Mike Williams (singer)

Mike Willams at Hellfest 2018.

Michael D. Williams , better known as Mike Williams or Mike IX or Mike IX Williams (born April 14, 1968 in High Point , North Carolina ) is an American singer , music journalist and author . Williams became popular with the sludge band EyeHateGod in the early 1990s . Since then he has been working on various projects with different musical characteristics. He worked for the New York extreme metal magazine Metal Maniacs in the mid-1990s. He also published a volume of poetry under the title Cancer as a Social Activity .

Life

childhood

Triangle Park in High Point, the birth town of Mike Williams.

Williams, who was born in High Point as the son of a tobacco farmer, lived there until his mother's death in 1977. At the age of nine, Williams moved his family to New Orleans , where his father died two years later. Shortly after the father's death, his older brother committed suicide . Until his father's death, the family suffered from the violent man Williams describes as the permanently armed thug, drinker, and old greaser of the 1950s. After his father's death, Williams lived with his eldest brother for a short time. However, after Williams eluded his brother's upbringing, this brought him into a boys' dorm , where Williams lived for about three years.

Williams parents listened to a lot of Elvis Presley and rock 'n' roll , which Williams described as formative. His brother, who also died, brought him The Beatles and the early publications of Elton John . His eldest brother referred him Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper . In addition, Williams became interested in Kiss as a child and read Kiss magazine regularly . An article in the magazine dealt with the "UK Punk Explosion" with performers such as The Sex Pistols , The Damned and The Clash , whereupon Williams turned to punk and hardcore . October 1978 saw the post-punk band Devo appear on the television program Saturday Night Live . This inspired him to found a band himself at some point. His brother worked in a bar in New Orleans and occasionally took young Mike to concerts by the first generation of punk in New Orleans.

youth

Also to Minor Threat to watch live, Williams withdrew from the educational institution.

After 1979 Williams often withdrew from the educational institution to see performances by punk and hardcore bands such as Minor Threat , Black Flag , DOA or Circle Jerks . On these visits to hardcore concerts, he explained that they had nourished in him the will to shape his life with music. In particular, a performance by the hardcore band Black Flag, which Williams saw at the age of 12, had a profound effect on his life. Moreover, were punk - Scenes from New Orleans and California for Williams to important social entity that certain from then on his life and what he felt to family into adulthood Connected.

At 15 he formed his first punk band under the name Teenage Waste . The band played about 15 concerts in a bar in a segregated part of New Orleans. With his immersion in the punk scene, Williams began to withdraw from the school and to travel with the Greyhound Lines through America. At the age of 16 he left home permanently and temporarily lived in the California punk scene . After a while he returned to New Orleans. Nevertheless, he maintained the behavior and, into adulthood, often traveled around the country with a backpack. After the end of Teenage Waste and his return from California, Williams participated in a number of other band projects. In the mid-1980s, the musical direction of his projects took a turn when Williams became interested in metal. Since punk was stagnating in his eyes at that time, he and some friends founded the band Suffocation by Filth in 1985 . This time he used bands like Venom , Slayer , Celtic Frost and Sodom as inspiration. He began using marijuana , tranquilizers, and psychotropic substances in the mid-1980s . After Suffocation by Filth , other bands like Crawlspace and Drip followed . In addition to Williams, the later EyeHateGod members Jimmy Bower and Brian Patton, as well as Kyle Thomas, who later became known as the singer of Exhorder , took part in Drip . During Williams' youth there were also his first conflicts with the local police, which, among other things , cleared some early concerts of Teenage Waste .

The typical cemeteries of New Orleans were interesting for the horror punk band The Misfits because of the special above-ground architecture.

