The Big Takeover: Eyehategod - A History of Nomadic Behavior (Century Media)
Eyehategod somehow still exists. Not only that, but despite seemingly constant setbacks (bandmember deaths, interpersonal squabbling, singer Mike IX Williams suffering liver failure), the New Orleans band is, if anything, stronger than ever. Seven years after its previous self-titled LP, the quartet comes back swinging with sixth LP A History of Nomadic Behavior. While still working within the general framework of depressive doomcore, the songs do more than just lumber along at the pace of a wounded dinosaur. Tempo and time signature shifts, melodies betraying the influences of postpunk and...