EyeHateGod

This article covers the sludge band. For the band's self-titled album, see EyeHateGod (album) .

EyeHateGod
The name of the band used since 1988
Mike Williams and Jimmy Bower with EyeHateGod at Hellfest 2018
General information
origin	New Orleans , United States
Genre (s)	Sludge
founding	1988, 2000, 2001
resolution	1998, 2001
Website	eyehategod.ee
Founding members
guitar	Jimmy Bower
Drums	Joe Fazzio
singing	Chris Hillard
bass	Kevin Noonan
guitar	Marc Schultz
Current occupation
singing	Mike Williams
guitar	Jimmy Bower
bass	Gary Mader
Drums	Aaron Hill (since 2013)
former members
bass	Steve Dale (1989-1992)
Guitar, bass	Marc Schultz (1988–1995)
bass	Vince LeBlanc (1995-1997)
bass	Danny Nick (2000-2002)
Drums	Joey LaCaze † (1989-2013)
bass	Kevin Bond (1988)
singing	Chris Hilliard (1988)
Drums	Joey Delatte (1988)
Drums	Joe Fazzio (1988)
guitar	Brian Patton (1993-2018)
Live and session members
Drums	Dale Crover (2013)
bass	Kevin Bond
bass	Paul Webb
Guitar, vocals	Phil Anselmo
singing	Seth Putnam
singing	Randy Blythe

EyeHateGod [ aɪ heɪt gɑd ] is a sludge band founded in New Orleans in 1988 .

The group's influence on other musicians is great compared to their own commercial success. In addition to the internationally popular Crowbar or Down , the band is considered a major player in the metal scene in New Orleans, despite their lower international success . EyeHateGod's music combines influences from Hardcore Punk , Industrial and Doom Metal . EyeHateGod is characterized by the frequent use of feedback from the guitars and the incomprehensible throaty screaming singing of Mike Williams . The band's artistic concept is based on punk and industrial. With their mix of styles, the band is considered the founder of sludge. Due to the reception of their second studio album Take as Needed for Pain , the group is also considered to be the one for which the style name Sludge was devised.

The reception of the band's work was closely linked to the drug abuse of the band members. The events around Hurricane Katrina are considered a turning point in the history of the band. The consequences of the hurricane had a special effect on the lives of the band members. Among other things, the drug withdrawal of the singer Williams was interrupted, after which he violated his probation conditions and was imprisoned.

history

Intellectual convulsion

In the first year of the band, EyeHateGod was seen by the constantly changing members as a loose, informal association of various musicians who jammed together as a group for an indefinite period of time . It was only through the efforts of guitarist Jimmy Bower that a consistent band constellation formed between 1988 and 1989. His first band members were Mark Schulz as guitarist, Chris Hillard as singer, Kevin Noonan as bassist and Joe Fazzio as drummer. After a few months of activity, Hillard, Noonan and Fazzio split from the band and were replaced by Joey LaCaze , Mike Williams and Steve Dale. In this first stable constellation, the band appeared in the Storyville Jazz Hall in New Orleans for the first time. EyeHateGod played this first concert on June 30, 1989 with Soilent Green in the opening act for Exhorder . The EyeHateGod appearance was poorly received by viewers and ended with Williams berating the audience. In the same year EyeHateGod recorded the two demo tapes Garden Dwarf Woman Driver and Lack of Almost Everything , distributed them privately and sent them to various record companies. The French independent label Intellectual Convulsion responded and signed the band for an album. The debut In the Name of Suffering was produced in a small studio in Kenner , Louisiana , with no producers or professional sound engineers , with the staff of the studio. Intellectual Convulsion provided the band with a sum of $ 1,000. The band paid for the studio and the sound engineers with $ 800. With the remaining $ 200, EyeHateGod bought alcohol and marijuana . In 1990 the label released around 1500 to 2000 copies of the band debut, which was recorded without professional help due to the small advance payment on incomplete and partly defective instruments. In 1992, Intellectual Convulsion went bankrupt.