An incident with the law enforcement officers, in which the horror punk band The Misfits was involved in addition to Mike Williams and some friends , made it into the local press . Williams, who had gone to Houston , Texas with two friends to see The Misfits Live, met the band before the gig. After the concert, the friends accompanied the band to New Orleans, where they wanted to visit one of the city's cemeteries after their performance there . After visiting the mausoleums for an hour , the band and friends were picked up by the police, suspected of having been desecrated. The Misfits were jailed for one night. Williams and his friends were released by the police after a search and rough treatment. After the police hit a girl in the group in the face with a flashlight, they found they were only teenagers and let her go. Williams describes the incident as a traumatic event and named a feeling of helplessness that was due to the violent assault by the police.

success

EyeHateGod, the most famous band with Williams involvement.

Jimmy Bower invited Williams to act as the new vocalist for EyeHateGod in 1988 after previous vocalist Chris Hillard had joined the revival movement . Williams himself wanted to refuse participation first. He suspected Jimmy Bower would expect him to sing like The Obsessed singer Wino . Bower denied this assumption, however, and expressed the express wish to incorporate Williams' throaty screaming into the music as a hardcore element.

The band recorded two demo tapes and was signed by the French independent label Intellectual Convulsion. The debut album In the Name of Suffering was made in 1990. The label provided the band with the sum of 1,000 US dollars. From this, the band rented a recording studio and bought $ 200 worth of alcohol and marijuana . The debut was created without technical knowledge or appropriate personnel. The company pressed between 1500 and 2000 copies and filed for bankruptcy shortly afterwards. Nevertheless, the album founded the genre of sludge with the combination of southern rock , hardcore punk and doom metal . Especially the hoarse screaming vocals of Williams, borrowed from hardcore, presented a new, hitherto unknown variant of Doom Metal.

After Intellectual Convulsion went bankrupt, Century Media signed EyeHateGod, re-released the debut, and toured Europe with Crowbar . After completing the tour in 1993, the band returned to New Orleans to record a second studio album. Mike Williams was evicted from his apartment by his girlfriend at the time after the tour. Having become homeless as a result of this separation, he temporarily lived in a room above the striptease club Big Daddy's , which was only a few blocks away from the recording studio.

After the release of the second album Take as Needed for Pain , the band toured internationally again. They have appeared with Chaos UK , Buzzov • en , White Zombie and Corrosion of Conformity, among others . Following the tour, Williams traveled to New York , where he worked as a music journalist for Metal Maniacs magazine . As such, he and Alicia Morgan, from Sludge Band 13, established the genre Black Metal and Grindcore in the magazine.

For the recordings of the next album, the meanwhile addicted to heroin , Williams commuted with Greyhound Lines between New Orleans, San Francisco and New York. For Dopesick's opening track , the musicians experimented with the sound of breaking glass. Williams smashed several bottles in the recording room. During the recording he cut his hand deeply and smeared the oozing blood on the floor. When he wrote the words 'PIG' and 'SATAN' on the studio walls, producer Billy Anderson resolved the situation. A cleaning company cleaned the rooms and the band resumed production the next day. On the last morning of the recording, the band instructed the producer to delete all previous recordings and recorded the album under the influence of Xanax in a continuous set. Williams later compared the entire studio time for the album with a near-death experience . The tour following the release was interrupted due to Williams' addiction and the difficulties it caused. He was in severe health and personal health and also had financial difficulties. In the course of this interruption, the band broke up. After three years in New York, the still addicted Williams returned to New Orleans. In 2000 the band got together again and played the studio album Confederacy of Ruined Lives, their last for a long time .

In the following years Williams published the first EP with the EyeHateGod side project Outlaw Order and in 2005 his first book Cancer as a Social Activity . Inspired by the poets of the Beat Generation as well as Charles Bukowski and Clive Barker , Williams wrote a collection of poems that often use the cut-up technique. The cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs and the substantive ideas of Barker and Bukowski influenced his own writing style. The main themes of the book are poverty and human suffering, but also drug abuse, addiction and violence. Williams calls his nihilistic poetry Dark Negative Poetry . In addition to around 200 poems, the book also contained some collages . Until then, Williams wrote internationally for various fanzines .

