In the Name of Suffering
| In the Name of Suffering | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio album by EyeHateGod | ||||
|
Publication |
1990 December 1, 1992 |
|||
| Label (s) | Intellectual Convulsion Century Media | |||
|
Format (s) |
||||
|
Title (number) |
9 or 14 |
|||
|
running time |
|
|||
| occupation |
|
|||
|
Studio (s) |
Festival studios, connoisseurs |
|||
|
||||
In the Name of Suffering is the 1990 debut album of the sludge band EyeHateGod , which is considered to be the initial spark of the music genre.
history
After EyeHateGod had marketed two demos , Garden Dwarf Woman Driver and Lack of Almost Everything , and offered their music to various record companies with the demos, she signed the French label Intellectual Convulsion for an album in 1990. The band produced this first album in a small studio in Kenner , Louisiana , without a professional sound engineer, but only with the staff of the festival studio . The company made a sum of 1,000 US dollars available for the production, of which, according to singer Mike IX Williams, US $ 800 went to the studio and technicians and US $ 200 was spent on alcohol and marijuana .
"We had no clue what the Fuck to do in a 'real' Studio so we just went with instinct."
"We had no idea what the hell to do in a 'real' studio, so we acted instinctively."
Gary Mader , the band's bass player since 2001, said that at the time the album was recorded, the band had viewed their own work as a joke rather than a serious passion. According to J. Bennett, the album was recorded on an incomplete drum kit and cheap guitars with missing strings. Mike IX described the album in retrospect as uncompromising, rough and primitively aggressive, a circumstance that he also attributed to the amateurish production. Joe LaCaze gave a similar assessment of the sound of the album and emphasized the band's surprise that there was anyone willing to publish the music.
The small French record company pressed about 2,000 copies of the debut album and made five albums available to each band member. After the record company had to file for bankruptcy, the band switched to the German label Century Media . Century signed EyeHateGod for five more albums, re-released In the Name of Suffering in 1992 and invited the band to do a European tour with Crowbar , for which Jimmy Bower played drums at the time. On October 29, 2007, six years after EyeHateGod broke from the contract with Century Media, the company released the album again and expanded it to four alternative versions of the title Left to Starve ; Hit a girl ; Depress and Children of God , originally from the 1990 demo Lack of Almost Everything . All four tracks have already been released on the live album 10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke) from 2001. There were also some liner notes written by Mike IX Williams .
style
According to William York, all elements that would later be typical of the sludge were already included on this album. He described the style of the album as a rough, aggressive, depressed and crude - a mixture of doom metal and hardcore with influences from the blues and stoner rock , occasionally interrupted by noise bursts that are always by Michael IX Williams' guttural krächzendem yelp and howler singing accompanied becomes.
"Lots of feedback, squeals and" fat "bass lines. The guitars are fuzzy and distorted, playing some slow and catchy riffs that go well with the bass. Even though most of the music is quite slow and linear there are still some fast moments that will get your blood pumping. "
“Lots of feedback, screeching and“ fat ”bass lines. The guitars sound indistinct and distorted and yet run slowly and memorably with the bass. Although most of the music stays slow, there are some quick moments that get the blood boiling. "
The recurring feedback from the guitars, Williams' throaty vocals, the rough production, and the catchy bass runs are emphasized by various reviewers.
"When we did the first album, it was impossible to explain to these guys that we wanted the feedback, that it was part of the song."
"When we did the first album, it was impossible to explain to people that we wanted the feedback, that they were part of the songs."
York compared the band to late Black Flag and slow The Melvins . These comparisons, especially with The Melvins, are also underlined by Jimmy Bower and Mike Williams.
influence
Although the mixture of hardcore punk and doom metal was frowned upon at the time of the album, according to Mike IX Williams, it should be formative for the sludge.
“With a feedback and a little bass run, Eyehategod ushered in one of the most authoritative albums with Depress and the foundation of Sludge. In 4:58 minutes, all Eyehategod trademarks are already condensed into a lump of anger that is still looking for its equal today: thundering bass, screeching, uptempo parts and dragging set pieces, "
Since then, EyeHateGod has been an important player in the NOLA metal scene , alongside Down and Crowbar, as well as the original band of Sludge.
Track list
- Depress - 4:58
- Man Is Too Ignorant to Exist - 2:37
- Shinobi - 5:15
- Pigs - 2:59
- Run it Into the Ground - 3:10
- Godsong - 2:44
- Children of God - 3:10
- Left to Starve - 3:09
- Hostility Dose - 2:43
- Hit a Girl - 4:18
- Left to Starve ( Demo ) - 4:06
- Hit a Girl (Demo) - 4:12
- Depress (demo) - 7:34
- Children of God (demo) - 3:46
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Mike IX In the Name of Suffering Booklet Information
- ↑ Mader in an interview with Spirit of Metal
- ↑ See Bennett, J .: Hazardous Prescription. In Mudrian, Albert: Precious Metal . Cambridge 2009.S. 165. ISBN 978-0-306-81806-6
- ↑ Interview with LaCaze on CoC
- ↑ History on WordPress
- ↑ label information on Century Media
- ↑ a b c allmusic.com: Review of In the Name of Suffering
- ↑ Review on MetalStorm
- ↑ Review on SatanStoleMyTeddybear ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Review on Sludge Doom
- ^ Bennett, J .: Hazardous Prescription . In Mudrian, Albert: Precious Metal . Cambridge 2009 p. 169. ISBN 978-0-306-81806-6
- ↑ Alex Young: Interview with Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod - November 2010. Lithium Magazine, archived from the original on April 16, 2012 ; Retrieved April 14, 2011 .
- ↑ Mike IX Williams in an interview with MetalNews
- ↑ History on allmusic
- ↑ Robert Müller: Now, take it easy… . In: Metal Hammer , December 2010, p. 89.