Century Media

Jimmy Bower, here at Hellfest 2018, founded EyeHateGod in the late 1980s

EyeHateGod, however, was signed to Century Media for six albums in the same year . Century Media re-released In the Name of Suffering on December 1, 1992 and financed the subsequent Take as Needed for Pain with which EyeHateGod became known and influenced many subsequent bands. With the label, on the other hand, due to the lack of marketing opportunities and the low commercial success of extreme music, there was an ongoing conflict, which ultimately led to EyeHateGod already having to record their third studio album Dopesick without any financial support from the production company. An incident occurred during the recording of Dopesick , which was glorified in press and fan circles through to self-mutilation and satanic rituals . Jimmy Bower, however, describes the incident as less controversial:

“We wanted to use the effect of glass shattering in the background on some of the songs. Mike sang the vocals in a darkened room, throwing empty bottles around. At some point he stopped singing, he had cut his hand and was bleeding like a pig. Suddenly he started to smear things like 'Pig' and 'Satan' on the walls with his blood. But Billie Anderson (including Neurosis ), who, as an old friend, produced for free, didn't find it funny at all and broke up the happy group. When we got to the studio the next morning, a cleaning service had already removed everything. So no big deal. "

- Jimmy Bower in an intro interview

In 1998, EyeHateGod separated after singer Mike Williams had to interrupt an ongoing tour due to health and personal problems, which were primarily caused by his drug addiction. Williams later explained that the main purpose of the separation was to regulate these difficulties. In 1999 the band decided to tour Europe again and record another studio album. After the band announced their reunion, Century Media released the compilation Southern Discomfort in January 2000, with unfinished studio recordings and various contributions from EPs and compilations without the band's consent. Jimmy Bower explained the publication of the compilation in an interview with the online magazine Lärmbelästigung.net as "a sign of life that [the band] is back before 'Confederacy ...' came out."

EyeHateGod released their last full studio album for the time being with Confederacy of Ruined Lives in 2000. In 2001 the band separated from their bassist Danny Nick and instead took Gary Mader into the band, who was already taken on a Japan tour after two concerts around New Orleans. With the only live album 10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke) , which was released on May 29, 2001, EyeHateGod fulfilled their contract with Century Media .

Hurricane Katrina

On May 27, 2005, the band released a collection of rarities via Emetic Records under the title Preaching the "End-Time" Message with three demo versions of new tracks and toured America until July 2005. Brian Patton then went on tour with Soilent Green . Jimmy Bower had planned to work on new material with Down and met band members Pepper Keenan , Kirk Windstein and Phil Anselmo in August . However, Bower also announced songwriting activities for and with EyeHateGod.

That flooded New Orleans

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The effects on the city and its residents were devastating. The hurricane led to personal catastrophes for some band members, which were often discussed in the reception of the band.

Guitarist Brian Patton was on tour with his band Soilent Green at the time, which is why he was personally spared from the disaster. Nevertheless, he emphasized in an interview with Metal Center that everyone in New Orleans would have lost a lot. Former Soilent Green singer and long-time friend, Glenn Rambo, fell victim to the hurricane and its aftermath.

Bassist Gary Mader and his wife, who were living on Canal Street at the time of the hurricane, fled the city with financial support from journalist Andy Capper. In December 2005, Mader stated that most of his home had been destroyed. In March 2006, he reported that he had been forced to rely on friends and relatives to help him for five months without a permanent residence.

Before the hurricane hit, guitarist Jimmy Bower fled with his mother to Lake Charles in the care of relatives. Bower's family offered Pepper Keenan the opportunity to camp on the family's property in a motor home . Bower later stated that his mother's home suffered some storm damage. In an initial interview with the web administrator of Phil Anselmo's website, shortly after the hurricane, Bower asked for information about the whereabouts and condition of Mike Williams.

At the same time, singer Mike Williams and his then-girlfriend Alicia Stillman, singer of Sludge Band 13, were unable to leave town, which is why both of them, for Williams, who was in a methadone program, took the drug with the approval of a police officer from a drug store stolen and drove to Morgan City . Williams and Stilman stayed at a motel in Morgan City. The owner of the motel informed the local police and they were arrested for drug trafficking. While Stilman was not imprisoned, Williams was imprisoned without adequate medical care. In December 2005, Bower expressed his dismay and anger at the situation and announced that he would process the events in a new album, compared New Orleans to a third world region and verbally attacked local and national politicians.