Hurricane Kathrina

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with devastating effects . Mike Williams and his then long-time girlfriend Alicia Stillman, the singer of Sludge Band 13, were unable to leave town at the time. Williams was also on a methadone program. After a few days, Williams decided "to be unable to bear to stare at the same dead person on the corner every day." He and his girlfriend, with the approval of a police officer present, stole methadone and some sedatives from a drug store and drove to Morgan City . There the couple stayed in a motel. The owner informed the local police about them, and they were both arrested for alleged drug trafficking. While Stilman, whose father was a New Orleans police officer, was not imprisoned, Williams was imprisoned without adequate medical care. While in detention, Williams, a heroin, cocaine, and xanax addict , went through cold withdrawal within a week. According to his own statements, he vomited for a sleepless week. He ate soaked bread in hopes of keeping some nourishment in his body. He drank a lot of water and read books and magazines to distract himself whenever he could. Williams also received the suffix IX during this time.

Williams was imprisoned for 91 days in Orleans Parish Prison (background)

Williams friend Phil Anselmo paid 150,000 US dollars bail. On December 2, 2005, Williams was released after 91 days in prison. Anselmo took the homeless and destitute friend permanently in his guest house. In return, Williams encouraged Phil Anselmo and his bandmates and friends Brian Patton and Jimmy Bower to withdraw. With Anselmo, he spent a lot of time listening to music these days, which prompted both of them to found the crustcore band Arson Anthem together .

“I literally lost everything I owned in the world. I have nothing left. All I have left are my friends. At times like these, you find that the most important thing you need is. As long as I don't have to go to jail when the trial comes, I'm happy. Ultimately, I'm now clean from heroin. That is a good thing."

- Mike Williams

Williams was sentenced to five years probation in June 2006 for not having a permit to possess methadone outside of New Orleans, and underwent regular drug tests while on probation. As a further punishment, he was banished from New Orleans. Regarding this punishment, Williams stated that he would not be wanted by the police in the city and could be there, but that he would only appear publicly to a limited extent and that any further conflict with the law would probably be punished extremely severely. In 2009, Mike Williams summarized the significance of the events as a solidarizing and formative experience. He named the experiences as profound changes that became part of his identity. He added to his statement in 2010 that the events had changed him personally and made him reconsider his previously aggressive attitude.

After Kathrina

Williams with Joey LaCaze at the 2011 Roskilde Festival

After a few concerts with different projects and the slow rebuilding of his life, Williams resumed his career in 2008. With Outlaw Order and Arson Anthem he published the first new material after Kathrina, followed in 2009 by the spoken words project Mike IX . In the following years Williams intensified his activities as an author, musician and music journalist. Among other things, he writes for the Australian magazine Unbelievebaly Bad . In 2009 he married Michelle Maher, with whom Williams had been in a relationship since his release from prison in 2005. The couple lives together with various animals on the property of the Down singer and long-time friend Phil Anselmo . The former guest apartment Anselmo, in which Anselmo Williams recorded in 2005, is located above the music studio Nodferatu's Lair . The property, which includes Anselmo's own house in addition to the guest house, is located in a wooded area near Covington . Williams' wife has worked for Housecore Records ever since . Since September 2012 Williams moderated adventitious the Internet radio telecast Southern Nihilism Front Radio .

