Eyehategod
- DAY: 06.06
- STAGE: Desert Stage
- COUNTRY: USA
Heavy, heavier, heavier still, Eyehategod. These sludge pioneers from New Orleans play revolting, bog-sodden music. Crossbreed the most repugnant doom metal riffs with some blues and a dingy, bug-ridden basement and you’ll have Eyehategod’s sound. They’ve been doing their thing for years and they are yet to flounder.
History:
April 20, 1988 – on this day, Eyehategod began. They started by releasing two demos and in 1990, they debuted with the full-length In the Name of Suffering – a primitive album recorded on a thousand-dollar budget and heavily inspired by hardcore elements, which in time gained a cult status. Initially, the sales were so low that the band had to change their label (the French label, Intellectual Convulsion) for another one. They ended up at Century Media. Under their banner, the band released all of their subsequent albums, starting with their sophomore record, Take as Needed for Pain, a much heavier record which by design espoused a starkly different sound than the one on their debut album. Mike Williams, the frontman of the band, was homeless at the time. With records such as Dopesick and Confederacy of Ruined Lives, Eyehategod’s status grew – after the release of the latter record, the band went on a world tour, which included legs in Japan and Europe. The band spent the 2000s tending to other projects, only coming back in 2014 with a self-titled album. Seven years later, they released their latest to date album, A History of Nomadic Behavior.
Discography:
Full albums:
In the Name of Suffering, 1990
Take as Needed for Pain, 1993
Dopesick, 1996
Confederacy of Ruined Lives, 2000
Eyehategod, 2014
A History of Nomadic Behavior, 2021
EPs:
Ruptured Heart Theory, 1994
99 Miles of Bad Road, 2004
Demos:
Garden Dwarf Woman Driver, 1989
Lack of Almost Everything, 1989
Singles:
New Orleans Is the New Vietnam, 2012
The Liar’s Psalm, 2014
Gates of Steel, 2020
High Risk Trigger, 2020
Fake What’s Yours, 2021
Built Beneath the Lies, 2021
Circle of Nerves, 2021
Motörhead, 2022
Splits:
Whore / Untitled, 1994 (z 13)
Loud & Ugly Vol. 2, 1995 (z Floor, Despise You, Apartment 213i Thug)
Wrong / Southern Discomfort, 1995 (z 13)
In These Black Days: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (Vol. I), 1997 (z Anal Cunt)
Shattering the Barriers, 2000 (z Cryptopsy, Carnal Forge i Rotting Christ)
Eyehategod / Soilent Green, 2002 (z Soilent Green)
I Am the Gestapo / Self-Zeroing, 2004 (z Cripple Bastards)
New Release Highlights (Thrilling Albums Out On Century Media Records In May/Early June 2014), 2014 (z Crowbar, Massacra, Vallenfyre, Boris the Blade i Cherry Poppin’ Daddies)
Eyehategod / Psycho, 2015 (z Psycho)
Eyehategod / Bl’ast, 2016 (z Bl’ast)
Gates of Steel / New Life, 2020 (z Sheer Terror)
Compilations:
Southern Discomfort, 2000
10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke), 2001
Preaching the End-Time Message, 2005
