Joey LaCaze

Mike IX Williams and Joey LaCaze in the background during the EyeHateGod performance at the 2011 Roskilde Festival

Joseph "Joey" Monroe LaCaze (born August 21, 1971 in New Orleans ; † August 23, 2013 ibid) was an American sludge drummer and post-industrial musician.

Career

LaCaze was known as a founding member of the band EyeHateGod , he was also active in the bands The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight and Outlaw Order . In addition, he worked as a percussionist for voodoo ceremonies in New Orleans and maintained various experimental electronic solo projects influenced by noise and industrial , such as Hyperdermic-Stigmata, The Solemn Sickness Continuum and Magickal Child of Thelema, whose recordings he mainly sold as MC and CD-R .

death

After EyeHateGod finished a European tour on August 20, Joey LaCaze died of respiratory failure on August 23, 2013 at his home in New Orleans. He was 42 years old. The drummer had suffered from severe asthma since his youth. Mike Williams stated that LaCaze suffered from sleep apnea syndrome with massive respiratory pauses 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 establishment of a donation account. The examining doctors named respiratory failure as the cause of death. To support LaCaze daughter, the band set up their own donation account. A week after his death, LaCaze Asche was buried as part of a voodoo ceremony. Among those in attendance were the deceased's family, band members and members of the New Orleans sludge scene, including Phil Anselmo .

Posthumously

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 the band's performance, Crovers' statement and the audience joey chants as a tribute to the late LaCaze. Despite the loss of a boyfriend from an early age and one of the founding members, the breakup of the band was not an issue for the remaining members of EyeHateGod, as the remaining founding members Jimmy Bower and Mike Williams pointed out. There were no comments on the continuation of the other projects with Lacaze's participation. The album EyeHateGod , released in May 2014 , which was still completely recorded by LaCaze, is dedicated to his memory and the title of the album is also described by Mike Williams as a homage.

“It just makes so much sense. I can't really explain why, but it's like a fresh start and his drums are on it and all of that. It just seems logical. When he died it all slipped into place and we all said 'Yeah, self-titled'. I think we didn't even really talk about it, we just knew it. "

- Mike Williams

Discography (selection)

tape	publication	title	Label
EyeHateGod	1990	In the Name of Suffering	Intellectual Convulsion / Emetic Records / Century Media
EyeHateGod	1993	Take as Needed for Pain	Emetic Records / Century Media
EyeHateGod	1996	Dopesick	Emetic Records / Century Media
EyeHateGod	1997	In These Black Days: Vol.1 (Split with Anal Cunt )	Hydra Head Records
EyeHateGod	2000	Southern discomfort	Emetic Records / Century Media
EyeHateGod	2000	Confederacy of Ruined Lives	Century Media
The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight	2000	The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight	Tee Pee Records
EyeHateGod	2001	10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke) ( Live album )	Emetic Records / Century Media
Outlaw order	2003	Legalize Crime (EP)	Southern Lord
Outlaw order	2008	Dragging down the enforcer	Season of Mist
EyeHateGod	2005	Preaching the "End-Time" Message	Emetic Records
EyeHateGod	2014	EyeHateGod	Housecore Records / Century Media / Daymare Recordings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mike IX Williams: Joey. EyeHateGod, accessed March 20, 2014 . 
2. ^ J. Bennett: Precious Metal . Ed .: Albert Mudrian. Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-306-81806-6 , Hazardous Prescription , pp. 165-178 .
3. ↑ metalunderground.com: Buick MacKayne: Eyehategod drummer Joey Lacaze Reportedly Passes Away. Metal Underground, accessed March 17, 2014 . 
4. ^ Fred Pessaro: Eyehategod offer details on the passing of Joey LaCaze. InvisibleOranges.com, accessed March 17, 2014 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kim Kelly: an Interview with EyeHateGods Mike IX Williams. NPR, accessed March 19, 2014 . 
6. ↑ EYEHATEGOD Release Official Statement On Drummer Joey LaCaze's Cause Of Death. Metal Injection, accessed March 19, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Graham 'Gruhamed' Hartmann: joey-lacaze-this-rockers-pay tribute. Loudwire, accessed August 18, 2014 . 
8. ↑ EyeHateGod announces new drummer. Blabbermouth, accessed March 20, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Kim Kelly: An Interview With Eyehategod's Mike 'IX' Williams. NPR Music, accessed March 14, 2014 . 
10. ↑ EyeHatesGod Jimmy Bower: Joey LaCaze would have never wanted us to quit. Blabbermouth, archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on March 20, 2014 . 
11. ^ ^{A b} Denise Falzon: Eyehategod Talk Their First Album in 14 Years and Moving Past the Death of Joey LaCaze. exclaim.ca, accessed on May 22, 2014 : “It just made so much sense to me. I can't really explain how it makes sense, but it's just like a new beginning and his drums are on there, you know the whole thing. It just seemed so logical. When he died, it just kind of fit into place and we all were just like, 'Yeah, self-titled.' I don't even think we had to really discuss it, we just automatically knew. "