Cirrhosis of the liver

In December 2014, while on tour with Corrections House, Williams was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver with a fatal prognosis. The first treating doctor announced to Williams an expected lifespan of less than a year. Upon his return to New Orleans, Williams contacted various doctors and focused on changing his lifestyle so far. Willams canceled already planned tour activities for the time being on the grounds of health problems . 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. In the summer of 2016, Williams collapsed in his hotel room during a tour, whereupon a European tour with EyeHateGod planned for July and August 2016 was officially canceled due to "personal problems and scheduling difficulties". EyeHateGod meanwhile played a few concerts with Phil Anselmo as a guest singer, as well as a two-week US tour in autumn 2016 with Randy Blythe from Lamb of God as the singer. Blythe and Anselmo emphasized that they only saw themselves as tour aides until Williams recovered. After Williams liver and kidneys completely failed in October 2016 and the singer was dependent on a liver transplant according to a medical assessment, Maher-Williams sought the public in November 2016 to generate the financial means via a crowdfunding campaign. She stressed that Williams was reluctant to ask for help and that she had to convince him of the campaign herself. Williams received the necessary graft in mid-December. For further support, Williams bandmates initiated a benefit festival with Crowbar, Goatwhore and other performers of US metal, which took place at two locations in New Orleans and brought in around $ 20,000, which Williams would bear in addition to donations to cover the follow-up costs of his operation. Williams played his first concert after the transplant in April 2017 at the start of a small US tour.

activity

Band projects

Williams founded Corrections House with Scott Kelly from Neurosis and Shrinebuilder , among others .

Since his youth, Williams has been involved in various musical projects of different stylistic characteristics. He is particularly active in the areas of sludge , extreme metal , hardcore punk , grindcore and post-industrial .

The most important projects with his participation are the sludge band EyeHateGod , the hardcore band Outlaw Order , the crustcore band Arson Anthem and the industrial metal project Corrections House , as well as the post-industrial duo The Guilt Øf… . Most of these projects came about after Hurricane Katrina , only the bands EyeHateGod and Outlaw Order existed before.

Popular musicians from the post-metal and alternative scene are represented in many of these projects . He works with Scott Kelly ( Neurosis ), Sanford Parker ( Minsk ), Phil Anselmo ( Pantera ) and Hank Williams III , among others . Willams ascribes great importance to the various projects for his musical development.

style

His distinctly hoarse roaring vocals are presented by him in bands and projects oriented towards metal and hardcore, while he speaks with a clear voice for bands and projects from the fields of post-industrial , industrial metal and spoken words . The hoarse roaring vocals of Williams are mostly perceived as particularly angry and compared by reviewers with the "screams of a tormented larynx " and referred to as "unidentifiable angry zeal" and "atrocities turned into pathological sound". The distinctive singing is sometimes attributed to Williams' asthma , which has accompanied him since early childhood. With the recordings for the album by Arson Anthem, Williams varied his singing style through the influence of Phil Anselmo and thus achieved new opportunities to perform his singing.

“[T] he vocal recordings for the second release, Insecurity Notoriety , really got me going. Phil had helped me a lot with that. You understand what I'm saying on the album. It was a different experience than just adding my usual vocals. It also meant learning something. "

- Mike Williams

Writer and songwriter

Williams acts as a singer and songwriter in all projects. Similar to his poetry, his texts deal with human suffering, poverty, addiction and violence. Mike Williams writes his lyrics alone, but exchanges ideas with the musicians and is inspired, among other things, by introduced riffs. His writing style, like his graphic style, is influenced by the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs . His texts should appear cryptic and mystical. For this he admits to be deliberately incomprehensible in order to irritate his audience. Williams also admits that the lyrics can occasionally be adapted to the rhythm and flow of the music in the studio. His lyrics are mostly created using the same cut-up process.

Minister of the ULC

The seal of the Universal Life Church.

Williams is a registered minister with Universal Life Church . A minister is roughly equivalent to a priest. In this capacity, Williams offers the ceremonial accompaniment of weddings and funerals , which can be booked through its website.

The former anti-war initiative of the Universal Life Church enables everyone to be ordained minister at no expense, questions of faith and ceremonies. The consecration can now be carried out with a click of the mouse. The only credo of the church, founded in 1959, is "Do only the right thing". Under this credo, the church proclaims peace and human rights as well as freedom of religion and belief.

