Confederacy Of Ruined Lives (CD)

Even before Katrina, New Orleans wasn't all fun and games. Long-running sludge metal masters Eyehategod have excelled at portraying the grimy side of their home city since their formation in the late '80s. Combining the crushing, glacial-paced heaviness of the Melvins with hardcore's raw brutality as well as southern rock's nimble riffage, Eyehategod have created a unique place for themselves in metal. Their landmark 1996 album, DOPESICK, and its tumultuous 2000 follow-up, CONFEDERACY OF RUINED LIVES, laid out a blueprint many bands would follow in the coming years.

• Category:  Music  »  Hard Rock & Metal  »  General/Heavy Metal
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• Release Date: September 19, 2000
• Label: Century Media Records (USA)
• UPC: 727701800820
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105793119
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #101587 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #3979 in Hard Rock & Metal (See Top 100 Hard Rock & Metal Bestsellers)
• #2925 in General/Heavy Metal (See Top 100 General/Heavy Metal Bestsellers)

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Eyehategod includes: Mike Williams (vocals); Jim Bower, Joe Lacaze, Danny Nick, Brian Patton.

Recorded at Balance Productions, Mandeville, Louisiana in June & July 2000.

After the veritable storm of festering ugliness kicked up by 1996's DOPESICK, the music on New Orleans sludge mongers Eyehategod's follow-up is surprisingly polished. Which is not to say that CONFEDERACY OF RUINED LIVES is anywhere near something that would be played on the radio. It's merely a step away from the harrowing ledge on which the band was standing previously. The production opens up some room for guitarist Jimmy Bowers to slip in some Southern-fried Skynyrd and Allman licks along with the swamp-thick heaviness, and gives the band enough space to establish some formidable grooves. Still, staggering heaps like "Inferior and Full of Anxiety" and the punishingly slow "Blood Money" come crusted with muck and singer Mike Williams's tortured growl. Most of the songs exceed the four-minute mark, giving all that pain and despair time to trickle down like thick black blood starting to draw flies.

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