Phil Anselmo (formerly Pantera), here at Hellfest 2009, bore the bail for Williams and took him in

Williams underwent cold withdrawal while in custody. Musicians, friends and fans of the band meanwhile initiated the Free Mike IX campaign to exert public pressure and expedite Williams' release from prison. The campaign included T-shirts, web banners and calls in interviews and on websites. After Phil Anselmo, who took part in the campaign, bailed out $ 150,000, Mike Williams was released on December 2, 2005 after 91 days in prison. Anselmo then took Williams, who was homeless and destitute after imprisonment, in his guest house. Anselmo offered Williams work for his label Housecore Records and founded the crustcore band Arson Anthem with him . Until then, Williams lived in Anselmo's guest house.

As a result of the events, Brian Patton, Jimmy Bower and Phil Anselmo also opted for withdrawal. Patton and Bower explained that the hurricane in particular changed the way people perceive their own way of life. Williams as well as Bower and Patton explained that their abstinence was limited to drugs that would lead to physical dependence.

In June 2006, Williams was sentenced to five years probation due to the incident and had to undergo regular drug tests during the period of probation. As a further punishment, he was expelled from the city of New Orleans for life. Regarding this punishment, Williams said that he would not be wanted by the police in the city and that he could be there, but that he could appear publicly to a limited extent. Despite these conditions, in 2009 he summarized the significance of the events as formative and solidarizing, especially with regard to the music scene.

The restaurant Juan's Flying Burrito in September 2005, where EyeHateGod gave their first concert after Katrina in December 2005.

On 10 December 2005, the band whose members were all returned to the widely destroyed New Orleans came in which had fallen into disrepair by Hurricane Club Juan's Flying Burrito , New Orleans, and on 18 February 2006 at the first Mardi Gras Festival at Checkpoint Charly by the hurricane. Brian Patton commented on the appearance at Mardi Gras on the same day as an expression of a lifestyle.

In response to the effects of the hurricane on EyeHateGod members, Emetic Records released the double tribute album For the Sick on March 20, 2007 with a variety of bands from the American metal and hardcore underground. Among other things involved Brutal Truth , which reunited for their contribution, Mouth of the Architect , Kylesa , Minsk and Unearthly Trance to support the concerns of the musicians of Eyehategod. Also to support the band members, Century Media released the band's first three albums again in 2006 and 2007 and added bonus tracks such as demo or live recordings that had previously appeared on compilations and EPs. With the re-releases of the old albums, Century Media contributed to the success and awareness of the band and financially supported the members in the crisis after Katrina. Williams honored this help in an interview and highlighted a change in company policy. While the label used to "just want to make money out of the bands" in his opinion, it seemed to him "as if there were [now] more fans working there". The aftermath of the hurricane affected the writing process in the following years. The homelessness and lack of means influenced the lives of the musicians. Many of the band members were long-term busy restoring everyday order in their lives after the hurricane.

Concentration on side projects

Down 2009 live in Prague

The members of EyeHateGod are already active in various projects before the hurricane. Down are due to the former Pantera singer Phil Anselmo and the 1995 US platinum album NOLA, the most successful formation with the participation of EHG member and Down drummer Jimmy Bower. After Katrina, it was this band that released new material as the first "side project". The album NOLA III: Over the Under was released on September 24, 2007 after the band had already toured Europe in 2006 and reached top 100 placements in Germany, Great Britain and the USA. The release marked a turning point in the history of EyeHateGod, since Jimmy Bower named Down as the main band from then on.

In response, the remaining EHG members devoted themselves to their previous side projects and main professions, such as Gary Mader and Joe LaCaze, who did not work full-time as musicians. Nevertheless, Mader and LaCaze released together with Williams and Patton on November 10, 2008 the debut album of the long-term side project of the EHG members without Jimmy Bower Outlaw Order under the title Dragging Down the Enforcer . Phil Anselmo, who continued to host Mike Williams, founded with him, Hank Williams III and Collin Yeo the crustcore band Arson Anthem , whose first self-titled EP was released on February 19, 2008. Brian Patton published Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction with Soilent Green on April 15, 2008 . Other projects such as Corrections House with Mike Williams, Sanford Parker and Scott Kelly followed in the following years.

Williams pointed out in 2010 that writing new pieces of music, owed by the changes in the years after Katrina and the new circumstances and priorities of the individual band members, takes more time than previous releases. Members of the band had come into conflict with the law and the aftermath of Katrina would affect the writing process, as would Jimmy Bower's weighting on Down.

