Be merry, here's more Eyehategod! Tonight's menu is served in three courses: 1) Four tracks from the 1990-demo "Lack of almost everything". These are noisy and full of feedback, a great appetizer! 2) Four songs on a live radio broadcast from 1994. 3) And seven brain-damaging songs from their European tour in 2000. I'll tell you once again, this is harsh, gritty and relentless music, no easy listening. For more info on the tracklist, check here.
This album includes several rare and live recordings, as well as three brand-new tracks from 2005! So let's start off with a fair warning: the quality of the songs varies from track to track. Some songs work like a charm while some are more suited for the EHG completist. Because of the wide variety of material on this compilation (spanning over 10 years), the album may come off as chaotic and unorganized, hence I only recommend it to fanatics and completionists of the group. More info here.
"Southern discomfort" gathers together tracks from three hard-to-find 7" releases, plus a few tracks which were recorded during the '95 "Dopesick"-sessions. The title track is featured on "Confederacy of ruined lives" as a reworked version titled "Jack ass in the name of God". Amongst my favourite songs are "Story of the eye" and "Serving time in the middle of nowhere", two tracks which ironically don't appear on any of their studio albums. The big mammoth, the 16-minute "Dopesick jam", closes the album in a gigantic medley consisting of songs throughout the bands history. Read more about this album here.
The pain of a heroin addict in musical form. These 12 bleak and heavy songs are in my opinion the best material these Lousiana sludgers ever caught on tape. If you want groovy music and raw emotion that's almost on the verge of collapse, do yourself a favour and grab this. For more album info, click here. Oh yeah, I seriously think there's a fight that abruptly ends the song on "Anxiety hangover", haha!
Is it just me, or is "Take as needed for pain" one of the best album titles .. ever? To continue our series of fucked up feedback, sludge metal and drug abuse, I give you the second full length by Eyehategod. This is drugged up and alcohol soaked sludge metal straight from New Orleans, you'd better submit to these 12 songs clocking in at 50 minutes. For more info, click here.
This album is digusting. It is dark and hateful. It is angry. And these are good things.
