Description
As a band that helped create a genre as well as equate a city with a sound, EYEHATEGOD have always remained humble anytime words like “legend” were thrown around to describe them. The thing with legends is that they grow stronger in time and over the years; word of mouth has been kind to the band. New Orleans’ EYEHATEGOD is bigger now than they ever have been in their 25 plus years as a band. Pretty impressive seeing as they haven’t released a full length album in almost 15 years. Most people who know the band have a story to tell or they heard a story about the guys. Whether it was them playing nothing but feedback to a bewildered White Zombie crowd during their opening stint for the arena metal band in the mid-nineties, being banned from a certain venue for attacking a promoter with a barstool or cleaning out entire small towns of their drug supply, these stories spread throughout the metal community over the years, usually through a game of one up-manship, establishing them as one of the most notorious bands around.
Certainly not the first band to be surrounded by myth and lore, EYEHATEGOD’s staying and growing power ultimately comes from the music. No one riffs like Jimmy Bower and Brian Patton. Drummer Joey LaCaze grooved and held it together with numerous bass players throughout the years, doing so impeccably with Gary Mader over the past decade. Singer Mike IX Williams has always been able to encapsulate the ruins of life through his lyrics and vocal delivery. All combined, the music is the most genuine, distressing cacophony of sound around.
Black Sabbath mixed with Black Flag with a little bit of Skynyrd & the element of Blues thrown in there, Bower once said of the band’s sound. In 2014 that style might sound somewhat commonplace. In 1988 it most definitely was not. The band’s second album, 1993’s Take as Needed for Pain is the pinnacle album that other bands of this genre try and reach. Today, EYEHATEGOD sounds as fresh and innovative as ever. When the band released its first new track in over a decade, New Orleans Is The New Vietnam, it was clear that nothing about the band had changed. The band was touring more than they ever had and used the time and energy together to work on an album’s worth of songs. At the end of 2012 they were ready.
- Exclusive distributors’ edition pressed on bone vinyl
- 180gr. heavy-weight vinyl
- Extra-thick deluxe Gatefold jacket printed on 425gsm craft Crownboard
- Two-sided insert printed on 200gsm art paper