Return to gigs, tours and publications

EyeHateGod celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band at One Eyed Jacks

After Katrina, EyeHateGod only gave a few concerts in New Orleans and Louisiana, as all band members were active in other bands or involved in personal matters. In 2008 Williams explained that in addition to the band activities of Brian Patton and Jimmy Bower, the other bandmates were in personal difficulties, which made it difficult to produce an album quickly. Bassist Gary Mader was awaiting trial, drummer Joey LaCaze was on rehab and singer Mike Williams was serving another two months in prison for a previous parole violation. One of the concerts that took place at that time was the 20-year-old EyeHateGod show at One Eyed Jacks in New Orleans on August 29, 2008. In June 2009, the band appeared on the international stage for the first time after Katrina at the French festival Hellfest in Clisson . In the fall of 2009 EyeHateGod resumed their tour activity and thus the band activity with a small tour through the American southern states. In the following years tours through Europe, America and, for the first time, Australia followed. Among these performances took at prestigious festivals such as the Inferno in Oslo in 2010, the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg in 2010 and the Roskilde Festival in Denmark on July 1, 2011 on which the band for the first time the new title New Orleans is the New Vietnam present . EHG accompanied some of the tours and concerts with a camera and compiled them into a live document. On March 22, 2011 the DVD was released on MVD with the simple title Live . On August 30, 2012, EyeHateGod released the one-sided 7 "vinyl single New Orleans is the New Vietnam via A389 Recordings as an accompaniment to the upcoming European tour, which was completed under the title Europe is the New Vietnam .

The Death of LaCaze, new album release

Joey LaCaze in the background during the 2011 Roskilde Festival

After the band had taken a short break, but had given isolated concerts in the greater Louisiana area, EyeHateGod went on a European tour from July 19 to August 20, 2013. Back in New Orleans, Joey LaCaze died of respiratory failure in his home on August 23, 2013, at the age of 42. The drummer had suffered from severe asthma since his youth. Williams also reported on his sleep apnea syndrome with massive pauses in breathing during the European tour. EyeHateGod went public a few days after the death of the band member and announced the cause of death and the opening of a donation account for LaCaze daughter on the band's homepage.

EyeHateGod, who wanted to celebrate their 25th band anniversary with concerts and festival appearances in fall 2013, invited drummer Dale Crover from The Melvins to a big show at the Housecore Horror Fest in Austin on October 27, 2013 and said half of the planned concerts from. Williams described it as a tribute to LaCaze to play with the drummer he admired.

Despite the loss of an early childhood friend and one of the early band members, the breakup of the band wasn't an issue for the rest of EyeHateGod, as Bower and Williams pointed out. Bower was certain that LaCaze would never have wanted the band to break up; he even talked to him about it.

“[T] he asked me something like 'Who would you get to replace me?' something like that, we were just honest with each other. He knew the band would pass it on, and he wanted to. For me it's part of our life; it's just the way things happen, what cards you get, how life treats you. We don't know how to give up. That's the story of our entire career, our life, even without the band. We just don't know when to stop. It's just about going further. "

- Mike Williams

After the death of Joey LaCaze and the cancellation of some concerts in autumn 2013, EyeHateGod tried to find a new drummer during this period. Despite requests from some popular musicians, EyeHateGod chose the unknown local musician Aaron Hill after the first auditions, without inviting the remaining musicians to audition and talk. The decision was made in particular because of Hills' local roots in New Orleans. Hill previously played various instruments in small bands of the metal and punk scene in New Orleans, in particular he played guitar in the crustcore band Gas Miasma with Patrick Bruders from Down and Crowbar. In addition to the technical question of the way of playing, the question was also in the foreground whether and how the 29-year-old Aaron Hill could find his way into the social structure of the band and participate in future songwriting. According to Williams, Hill is “a madman, just like” the rest of the band and “fits great” into the band. The band went to the rehearsal room with the new member and practiced a variety of EyeHateGod pieces with Aaron Hill and played new concerts and tours.

From November 2013 to January 2014 EyeHateGod toured America with Aaron Hill. A new tour through Australia was originally planned for January 2014, but this failed due to an alleged mistake by the artist agent . It was only at the airport that the band found out that the Australian agency Heathen Skulls had not booked any flight tickets and EyeHateGod could not travel to Australia. A quick rebooking from own financial means was not possible due to the limited time and at the same time high security regulations of the American airports. To compensate, the band booked a few more concerts in America.

