![]() ![]() The band plays a breakneck fusion of black, death, and thrash metal, combining the blasphemous themes, speed, and raw intensity of all three genres into one mighty potent gumbo. Formed in 1996, Goatwhore consists of guitarist Sammy Duet, vocalist Ben Falgoust, drummer Zack Simmons, and bassist Nathan Bergeron. Joining Eyehategod on their upcoming tour are fellow New Oleanders Goatwhore, the band whose name just gets better every time you say it. Louis, also at Red Flag, on April 15th, 2022 they have also headlined multiple shows at Fubar and Pop’s over the years. This Thursday’s show at Red Flag will mark almost a year to the day since the band’s last performance in St. Although the band has only released six studio albums over their 30+ years together, they have toured nationally or internationally virtually every year since the release of their first album, In the Name of Suffering, in 1992. The band’s lineup for the upcoming tour will consist of Eyehategod’s two remaining original members-vocalist Mike “IX” Williams and guitarist Jimmy Bower-as well as bassist Gary Mader, who joined the band in 2001, and drummer Aaron Hill, who joined in 2013. Few albums have so vividly expressed the lived reality of suffering greatly in the land of opportunity, and the album’s message resonates powerfully to this day. Every song on Take as Needed for Pain paints a disturbed portrait of people living far beyond the margins of society, their minds and bodies ravaged from the years of abuse, humiliation, and self-medication the album title insinuates (“Breast fed from a dog/Since the day I was born/Severe allergic infection/Narcotic induced hypothermia,” from the title track). Music that still very much hurts.As innovative as the music itself was, Eyehategod’s utterly nihilistic worldview, communicated through the unsettling, abstract lyrics and inimitable (and often unintelligible) vocal stylings of Mike “IX” Williams. From the bitter pill of opener “Built Beneath the Lies” to the hypnotic haze of closer “Every Thing, Every Day” it’s clear that that EYEHATEGOD hasn’t slowed or mellowed with time. A History of Nomadic Behavior finds the band, now slimmed to a four-piece rounded out by bassist Gary Mader and drummer Aaron Hill, leaner and meaner than ever road-hardened by recent tours with Black Label Society, Corrosion of Conformity and Napalm Death in the US and abroad. With a discography including sludge-punk mainstays like In the Name of Suffering (1990), Take as Needed for Pain (1993) Dopesick (1996) or 2014’s eponymously-titled LP, released in the US through Housecore Records, EHG laid the cracked foundation for their infamous and influential sound. That’s been the blueprint since guitarist Jimmy Bower (also of NOLA supergroup, Down) founded the band in 1988 with vocalist Michael IX Williams joining not long after. Anyone familiar with EHG’s story knows this is survivor’s music, a sound unto itself where Sabbathian riffs are meted out with a caustic anger that goes beyond punk. That’s the sense of disenchantment and disease that lies the heart of their latest and sixth full-length album, A History of Nomadic Behavior. Since 1988, they’ve been a soundtrack for the troubled masses. New Orleans’ EYEHATEGOD is the snarling, bilious sound of dead-end America.
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