The band nail-down a ‘jam room’ vibe that surfaces throughout, giving the listener a peek behind the fuzzy curtain into what it might be like in the rehearsal room. ![]() Three Black Eyes is textbook EYEHATEGOD – growling bass, snarling riffs, tumbling drums and heaving feedback seeing the quartet cooking with ketamine. Fake What’s Yours drips with striding, sneering bombast, fast-pumping buzzsaw riffs peppering the track. The Outer Banks sees him howling, in near ragged spoken word, over descending, chugging riffs and rapid snare rolls. Mike IX Williams still pontificates with righteous, snarling fury. It’s expanded, sucked in influences from far and wide, and mutated to become (arguably) even more misanthropic and filthy than it’s ever been.įor many, there’s enough classic EHG meat on these bones to delight here. The elder statesmen still sling sludge at its purest – Jimmy Bower crafts caustic riffs with peerless efficiency – but sludge isn’t what it was three decades ago. They’ve earned respect all over the world for living, playing, and committing hard.īut whatever it is – there’s something that creaks a little about A History Of Nomadic Behavior. ![]() They’ve weathered storms both metaphorical and literal, outlasting peers, fads, presidential administrations and entire music scenes. Thirty three years into a career of debauchery and dirt, in the midst of a global pandemic, it’s a minor metallic miracle that EYEHATEGOD are here at all. ![]() While these 12 tracks don’t constitute the perfect EYEHATEGOD album, they do constitute an important one. Now, it must be said – whether their sixth full-length, A History Of Nomadic Behavior, is destined to be a stone-cold classic, an inarguable genre essential as 1993’s Take As Needed For Pain or 1996’s Dopesick were, is up for debate. Coming off the back of a year that was as much fun as playing catch with liquid shit, and heading into one that looks like more of the same, NOLA’s most spiteful sons are here to channel the frustration and hatred festering beneath the surface of everything right now into their signature brand of aural acidity.
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