In May 2014, after a 14-year album break and two years of recording, the band's fifth studio album was released. The self-titled album EyeHateGod contains the classic, attributed to the band mix of early Black Sabbath and late Black Flag with southern rock elements. The production is, referred to as raw, kept simple and puts the riffing in the foreground. The album is the last release of the band Joey LaCaze contributed to and the first album to reach a chart. EyeHateGod reached number 92 on the American Billboard charts for one week. The album was dedicated to LaCaze. The publication was largely positively received and described as a consistent continuation of the previous work of EyeHateGod. With the music video for Medicine Noose , the band's first official music video was released in June 2014.

Williams' health difficulties

Randy Blythe, here with Lamb of God, helped out as a singer in 2016

In December 2014, Williams was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver with a fatal prognosis while on tour with Corrections House . After returning home, Williams contacted various doctors and focused on changing his lifestyle so far. As a result, EyeHateGod canceled a tour of Australia in early 2015 due to Williams' health condition. The band kept information about Williams' condition and illness secret. Later in the same year scheduled concerts and festival appearances in Europe and America took place after Williams was able to stabilize his condition with medical assistance. On April 10, 2015, Century Media released the Original Album Collection box , which contained the revised versions of the first three albums published in 2006 and 2007, as well as Confederacy of Ruined Lives in cardboard slip-cases with a combined booklet.

After a US tour with Discharge in April 2016, the band officially canceled a European tour planned for July and August 2016 due to "personal problems and scheduling difficulties". Phil Anselmo appeared as a guest singer at two concerts in August. The August 10 performance in New Orleans was documented by a camera team. A two-week US tour with Discharge and Toxic Holocaust took place in the fall of 2016 with Randy Blythe from Lamb of God as singer, as Mike Williams was unable to complete the concert series due to health problems that were not specified for the time being. Blythe and Anselmo emphasized that they only saw themselves as tour aides until Williams recovered. Williams later explained that the use of the substitute singers and their selection can be traced back to his initiative. He endeavored to keep the band active without interruption and to keep the commitments made in advance.

Williams' wife Michelle Maher-Williams announced in November 2016 that Williams suffered a collapse in his hotel room during a US tour and had to be stabilized again. After Williams liver and kidneys failed in October 2016 and the singer was dependent on a liver transplant after a medical assessment, Maher-Williams sought the public to generate the financial means via a crowdfunding campaign. In December of the same year, Crowbar, Goatwhore and EyeHateGod, along with a large number of other performers, announced a three-day charity festival for Williams under the title IX Lives for February 2017 at two locations in New Orleans. The proceeds of approximately $ 20,000 were donated to Williams to cover part of the costs of his operation.

Williams' return to the stage with EyeHateGod took place at Berserker Fest in Pontiac , Michigan on April 15, 2017, as the start of a small tour of America. In June 2017 the group announced they are working on another studio album.

Patton's exit and consequences

The ongoing writing and production process for the album following EyeHateGod has been accompanied by tours in the United States, Canada and Europe. In the course of 2018, still in the touring and production process, Patton left the band to spend more time with his family. Williams described the change to four band members as a permanent change and the beginning of a new era in the history of the band. In the wake of the announcement, Williams assured that four of them would finish the announced album for 2019. Patton supported the band despite his exit while Bower underwent an operation on his right arm and then had to recover from the operation for the 2019 tour.

Cast overview

Work and effect

Discography

Studio albums 1990: In the Name of Suffering 1993: Take as Needed for Pain 1996: Dopesick 2000: Confederacy of Ruined Lives 2014: EyeHateGod Singles 1994: Ruptured Heart Theory 2004: 99 Miles of Bad Road 2012: New Orleans is the New Vietnam 2014: The Liar's Psalm Split releases 1994: EyeHateGod / 13 I (At 13) 1995: EyeHateGod / 13 II (At 13) 1997: In these Black Days Vol.1 (With Anal Cunt ) 2002: The Age of Bootcamp (With Soilent Green ) 2004: I Am the Gestapo (With Cripple Bastards ) 2015: Eyehategod / Psycho (With Psycho ) 2016: Eyehategod / Bl'ast (With Bl'ast ) Demos 1988: Garden Dwarf Woman Driver 1990: Lack of Almost Everything Live albums 2001: 10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke) Compilations 2000: Southern Discomfort 2005: Preaching the “End-Time” Message 2015: Original Album Collection DVDs 2004: Live in Tokyo 2011: Live

