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With its hateful, hopeless, anguished vocals set against extra-slow Iommi-inspired riffing, EYEHATEGOD are credited with founding sludge-core, one of the most vital new genres of metal to emerge from the 1990′s.
Countless bands have followed their footsteps, and after almost 20 years of creating some of the most corrosive, vile music known to man, EYEHATEGOD still hasn’t lost the piss and vinegar, propaganda, and despair that fueled them back in 1998.

In other related news:  Online now! Performances by Comus, Jex Thoth (Saturday, April 17th), Jex Thoth (Roadburn Afterburner), Astra, Sons of Otis (Thursday, April 15th), Eagle Twin (Thursday, April 15th), Eagle Twin (Friday, April 16th, including Ascend’s Fog, featuring Greg Anderson on guitar) and LongDistanceCalling are also available on-demand. Enjoy!

The inspiration for Opeth and countless others in the contemporary dark psychedelica, drone and even avant-garde metal scenes, Comus  presented their seminal album First Utterance (released in 1971) in its entirety with the original six-piece line up.

In other related news:  Online now! Performances by Eyehategod,  Jex Thoth (Saturday, April 17th), Jex Thoth (Roadburn Afterburner), Astra, Sons of Otis (Thursday, April 15th), Eagle Twin (Thursday, April 15th), Eagle Twin (Friday, April 16th, including Ascend’s Fog, featuring Greg Anderson on guitar) and LongDistanceCalling are also available on-demand. Enjoy!

The Obelisk: How was Roadburn for you guys?

JB: Amazing. Amazing. We played the same day Goatsnake headlined, and we’re walking around, and as a band we met Tom G. Warrior from Celtic Frost, and took a picture with him. He was like, “Dude, I respect you guys’ music,” and we were like, “What? Dude, you’re the man!” That was really cool. Got to see a lot of good friends. Missed a lot of friends because of the volcano, but also got the opportunity to come back and play the Afterburner thing, which we played over two hours. Was really cool. I guess if you’re a fan of any band and they play for over two hours, what a good night.

The Obelisk: That was a hell of a set at the Afterburner.

JB: It was just fun. Walter was like, “Thank you, have a good time. What do y’all need? Just go up there. How long are you gonna play?” And we were like, “Dude, we’ll play as long as you want us to play,” and he was like, “Cool.” It was a really relaxed environment. I remember Gary broke a bass string and they did Fuckmouth (laughs). Fuckmouth don’t show up much. Very underground. I barely even know about it (laughs). But no, that was probably the highlight show of the tour. That and London. London was amazing. All the shows were amazing, but those two stick out.

The Obelisk: Do you guys have anything planned for recording?

JB: We want to be done with the record by September. Try and have it recorded and everything. We’ve been slopping some ideas around. We’re thinking about doing a double record thing, where one record’s an Eyehategod like you would expect and the next record would be more experimental-type stuff that we’ve always wanted to do. Just trying to get all that together within time. You have to set a deadline for yourself or you’ll never get anything done – that’s what we find.

We’re saying by the end of September this thing should be recorded and everything. I think putting that deadline and doing this these shows together and everything has brought us all back together as a group, which is important to me, being able to write around the band, talk about ideas, listen to music together. It gets everybody on the same page. Like you said, it has been 10 years. Obviously, we’re better musicians now, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we have to write math rock. We know what works in this band, and that’s what we’ve been trying to write, stuff like that. It’s been more of a challenge than we thought it would be.

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Quality fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be viewed below:

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words by Kim Kelly,

Kim Kelly knows her (good) metal, and as such, we couldn’t think of a better ambassador than this Philadelphian/writer for Terrorizer / Hails & Horns / Metal Injection. Kim checks in from Roadburn (April 15-18, 2010) in Tilburg, Holland, where she will take in some of the best metal bands currently in existence (and some resurrected from the grave), reporting back on what havoc the riff, and the volcano, hath wrought…

Goatsnake - Roadburn 2010 by Erik Luyten

ROADBURN DIARY – DAY 1 (Thursday, April 15)

