Billy did most of the production on the record actually, and we are really happy with the way it turned out.” Eyehategod hooked up with Anderson while touring with Buzzoven. “Pepper is also a hometown boy, and he was in the Down project with Jimmy, so he just came down to the studio and helped us with some sounds and stuff. Bungle) and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist Pepper Keenan producing. So we really had to wait for him to get back before doing anything else.”ĭopesick was recorded in New Orleans with Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis, Mr. Then when we got back from the tour, Jimmy joined up with Crowbar and they went out on tour. “We just went on tour for so long for the last record, that it ended up being well over a year we were out on the road. “I think the label has kind of sent out this message to everybody that it took so long between records, but that was not really the case at all,” says Patton. Taking some time out from a late night practice session with his other band, Soilent Green, Eyehategod’s lead guitarist Brian Patton spoke about the time between records, the newly released Dopesick, and about what the future holds for Eyehategod. By taking one part Swans, and mixing it up with one part Black Sabbath, one part Black Flag, and a whole fistful of Cajun spice, the band has created a musical gumbo never heard before by most unassuming ears. With their newest album, Dopesick, Eyehategod has marked out its territory as one of North America’s premiere noise-influenced metal bands. On their previous two albums, In The Name Of Suffering (1992) and Take As Needed For Pain (1993), the framework was created for one of the most interesting, yet disturbing, bands around. New Orleans instead seems one of the last bastions of freedom within the continental U.S.Įyehategod is the band most likely to change these sorts of opinions. Rarely is the city thought of as a dark, foreboding place these adjectives are usually reserved for bigger metropolitan centers such as New York or Los Angeles. When the city of New Orleans is brought up in conversation, usually thoughts of the city’s rich musical history in jazz and Cajun folk music are prominent. I did this interview with EHG guitarist Brian Patton upon the release of Dopesick, which I still think is one of their best releases ever. “…True musical pioneers in every sense of the word.I originally wrote this interview for Canada’s EXCLAIM! in June, 1996 but they no longer archive back that far on their website, so I thought I’d make it available here again. “This a band built on a narrative about doing the opposite of what it thought people wanted: playing slow and messy music in a fast and virtuosic time, the 1980s speed-metal moment.” – NY TIMES “The quintessential Southern sludge band” – PITCHFORK From the bitter pill of opener “Built Beneath the Lies” to the hypnotic haze of closer “Every Thing, Every Day” it’s clear 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. 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 Michael 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 caustic anger that goes beyond punk. That’s the sense of disenchantment and disease that lies at 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. Heroes Live Entertainment presents EYEHATEGOD with Ether Coven and Seven Serpents Respectable Street in West Palm Beach.
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