Musical meaning

Since their debut, the band has been an important influence on the emergence and establishment of the then unnamed sludge genre and the metal scene of New Orleans. After Garry Sharpe-Young , EyeHateGod is one of the few bands that can boast of having largely defined a genre alone. Robert Müller from Metal Hammer sees EyeHateGod, next to Crowbar , as the founders of the genre. Mike Williams explained that the term sludge was first used for the album Take as Needed for Pain . He complained about this classification, like every other genre classification, as simplifying and labeling.

The group is considered by critics to be a central inspiration for upcoming sludge bands. And many bands from the genres Sludge, Post-Metal and Death Doom called EyeHateGod an important inspiration. Pelican called EyeHateGod "a longtime inspiration", Ganon called its origin a bad EyeHateGod copy, and the bands and projects involved in the tribute album For the Sick Unearthly Trance , Alabama Thunderpussy , Kylesa , Brutal Truth , Raging Speedhorn , Kill the Client and Mouth of the Architect call themselves friends and fans of the band. Other well-known sludge bands such as Buzzov • en , Iron Monkey and Grief called Take as Needed for Pain as “Revelation” or “Bible”, which had a significant impact on their style. Former EyeHateGod bassist Marc Schultz added that at the time of the album, every band from New Orleans was influenced by the band and the album.

Stylistic classification

According to Williams, the work is often perceived at reception as "too much metal for punk fans and too much punk for metal fans". He said that he has felt more of the punk than the metal scene since his youth. It is also pointed out that EyeHateGod is characterized by "its unique sound".

The band's music is described as a mixture of early Black Sabbath and late Black Flag with southern rock elements. In particular, the Black Flag album My War and the first four albums by Black Sabbath are often referred to in reviews and style descriptions. Williams explained that this description also corresponds to the influences of the band, but also influenced other interpreters of industrial , doom metal and the blues EyeHateGod.

"The often mentioned Flag / Sabbath mix plus a ton of different inspirations: Lynyrd Skynyrd , Carnivore , Melvins , St.Vitus , Laughing Hyenas , SPK , Throbbing Gristle , Whitehouse , David Allan Coe , Righteous Pigs , Mississippi John Hurt , Bukka White , Germs , Cockney Rejects , Trouble , Witchfinder General and so on. "

- Mike Williams

Already on the debut album from 1990, In the Name of Suffering , all elements typical for the style and the band were included; a raw mixture of doom metal and hardcore punk with influences from blues and stoner rock , occasionally interrupted by outbursts of industrial and noise , which is always accompanied by Michael Williams' throaty croaking screeching and roaring vocals . The term sludge, coined for Take as Needed for Pain , is often used as a stylistic term, which the band rejects as inadequate and incomprehensible. Williams describes the style as a modern blues variant and in this context coined different style descriptions such as "Hardcore Drug Blues", "Modern Drug Addled and Alcohol Drenched MF'in 'Blues", "Southern Hardcore Blues" or "Down To Earth Motherfucking Post-Amplification Blues" ". William York from Allmusic calls the band's style coarse and aggressive, at the same time sluggish and raw and a mixture of Doom Metal and Hardcore Punk with slow guitars, incomprehensible vocals and constant feedback.

Mike Willams' idiosyncratic singing, here at the Roskilde Festival, is considered a hallmark of the band

The recurring feedback from the guitars, Williams' throaty vocals, a rough production, catchy bass runs and film samples are emphasized by various reviewers on almost all albums as characteristic features of the band. Only the Confederacy of Ruined Lives produced by Dave Fortman was perceived differently and described as "smoother", "cleaner" and "less oppressive". Style elements of the band, especially the feedback, were initially rejected. Williams described it as "impossible to explain to people that [they] wanted the feedback, that they were part of the songs."

reception

According to Vampster's Captain Chaos, EyeHateGod are "gross, tough to punk and distorted." In the music magazine Intro , the sound of EyeHateGod is described as a chaotic mishmash of Black Sabbath and a crusty atmosphere. Thom Jurek describes the band's sound using the example of Preaching the “End-Time” message as “massive, perverse, pissed off and full of low-frequency distortion and pain.” Arne Ebner calls the group's music “raw and aggressive, broken, dragging and for the inexperienced listener, at first glance it is certainly appalling. "

Williams' hoarse and roaring singing is perceived as aggressive in reviews and is compared by various reviewers with the "screams of a tormented larynx " and referred to as "unidentifiable angry excitement" and "atrocities turned into pathological sound". This characteristic song is sometimes attributed to Williams' asthma , which has accompanied him since early childhood.

