Bower returned to Crowbar for their 1998 album, Odd Fellows Rest, but left soon after to return to Eyehategod, who recorded several 7" singles on small independent labels. In 1996, Eyehategod reconvened (with Vince LeBlanc on bass) for the chaotic Dopesick however, the band fell largely silent for some time afterward.
After touring in support of the LP, the group went on an unofficial hiatus, with Bower joining Crowbar (as a drummer) and also playing in the Southern metal supergroup Down, Patton teaming up with Soilent Green, and Williams working as a writer for Metal Maniacs magazine. After the label dissolved, the band were approached by Century Media, which re-released In the Name of Suffering in 1992, followed by the more refined, though no less incendiary sophomore effort, 1993's Take as Needed for Pain, which was recorded with new bassist Mark Schultz. EHG issued their debut album, the raw and unrelenting In the Name of Suffering, in 1992 via the French label Intellectual Convulsion. The brainchild of guitarist Jimmy Bower and drummer Joe LaCaze, the group eventually grew into a quintet with the arrival of vocalist Michael Williams, lead guitarist Brian Patton, and bassist Steve Dale. Since debuting in 1990 with In the Name of Suffering, the band have amassed a loyal following with potent and disorienting efforts like Take as Needed for Pain (1993), Confederacy of Ruined Lives (2000), and A History of Nomadic Behavior (2021).įormed in New Orleans in 1988, Eyehategod quickly ascended to the top tier of a Southern sludgecore scene that included bands like Crowbar and Down, all of whom were heavily influenced by Black Sabbath, Black Flag, and the Melvins. This is disorienting, uneasy listening.An influential New Orleans sludge metal outfit, Eyehategod emerged in the early 1990s with an ugly and uncompromising blend of doomy, bluesy punk, and misanthropic metal that quickly pushed them to the fore of the fertile NOLA metal scene. From the bitter pill of opener “Built Beneath the Lies” to the hypnotic haze of closer “Every Thing, Every Day” it’s clear that that EYEHATEGOD hasn’t slowed or mellowed with time. “A History of Nomadic Behavior” finds the band, now slimmed to a four-piece rounded out by bassist Gary Mader and drummer Aaron Hill, leaner and meaner than ever road-hardened by recent tours with Black Label Society, Corrosion of Conformity and Napalm Death in the US and abroad.
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With a discography including sludge-punk mainstays like “In the Name of Suffering” (1990), “Take as Needed for Pain” (1993) “Dopesick” (1996) or 2014’s eponymously-titled LP, released in the US through Housecore Records, EHG laid the cracked foundation for their infamous and influential sound. That’s been the blueprint since guitarist Jimmy Bower (also of NOLA supergroup, Down) founded the band in 1988 with vocalist Mike IX Williams joining not long after.
Anyone familiar with EHG’s story knows this is survivor’s music, a sound unto itself where Sabbathian riffs are meted out with a caustic anger that goes beyond punk. That’s the sense of disenchantment and disease that lies the heart of their latest and sixth full-length album, “A History of Nomadic Behavior”.
Since 1988, they’ve been a soundtrack for the troubled masses.
New Orleans’ EYEHATEGOD is the snarling, bilious sound of dead-end America.
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