryLane]

Great synopsis. Did you make that up or is that copy and pasted from somewhere?

[@aginghippieliberaldouche4760]

I just wanted to spread the word, you can find the whole article about this music video on Juxtapoz Magazine

[@sleepybreadmaker8597]

Aging Hippie Liberal Douche nice

[@gaziltapig]

What?! This is about finding the perfect hat...

[@uncrownedoak7777]

Aging Hippie Liberal Douche The Vikings are credited with taking shrooms before fights. The description you posted is surely influenced by this Viking legend.

[@lordundhimself1310]

20 yrs and these guys REMAIN HEAVY. Thank the old gods for High on Fire

[@dvt1393]

I'm here from 5 years in the future to confirm that, High on Fire are indeed still HEAVY AS FUCK.

[@bigshexxy]

God damn that was a music video. it's been a while since I saw music videos like these where the band isn't just playing somewhere.

This is brutally beautiful. I love this so much!

[@kath1017]

The message of the story is work smarter not harder.

[@recious_xp7766]

and don't break deals.

[@Dji-gurda_Jdi-druga]

I think the message is sometimes you are a little bit unlucky, don't give up, try one more time!

[@idiocracylarper]

If you don't win, cheat and try again.

[@belialjuan30]

Saludes de Colombia!!! que chimba de energía!!!!! mas metal así!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@timcanuti5697]

these later adventure time episodes are a lil edgier than i remembered

[@NeroBaelside13]

Some of the coolest monster designs I've seen in a while, well animated and mind blowingly colorful.

[@MetalSlurry]

This song and animation is a masterpiece!!! I love how the animation is timed to the music.

[@charliesarmmole704]

Best opening band I've ever seen. They might as well be co-headlining with Meshuggah

[@jeremywilson4326]

Hell yea man !!!

[@hightreestess]

High on Fire videos are one of the main reasons I come to KZbin. I have their vinyl records, which is the way to listen for the best sound, but their dopest metal videos ever bring me back to this digital platform often! 🤟🏼 💚🔥🍃👌🏼🌬️💨💨💨

[@serpentinefire921]

Their music is recorded digitally. The vinyls are CDs with cracks and pops

[@hightreestess]

@@serpentinefire921 I like the cracks & pops

[@hightreestess]

@@serpentinefire921 Vinyl played on good speakers gives a better sound wave for sure as opposed to digital recordings uploaded digitally, then played back again digitally. Each time it comes through digital platforms, the sound wave gets more & more lost in translation. Vinyl is simply King! ✨

[@serpentinefire921]

@@hightreestess you're full of it son. Source audio is what counts. If the source audio is shit(like a digitally recorded and mastered vinyl) then the quality of the system means literally nothing. You paid twice as much to look hip about sometime you don't even understand. Congratulations

[@hightreestess]

@@serpentinefire921 Yo, life is a mirror, daughter... so maybe you're the one who's full of it. That's what I said in other words. I just didn't use a hip word like "source sound" to look cool on the interwebs. I guess I wasted all that time graduating college for Recording Technology & running soundboards as an Audio Tech Sound Engineer for my profession. What do I know? .... I'm just a woman. & You're just a troll. ✌🏼

[@iansmith8998]

This might be the most interesting music video I've ever seen. Want this dude to animate a movie like this.

[@kbkman7742]

whoever mixed/mastered this needs a medal fuckin great

[@Rikmenda]

wooooow ! ☠🤯

[@jonathanavelar9897]

I really wish this was a video game. Also, I love how the guy pretends to go back to being dead as if the weird witch-woman is going to leave his corpse alone

[@chrisaldridge3117]

I wasn’t expecting this video to be as good as it was! Top work

[@Regotowncityofhorrors]

ЭТО ШАДЕВАР!!! Мало просмотров для такого качественного контента:с

[@humbleheathen69]

I wasn't big on this song when it first came out. Now I can listen to it over and over it's so fucking metal.

[@sequoyahwright]

This video should be the trailer for a tabletop RPG called Dungeon Crawl Classics.

[@Tdrummer888]

Skinner was involved with this, the guy who made Mastodon's Once More 'Round The Sun's album artwork. Not surprising, but cool to see regardless

[@MrHupo]

The demon master is almsot the guy from once more around the sun

[@benlafleur7467]

Don't know the guy but he has a very poor taste in nicknames. A 'skinner' is what you call a child molester in jail.

