- 01Garden Dwarf Woman DriverThat day, they wrote four songs that would appear on Eyehategod’s 1989 demo, Garden Dwarf Woman Driver, most of which would get further refined for the band’s first LP, In the Name of Suffering, released in 1990 by Intellectual Convulsion, a small label out of France.from the chapter
- 02In the Name of SufferingThat day, they wrote four songs that would appear on Eyehategod’s 1989 demo, Garden Dwarf Woman Driver, most of which would get further refined for the band’s first LP, In the Name of Suffering, released in 1990 by Intellectual Convulsion, a small label out of France.from the chapter
- 03Take as Needed for PainIntellectual Convulsion folded not long after putting out In the Name of Suffering, but Eyehategod was soon picked up by Century Media, who released the endlessly influential Take as Needed for Pain LP in 1993.from the chapter
- 04“Sister Fucker (Pt. 1)”Schultz opens the tastefully titled “Sister Fucker (Pt. 1)” with mean-spirited swing.from the chapter
- 05“30$ Bag”Take as Needed for Pain’s fifth song, “30$ Bag,” essentially consists of three riffs, yet LaCaze makes each one groove in multiple ways, a tactic from the book of New Orleans blues drummers.from the chapter
- 06“Disturbance”The longest song on the LP, “Disturbance,” divides the album into two chapters, working as a gruesome interlude.from the chapter
- 07DopesickBut 1996’s Dopesick is rawer and more venomous. When I contacted EHG’s management for an interview about Dopesick, they told me the band would most likely not want to speak about that album in any depth.from the chapter
- 08Southern DiscomfortEyehategod found a new bassist in Danny Nick, compiled several demos and singles, released them as Southern Discomfort, and started writing songs that would appear on 2000’s Confederacy of Ruined Lives.from the chapter
- 09Confederacy of Ruined LivesEyehategod found a new bassist in Danny Nick, compiled several demos and singles, released them as Southern Discomfort, and started writing songs that would appear on 2000’s Confederacy of Ruined Lives.from the chapter
- 1010 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke)Still tangled in the messiness of a major label deal, the group put out 10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke) in 2001 to complete its contract with Century Media.from the chapter
- 11Down IIBower is one of those people who bleeds music: even though EHG was functioning again, he wrote and recorded an album with his swamp jam band, The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight, played drums on Down II, and mimicked the sounds of a car crash with each of his riffs on the first two Superjoint Ritual records.from the chapter
- 12Legalize CrimeAntsy to play, Williams, LaCaze, and Patton teamed with former Eyehategod bassist Marc Shultz and guitarist Gary Mader, who later replaced Danny Nick as EHG’s permanent bassist, to form Outlaw Order, releasing the snarling Legalize Crime in 2003.from the chapter
- 13“New Orleans is the New Vietnam”Over the next few years, Eyehategod slowly began picking up the pieces, playing a few shows, and writing some new songs, like the stomping “New Orleans is the New Vietnam.”from the chapter
- 14CrowbarVideos for “Existence is Punishment” and “All I Had (I Gave),” both from the bridge-buckling Crowbar LP (1993), aired on the show as its protagonists provided such insight as, “This music is slow and fat.”from the chapter
- 15Time Heals NothingFrom 1995’s Time Heals Nothing onward, Mr. Windstein has also illustrated a penchant for dynamic eeriness, intermixing brutish heaviness with foreboding ether.from the chapter
- 16Odd Fellows RestOthers gravitate to the sonically varied Odd Fellows Rest. To me, 1995’s Time Heals Nothing and 2001’s Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form are peak Crowbar.from the chapter
- 17Sonic Excess in Its Purest FormTo me, 1995’s Time Heals Nothing and 2001’s Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form are peak Crowbar.from the chapter
- 18“The Only Factor”Opener “The Only Factor” sprints in a forceful D-beat and then gives listeners cauliflower ear with its sludgy chokehold.from the chapter
- 19Master of PuppetsAs for Sonic Excess in Its Purest Form, “The Lasting Dose” envisions Master of Puppets’ guitar harmonies through a watery opiate blur.from the chapter
- 20NOLABack in the early nineties, he started jamming with Phil Anselmo, Jimmy Bower, Pepper Keenan, and Todd Strange in Down, releasing the classic NOLA in 1995, a record that inhabits the same shelf of prestige as Paranoid, Reign in Blood, and The Great Southern Trendkill.from the chapter
- 21ParanoidBack in the early nineties, he started jamming with Phil Anselmo, Jimmy Bower, Pepper Keenan, and Todd Strange in Down, releasing the classic NOLA in 1995, a record that inhabits the same shelf of prestige as Paranoid, Reign in Blood, and The Great Southern Trendkill.from the chapter
- 22Reign in BloodBack in the early nineties, he started jamming with Phil Anselmo, Jimmy Bower, Pepper Keenan, and Todd Strange in Down, releasing the classic NOLA in 1995, a record that inhabits the same shelf of prestige as Paranoid, Reign in Blood, and The Great Southern Trendkill.from the chapter
- 23The Great Southern TrendkillBack in the early nineties, he started jamming with Phil Anselmo, Jimmy Bower, Pepper Keenan, and Todd Strange in Down, releasing the classic NOLA in 1995, a record that inhabits the same shelf of prestige as Paranoid, Reign in Blood, and The Great Southern Trendkill.from the chapter