The road to Tilburg is a very long one, indeed – at least if you’re coming from the mean streets of Philadelphia. After an 8am flight from Newark that landed at Heathrow at 8pm London time (before the volcano!), a few restless hours of sleep in a hostel (where a very nice Scottish boy had acted as my human alarm clock after I discovered that both my US and UK cell phones weren’t working), an hour-long bus ride to Standsted Airport (chauffeured by a rough-looking lad who spent the trip dancing in his seat to Lady Gaga and singing along under his breath), an hour flight to Eindhoven, twenty minutes on a bus to the city’s central train station, forty minutes on the train to Tilburg, and a five-minute walk with my Terrorizer mates to the Grass Company cafe / weed emporium, I was finally there – the stoned Mecca that is Roadburn.

Continue reading:  Roadburn Festival 2010 kicks off despite the volcano – our Day 1 report includes Goatsnake, Eyehategod, a wedding & more.

Goatsnake

Yob

Jarboe

Sons of Otis

Eagle Twin

Enslaved

Eyehategod

Monkey 3

Shining

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Apr. 01 – John Dee (Inferno Festival) – Oslo, Norway
Apr. 02 – Millenium Music Hall – Cardiff, UK
Apr. 03 – The Academy – Dublin, Ireland
Apr. 04 – The Limelight – Belfast, Ireland
Apr. 05 – Ivory Blacks – Glasgow, Scotland
Apr. 06 – Moho Live – Manchester, UK
Apr. 07 – The Well – Leeds, UK
Apr. 08 – Rock City – Nottingham, UK
Apr. 09 – Asylum – Birmingham, UK
Apr. 10 – ULU – London, UK
Apr. 11 – Minus 1 – Ghent, Belglium
Apr. 12 – Tower – Bremen, Germany
Apr. 13 – Loppen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Apr. 14 – Logo – Hamburg, Germany
Apr. 15 -  013 – Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, Netherlands
Apr. 16 – Le Palot (Impetus Festival) – Montbeliard, France
Apr. 17 – La Romandie (Impetus Festival) – Lausanne, Switzerland
Apr. 19 – Glaz Art – Paris, France
Apr. 20 – Magnolia Club – Milan, Italy
Apr. 21 – Substage – Karlsruhe, Germany
Apr. 22 – Arena – Vienna, Austria

The vinyl version of Eyehategod’s fourth studio album, Confederacy Of Ruined Lives, was released on November 11, 2009 via the vinyl-only imprint I’m Better Than Everyone Records.

Fan-filmed video footage of Eyehategod’s October 23, 2009 performance at Ottobar in Baltimore, Maryland can be viewed below:

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Self-hating riff worshippers rejoice! EYEHATEGOD, the legendary Southern hardcore-blues-sludge-and-doom group from Katrina-ravaged New Orleans has been confirmed for Roadburn Festival 2010. With its hateful, hopeless, anguished vocals set against extra-slow Iommi-inspired riffing, EYEHATEGOD are credited with founding sludge-core, one of the most vital new genres of metal to emerge from the 1990′s.
Countless bands have followed their footsteps, and after almost 20 years of creating some of the most corrosive, vile
music known to man, EYEHATEGOD still hasn’t lost the piss and vinegar, propaganda, and despair that fueled them back in 1998.

United under a war banner of negativity, and set to blast the system with a hardcore punk twist to the N’awlins sound of rebellion and pollution, Outlaw Order (also known as OO%)  is comprised of several members of Nola conspiracists Eyehategod, Soilent Green and Hawgjaw. Outlaw Order is very sonically similar to Eyehategod, and their debut full-length, Draggin Down The Enforcer, has definitely captured the sludgy vibe of the dirty south, fused with a fucked-up, punk sensibility.

Jarboe

Former Swans chanteuse Jarboe has aligned herself with the constantly mutating world of Avant-Metal by her recent collaborations with Neurosis, Cobalt and Jesu. She has also forged her own path with her feminine take on NYC dirge. Heavy, operatic and hypnotic, Jarboe’s hydra-head vocals vary from waif whispers to shrieking litanies, offering sonic violence and succor at the very same time.