[@thoticcusprime9309]

@@benlafleur7467 lmao

[@thoticcusprime9309]

@@benlafleur7467 and how would you know?hmm

[@MetalSupporter95]

@@benlafleur7467 so everyone with skinner as their last name is a child molester. thank you for letting me know

[@MrQuarantine]

Here because of Toonami, the vid blew my mind.

[@MetalPersonJ]

This was on Toonami? Holy crap!

[@sleepybreadmaker8597]

MrQuarantine same

[@HeatMyShorts]

also check out "fertile green". "toxic holocaust - acid fuzz" might be your kinda thing too...

[@HellRider_]

FUCK! How did I miss it? It was on during Naruto wasn't it?

[@EMEXD11]

really on toonami? it was on toonami??? damn xD

[@trixus4768]

This band is just keep getting better with every song I discover 🤘

[@jesserichards5582]

We deffinately need more music videos like this! Purely epic!

[@Taboo.Textiles]

Search sabaton, Thank me later.

[@geeksnotdead666]

Ozzy Osbourne - Lemmy Kilmister Hellraiser has the same style

[@CarlosNagasaki]

I can’t ever get enough of this song and to the person who made the video 🙏🏼✊🏼🤘🏼👾

[@bfortier5198]

awesome animated Metal music video, the band should pay same team to release more . love the animation conclusion, perfect.

[@cannibalghost6669]

Acid+this song= one epic time! 😎🤘

[@westonvirginia6458]

Skinner sure knocked it out of the park with his animation on this one

[@JohnnyWad309]

Holy shit how am I just now finding this??? Song fucking rocks! Music video fucking rocks! This is so fucking heavy! 36 years old and I haven't gotten pumped up by a heavy metal song like this in almost 10 years. Totally fucking epic!!!!!

[@cafesociety8525]

Legit one of the greatest hard rocking tunes I've ever heard. Big love. X

[@electricwizard3000]

OHHH SHIIIIIIIIITTT...!!! 🤘😲

[@Dane_plays_guitar]

🔥🔥🔥

[@ermac65]

Getting some Heavy Metal movie vibes from this. I like it!

[@conagherdenson2194]

Byzantine oh yeah that's probably the vibe they were going for

[@batman66ism]

I was thinking the same thing which I still watch to this day

[@wesleyfilms]

I was thinking of He-Man and Fire and Ice.

[@Mitchery]

Check out 'LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS'.

[@warmbeer6282]

just need a cocaine vacuum alien

[@Gibson343088]

I never thought of it before but HIgh On FIre is the perfect music for horror comics like Heavy Metal, Eerie, and Creepy Comics.

[@don_tancredo]

True piece of Art. Thanks.

[@hell4raizer]

3:53 that scream, the guitar: it's fucking perfect lol. I laugh every time its so badass

[@THEshaggyrogers]

C H same with 3:22

[@minimight4649]

first time listener, I'm in love with this guys voice

[@NecroticHelios]

F*cking youtube algorithm! Where the hell was this masterpiece all along?!

[@jimmypennell8831]

That is badass asf😂. Love those guys

[@Skulletor]

Music video of the year?

[@mixelplik]

Of the decade!

[@Skulletor]

It's been a minute, I'm going to watch it again.@@mixelplik

[@greatpower6063]

That moment when you almost die and wake up later to see a monster looming right over you *closes eyes lays back down, plays dead*

[@joaofilipus2670]

vocês são demais, im a brasilian and i like this band

[@Sebastianthorn69]

Had a black light poster like this. It came to life like this as well. With the help of some serious acid!

[@hohman6]

berserk is lit yo

[@Shagamaw-100]

lol

[@complete_state_of_negation3098]

that was pretty fucking epic man wow

[@stonedgaming7900]

this song is an electric bomb. i love how it vaporizes my ears .... and the rest of my flesh.

[@poppinlochnesshopster3249]

That singer sounds like a less raspy Lemmy Kilmister.

[@memebot6490]

He's still raspy but he has a deeper voice imo. Love both of them!