William York points out that the titles can hardly be distinguished from one another. The supposed consonance of the pieces is also highlighted on the DeadTide.com page . The warned monotony is seen as a point of criticism by some recipients, while elsewhere the importance of the band in the genre is emphasized on the basis of the monotony. Sammy O'Hagar describes the "ugly" and "painful" monotony as the embodiment of a basic idea of ​​sludge, which in his opinion is disregarded by many representatives of the genre.

Do-It-Yourself Ethos

Gary Mader, EyeHateGod bassist and director of Take As Needed LLC , live at Hellfest 2018.

After the contractual controversies about the production of the album Dopesick , Jimmy Bower expressed the wish to be released from the existing contract with Century Media, based on the example of Minor Threat , to continue with the activities of the band in complete independence. This includes the design and production of merchandising articles as well as the distribution of the self-produced sound carriers. According to Bower, the guiding principle behind these efforts is "[t] total control over all [...] products" in order to create a "world of their own".

After the band had fulfilled their contract in 2000, they split from Century Media. From then on, EyeHateGod implemented do-it-yourself ideas as much as possible. Williams emphasized, however, that the band could not act completely independently and was dependent on professional help. The band started early to plan and organize tours independently. EyeHateGod, however, rely on people trained in the business, who are supposed to keep the organizational overview for the band members.

From the songwriting to the design and production to the tours, the publications, tours and merchandising items that followed after 2000 were developed independently without the advance payment of a record company. The band members prided themselves on trying to act independently in as many areas as possible and keep the profit. The independence from a company guaranteed the band absolute artistic freedom. In order to be able to act as the rights holder, EyeHateGod founded the company Take as Needed LLC in 2010 , whose employees represent the members of the band and whose bassist Gary Mader is registered as its director.

Songwriting

New pieces by the band are usually worked out jointly by several musicians. Each of the musicians gets involved and presents the fellow musicians with their own ideas, which the other musicians help to implement. In some cases, however, the musicians act in jam sessions . As largely independent of the mainly collaborative process of writing music, Mike Williams writes the lyrics alone, but exchanges ideas with the musicians and is inspired by the music. The main lyrical themes are drug and violence experiences as well as depression and vulnerability . His writing style, like his graphic style, is influenced by the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs . With this method, Williams would like to achieve that his texts appear incomprehensible, cryptic and irritating. In addition, he admits that he can occasionally adapt the lyrics to the rhythm and flow of the music while still in the studio.

Design concept

Much of the band's artwork is based on older bondage and pornography images

The underlying artistic concept of the band goes back to Mike Williams. The cut-and-paste aesthetic that Williams prefers can be found in all publications and goes back to SPK and Discharge , according to Williams . The collage technique with black and white photographs was mainly borrowed from Discharge, which, however, worked with images of war. The medical image selection, however, was borrowed from SPK. Joey LaCaze added that the often used pictures of skin diseases can be traced back to his mother, who worked for a dermatologist and owned several medical books, which, according to LaCaze, was the reason for LaCaze and Williams' interest in these pictures. In addition to medical photographs, EyeHateGod use pornographic photographs from the 1970s, in particular of the BDSM scene, as well as occult symbols and images of weapons for the graphic design of their sound carriers. The pictures are processed into collages in the supplements. As a further component, which according to Williams should irritate consumers, the band uses the same collage technique to add text passages to the songs without naming their titles and mixes them with newspaper quotations. After his admission to the band, Gary Mader was given the task of artistic design due to his computer skills. Nevertheless, Williams continued to contribute to the conception of the design.