Williams explained his basic attitude to religion in an interview in 2010. When asked if he saw himself as an atheist , he replied that he would not believe in this word any more than he would in God , the devil or Santa Claus .

plant

Fonts

• Cancer as a Social Activity. Southern Roots Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9703544-1-9 .
• Contributions in: Pat Roig (Ed.): From Staple Guns to Thumbtacks. lulu.com, 2010, ISBN 978-0-557-56356-2 .

Discography

year	Interpreter	title	Publication / participation	Label
1988	EyeHateGod	Garden Dwarf Woman Driver	demo	Self-distribution
1990	EyeHateGod	Lack of Almost Everything	demo	Self-distribution
1990	EyeHateGod	In the Name of Suffering	album	Intellectual Convulsion / Century Media
1993	EyeHateGod	Take as Needed for Pain	album	Century Media
1994	EyeHateGod	Ruptured Heart Theory	single	Bovine Records
1994	EyeHateGod	EyeHateGod / 13 I.	Split EP EyeHateGod / 13	Ax / ction records
1994	Brutal truth	Need to control	Guest singing "Media Blitz" album	Earache
1995	EyeHateGod	EyeHateGod / 13 II	Split EP EyeHateGod / 13	Slap A Ham Records
1996	EyeHateGod	Dopesick	album	Century Media
1997	EyeHateGod	In these Black Days Vol.1	Split-EP EyeHateGod / Anal Cunt	Hydra Head Records
1998	Various artists	Gummo	Film music EyeHateGod - Serving Time in the Middle of Nowhere	Domino Records / New Line Records
2000	EyeHateGod	Southern discomfort	compilation	Century Media
2000	EyeHateGod	Confederacy of Ruined Lives	album	Century Media
2001	EyeHateGod	10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke)	Live album	Century Media
2002	EyeHateGod	The Age of Bootcamp	Split-EP EyeHateGod / Soilent Green	Incision Records
2003	Outlaw order	Legalize Crime	EP	Southern Lord
2004	EyeHateGod	Live in Tokyo	Live - DVD	Press Pause Media / Casettes
2004	EyeHateGod	I am the Gestapo	Split EP EyeHateGod / Cripple Bastards	Southern Lord
2004	EyeHateGod	99 Miles of Bad Road	EP	2 + 2 = 5
2005	Bloodyminded	Gift Givers	Guest singing "Ten Suicides" album	BloodLust!
2005	Various artists	We Reach: The Music of The Melvins	Tribute album EyeHateGod - "Easy as It Was"	Fractured transmitter
2005	EyeHateGod	Preaching the "End-Time" Message	compilation	Emetic Records
2008	Outlaw order	Dragging down the enforcer	album	Season of Mist
2008	Arson Anthem	Arson Anthem	EP	Housecore Records
2009	Mike IX	That's What The Obituary Said / Ten Suicides	single	Chrome peeler
2010	Arson Anthem	Insecurity Notoriety	album	Housecore Records
2010	The Guilt Øf ...	XXIII	Split EP The Guilt Øf… / Ivs Primae Noctis	Trips and dreams
2010	The Guilt Øf ...	Oh Lucy !!! / Tipping Foul Into The Dirt	Split EP The Guilt Øf… / Merzbow	Chrome peeler
2011	Kill life	DEA Dead End America	single	A389 & All The Way Alive
2011	The Guilt Øf ...	The Guilt Øf ...	album	At War With False Noise
2011	EyeHateGod	live	Live DVD	CARGO Records
2012	Corrections House	Hoax the system	EP	Was Crime Recordings
2012	EyeHateGod	New Orleans is the New Vietnam	single	Emetic
2012	Strong intention	Razorblade Express	Guest singing "Razorblade Express" EP	PATAC
2012	The Guilt Øf ...	Full of Hell / The Guilt Øf ...	Split EP Full of Hell / The Guilt Øf ...	A389
2013	Corrections House	Last City Zero	album	Neurot Recordings
2013	The Guilt Øf ...	Isolation room	album	Last hurray
2014	EyeHateGod	EyeHateGod	album	Century Media / Housecore Records / Daymare Recordings
2014	Corrections House	Writing History in Advance	Live album	Was Crime Recordings
2015	Corrections House	Know How To Carry A Whip	album	Neurot Recordings
2016	EyeHateGod	EyeHateGod / Psycho	Split EP EyeHateGod / Psycho	FOAD Records
2016	EyeHateGod	EyeHateGod / Bl'ast	Split-EP EyeHateGod / Bl'ast	Rise Records