[@scaberouswretch3673]

Poppin' Loch Ness Hopster Matt pike is basically the new Lemmy.

[@RegularSean]

Though he may not be the Lemmy we deserve, Matt Pike is the Lemmy we need now.

[@beccablack6807]

shits

[@balintkristof8442]

Poppin' Loch Ness Hopster I don't hear any Lemmy in this. But the Killmister did have a very unique voice.

[@wolfsfroth]

I hereby nominate this for all-space-time greatest music video in the multiverse.

[@rushthezeppelin]

That is one of the trippiest music vids I've ever seen......It's Heavy Metal turned up to 11!!!

[@azothamenti3378]

Straight bad assery!!

[@emanuelrodrigues282]

SO POWERFULL!

[@elie5534]

I saw this band in summer 2015 at the FEQ, they played the second entry (I don't remember the first metal band before) Megadeth but High on Fire was so good I never heard of that band before that. The Black Pot is the first song I've heard of HOF because they started the show with that song!

[@gagaku666]

This is the baddest ass thing I've seen in years.

[@robertjohnston-mp5im]

This is the most epic music video ever made. It's like a much more violent Heavy Metal, and I am all for it.

[@RicardoMorales-zv9tw]

Awesome!!!! Keep storytelling!

[@hugoaguilar5297]

High on fire/Skinner is a sonic and visual blast!!!!

[@metallian999]

This remembers me about "Korgoth of Barbaria" ... to bad it was chancelled! :-O

[@dr.velious5411]

Yeah, Korgoth was the shit, I still go back to watch it every once in awhile, Hell, even if they just did an episode as a yearly special that would be enough.

[@tommycat1993]

ThinkAdvantage my thought too

[@hennepzakje6375]

Only one episode... why?

[@butcherax]

hennep zakje It was a pilot for a show which wasn't adopted. Great shame

[@hennepzakje6375]

Ikr

[@cainraushus8132]

I wish more cartoon series were like this music video

[@sandyjones6079]

🤘🖤

[@gotmog13]

I want every frame of this video to be my wallpaper.

[@SSchneegs]

Welp...looks like I've found a new favorite band. And I'm not much of a Metalhead. More into Punk Rock and Hardcore, but this is something else. Absolutely outstanding!

[@frankdeleon4209]

Same here I listen to the likes of black dahlia all the way to la bouche and this is intense

[@subparhushpuppy9335]

Can really hear how they influence(d) Mastodon. Awesome all around!

[@bfortier5198]

incredible animation, awesome story , the band hopefully pay the animation teaM and still consider another video or 2. top 10 speed metal video as 2023

[@derrickharmon7980]

Matt understands 😢

[@anwonio]

Now that's a fucking metal music video

[@dukeXeus]

Роскошь!!!

[@RegurgitateEucharist]

these guys get it

[@skull8093]

Skinner and Beautiful Jerk did such righteous fury in this video, and it's blowing my mind.

[@rayromanski7875]

I would love to see a part two installment of this video holy moly. Gee whilickers, this video was the bee's knees.

[@jaded6262]

Been there , done that. 🤘

[@tylerm9509]

Five years later this is still my favorite music video.

[@HandsomeDynamite]

I've been waiting to see this my entire life.

[@PCGameGang]

BEHOLD... THE MOST BADASS MUSIC VIDEO OF ALL TIME!

[@brutalgrapes]

i just followed some breadcrumbs that led me here, and I'm not disappointed at all!!!!!

[@bigdaddypiggy]

I’ve been lucky enough to have seen almost every band I’ve wanted to see…Motorhead,the Ramones,Soundgarden (in the 90’s),Pantera with the brothers,Metallica when they still had long hair,Helmet,Slayer,BLS,Clutch,Pearl Jam in the 90’s,the Obsessed,Type O Negative in DC in 96 on Halloween,Tool,Down,etc but I have never seen High on Fire & damnit !! I’m gonna 😉🤘🏻🖤

[@DxAxMxD]

Man, Adventure Time got weird towards the end, didn't it?

[@AesopTwin]

These guys & Meshuggah are going to make for one sexy tour.

[@rhogerian2295]

Listened to this song a lot,finally bought the album and I love it

[@xXTheRealRobzillaXx]

Thank God this song helped me ignore some BS lesson on love.