![]() Spiers sounds like an absolute fucking maniac throughout the entirety of this album, who takes just as much time channeling his inner Delta bluesman as he does digging through the same gravel pits that Mike IX Williams’ vocal cords dwell in. It’s a plodding and occasionally crushing experience that certainly sets off its very unsettling tones with “Death Goes to the Winner,” relying heavily on repetition and the caustic vocal performances of Creston Spiers. The band’s reunion album, 2008’s hulking Life…the Best Game in Town, sounds about as grimy and weathered as the Iron Maiden poster that adorns the cover. Pair this with the band’s unquestionable Melvins influences that can be seen all over their discography and you’ve got yourself one of the most frequently-overlooked groups in the stoner metal scene. Though Harvey Milk certainly incorporates plenty of metal influences into their sound, it’s their undeniable blues and rock influences that really helped separate them as one of the more interesting groups to crawl out of the slimy, Southern metal underground of the early 1990s. Though they may not be quite as unabashedly crushing as Eyehategod, Georgia’s Harvey Milk feel a lot more like kindred spirits to the band than a lot of their more metallic peers and actually share quite a few things in common. – Spencer Snitil Harvey Milk – Life…The Best Game In Town SubRosa are far from legends, but with a few more years and some more branching out, they just might be someday. This record speaks volumes about the evolution of sludge music, and this band is a prime example of what happens when you try new things and go about them gradually: you end up finding what works really well, and honing your sound to be a cut above the rest. The melodies they produce with their vocals soar leagues above the rest of the scene, and the band effortlessly combines their own special brand of heavy sludge music with clean vocals to create a sound that extremely relaxing, given how abrasive the instruments can be at some points. What I mean by that is that SubRosa goes beyond simply trying to be a sludge band they enter the stratosphere, trying to combine post-rock, sludge metal, and even some atmospheric music to create a sound that is larger than life, and one that the band has grown accustomed to producing. Their music is more melodic, with more focus on the sound of the track as opposed to the sound of the instruments, if that makes any sense. While they aren’t exactly as “straightforward” sludge as Eyehategod, SubRosa carry plenty of weight with their name. So, without further ado, here’s “For Fans Of: Eyehategod.” Enjoy. Today, we’re going to present to you some of the worshipers at Eyehategod’s altar of sonic violence, in the hopes that you’ll find some of your new favorite groups. Really, after listening to anything by them, it’s clear why they’ve become the giants of underground metal they have, and why they have such the legions of followers they do. Every track from the band is sheer malevolence that has them throwing punk vocals over downtuned, fuzzed-out bluesy rock riffs and walls of distorted feedback in a combo as groovy as it is aggressive, and we’ll be damned if it doesn’t work. It’s not like they really needed to do much following Take As Needed For Pain, though, since that album led to an explosion of sludge metal bands due to the sheer hatred, both of the self and of the world around, contained within. Really, there’s nobody else quite like them: one of the foremost proprietors of the style, the New Orleans natives formed in the late 80s and put out the classic, genre-forming sludge album Take As Needed For Pain in 1993 to much acclaim, issuing from there a couple subsequent releases but maintaining a long, long radio silence after 2000 until returning with their self-titled Eyehategod in 2014. No name could better evoke the downtempo hatred and nihilistic glee inherent to sludge metal better than Eyehategod. For Fans Of is a column that takes one very well-known and popular band that our writers and readers are fans of, and then our staff write about a small group of lesser-known bands that do similar things and who we think you all might like as well and give a listen to. ![]()
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