“I started to look after the artistic aspects of the band around 1987 and 1988 and got involved with such great bands as DISCHARGE or industrial projects like SPK and their completely black and white visual art as well as the cut-and-paste aesthetic influenced by Burroughs . The sloppiness of punk rock plus religion, bondage , human suffering, skin diseases, weapons and so on seemed to fit perfectly with our musical morbidity. "

- Mike Williams

Arne Eber attributes the collage technique to an illustration of the do-it-yourself concept. The chosen motifs and symbols as well as the rough execution of the design should provoke emotional reactions and create an atmosphere that supports the music. Allusions to oppression, drug abuse and the supernatural are an integral part of the design concept.

Band name

The name EyeHateGod ( English for "eye hatred God") is often traced back to the homophonic English words Eye for "eye" and I for "I" [ aɪ ]. The associated translation of the name is accordingly "I hate God". Meanwhile, the name goes back to Chris Hilliard, a former member of the band. Hilliard was the band's singer for a short time before the first demo recordings took place. According to Williams, Hilliard experienced a mental breakdown shortly after being named. Immediately after his psychiatric stay, he distanced himself from the band. Jimmy Bower tells Tom Denny that Hilliard later became a devout Christian and wanted to convince Bower to drop the band name.

The name is often mistakenly associated with a satanic expression. Bower explains the concept behind the name as a cynical religious comment: "The idea was that if God could see what he created, he would hate himself". As a further interpretation, he offers the relationship to material goods and drugs: For him it is about belief "or addiction, people who believe that drugs or money are God." According to Williams, the name is based on a religious-conceptual consideration of Hilliard, which the Emphasizes the importance of the eye as a sense organ and thus removed the name, which was first written in an article as The EyeHateGod, from the mostly associated statement “I hate God” to a term such as “The eye hatred” for the image of God devised by Hilliard .

“He had this whole strange concept about the eye like, what you see is God and you hate your vices and your vices are God. I honestly still don't know what he meant by that. "

- Mike Williams

Mike Williams also describes the band name as a concept about foreign control. He refers the name to the religious idea that God justifies human decisions or the justification of addictive behavior is based on social conditions.

The band uses a coherent spelling with inner major muscles , while the press mostly dispenses with the inner major muscles. The lettering used on sound carriers and merchandise articles consists exclusively of capital letters. A spelling with nouns separated from each other is rarely found, mostly in printed reviews or interviews from the band's first years.

Side projects

In addition to their work for EyeHateGod, all musicians are also active in other bands.

Guitarist Jimmy Bower is active as a drummer with the band Down and was a temporary member of Crowbar and Corrosion of Conformity as well as a permanent guitarist of the band Superjoint Ritual . The other members of the band also founded the metal project Outlaw Order , which is also marketed under the title 00%. Mike Williams works for Phil Anselmo's label Housecore Records , where the joint crustcore project Arson Anthem is under contract. Corrections House was founded by Sanford Parker, Bruce Lamont, Scott Kelly and Williams, based on Mike Williams' book Cancer as a Social Activity . In 2010 Williams also founded the post-industrial project The Guilt Øf…. The former long-time second guitarist Brian Patton plays guitar for the sludge band Soilent Green. Joey LaCaze had various electro-industrial projects and was active as a voodoo drummer. Bower and LaCaze founded the southern rock project The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight with other musicians from the NOLA scene in 1996, to which Scott “Wino” Weinreich and Pepper Keenan contributed guest vocals.

literature

• J.Bennet: Hazardous Prescription . In: Albert Mudrian (Ed.): Precious Metal. Decibel presents the Stories behind 25 extreme Metal Masterpieces . Da Capo Press, Philadelphia PA 2009, ISBN 978-0-306-81806-6 , pp. 165-178 .
• Bobby Bergon: My Introduction to EyeHateGod . In: Pat Roig (Ed.): From Staple Guns to Thumptacks . lulu, 2010, ISBN 978-0-557-56356-2 .
• Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . Rockdetector, 2003, ISBN 978-1-901447-14-9 .

Web links

Commons : EyeHateGod  - collection of images

• Official website
• EyeHateGod at laut.de
• EyeHateGod at Allmusic (English)
• EyeHateGod at Discogs (English)
• EyeHateGod at Doom-Metal.com

Individual evidence

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2. ^ ^{A b} Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal . Rockdetector, 2003, ISBN 978-1-901447-14-9 , pp. 161 ff .
3. ^ Bobby Bergon: My Introduction to EyeHateGod . In: Pat Roig (Ed.): From Staple Guns to Thumptacks . lulu, 2010, ISBN 978-0-557-56356-2 , pp. 15 .
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