EYEHATEGOD New Orleans Is The New Vietnam 7" VINYL (A389 Records) 9.99Ever since dropping the compilation of odds and ends Preaching the End-Time Message in 2005, fans of legendary New Orleans sludgecore titans Eyehategod have been lusting for new music from the band, who have been increasingly busy over the past few years touring and playing festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. Now that there finally appears to be a brand new album in the works, the band has puked up this one-song single to give us a quick fix of what they've got cookin'. This one-sided 7" has an etching of the Eyehategod sigil on the b-side, and features the ominously titled "New Orleans Is The New Vietnam", a song that you may have heard them play live if you've caught any of their recent performances. This blast of swamp-hate picks right up where the band left off with 2000's Confederacy Of Ruined Lives, bludgeoning you with another crushing fusion of lead-heavy Sabbathian riffage and feral hardcore punk, slipping in a serpentine blooze hook into the lurching stop-start heaviness. Singer Mike IX sounds as desperate and laryngetic as ever, puking up a torrent of nihilistic, misanthropic rage and sweaty visions of a dystopian, lawless New Orleans that has been transformed into a napalm-scorched death zone. After twenty four years, these guys sound as monstrous and diseased as ever, and leave us drooling for an entire album...
Comes in a full-color jacket.