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ ^{a b c} Wojtek Dobrogojski: Dwell in the Unrest. (No longer available online.) Steel For Brains, archived from the original on April 7, 2014 ; Retrieved April 13, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Brian Leli: God Probably Is not Too Fond of Them Either. Chicago Reader, accessed April 13, 2014 : "From a young age I would watch my dad beat my mom, fire guns off, beat my ass for no reason after we would come home from fucking church, stash his porn and booze bottles all over the house. You know, junk like that. My mom died when I was nine, dad at 11. My older brother committed suicide a week after my dad passed. " 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sean: Wild in the Streets. (No longer available online.) Cvlt Nation, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; Retrieved April 14, 2014 . 
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6. ↑ ^{a b c} Barbara Mondo: Mike Williams Interview. Unbelivebaly Bad, accessed April 17, 2014 . 
7. ^ ^{A b c} Mike IX Williams: Grave Robbers from Outer Space. (No longer available online.) Cvlt Nation, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; Retrieved April 15, 2014 . 
8. ^ Jacob Katel: Eyehategod's Mike IX Williams: I Can't Damage Myself Too Much Anymore or I Might Wake Up Unconscious Forever . Miami News Time, accessed April 15, 2014 . 
9. ^ Andy: Mike IX Williams on Music. theres something hard in there, accessed on April 14, 2014 : “I just remember, it blew me away, it was so intense. You know the song they have, it never ended up on anything but compilations, that song 'Machine'? They did that, and that just changed my life immediately when I heard that song. The way it was structured (was impactful). " 
10. ↑ Sean: Wild in the Streets. (No longer available online.) Cvlt Nation, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; Retrieved on April 14, 2014 : "I was like most punk kids or hardcore kids were back then, I was kind of an outcast, really shy and introverted at first, and I didn't have many friends. But when I started going to these shows, and relating to people - that was like when you could walk down the street, and if someone had a Clash shirt or a Ramones shirt or green hair, you stopped and you talked to them. So it was a huge family, and that became my family - I still talk to people from back in the day on Facebook and it's still a whole community. So I would say it shaped me 100% to be the person that I am today [.] " 
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14. ↑ Mike IX Williams: Grave Robbers from Outer Space. (No longer available online.) Cvlt Nation, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; Retrieved on April 15, 2014 : "One of us, a female, had a mohawk haircut, so they picked on her more than the rest, asking her" What are you? You a boy? “Obviously, she was not. She remained silent, so the prick in the blue uniform smashes her face and nose with his department issued flashlight, right next to me, about six inches to my right side. I felt helpless because if I spoke up, they would've done the same to me. " 
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43. ↑ ^{a b} Ghostwriter: My Name is God (I hate You). (No longer available online.) Cvlt Nation, archived from the original on April 16, 2014 ; Retrieved April 15, 2014 : "[W] ith Arson Anthem, yeah it's a hardcore punk band, but doing the vocals for that second record, Insecurity Notoriety, that really just helped me. Phil helped me a lot with that, because you can hear what I am saying on that record. It was a different experience for me as far as doing vocals on that. That was like a learning kind of thing. I don't think I would do that on the next Eyehategod record, I'll use the same style I always have with that band, but it was just helpful. […] [W] ith The Guilt Øf…, that's another thing that you can expand as an artist by just being creative and just doing different stuff. " 
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45. ^ The Guilt Øf ..., Mike IX, Corrections House
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