����� Another classic slab of hateful, soul-rotted sludge reissued by Century Media, this new vinyl edition of Eyehategod's vile second album definitely hits the spot.

����� EYEHATEGOD. The mere mention sets nerve endings aflame and makes skin crawl with pestilence. The masters from New Orleans that first blended together Black Sabbath's doomed grooves and Southern blues-rock with the violent power of hardcore. Total innovators, the band responsible for all that is sludgy and feedback soaked, blazing the path of the slow, stoned and ugly for bands like Iron Monkey, Weedeater, Cavity, Grief, Corrupted, Fleshpress, Bongzilla, Khanate, you name 'em. Every single one of their albums is essential to disciples of the sludge. And it was about time that Century Media gave their early 90's releases a deluxe re-issue, especially the somewhat hard to find seminal second album Take As Needed For Pain from 1993. Everything that defined In The Name Of Suffering's diseased heaviosity is present here: the corrosive, gooey downtuned riffage, Mike William's indecipherable ranting, the howling feedback that seems to start and close every single song, and the band's overall mood of abject nihilism.

����� But Take As Needed For Pain was also the first Eyehategod album to really incorporate the swingin', Sabbathian swamp-blues that the band would make their trademark, delivering an unstoppable series of riffs that are as memorable and catchy as sludgy, drugged-out metal can get, and even occasionally breaking into swinging mid-tempo Southern rock grooves that offset the album's relentless tarpit pounding. And grim looped sound collages are used to bookend several of the tracks, which further add to the filthy, human-hating vibe that permeates the album. A dark, dingy trudge through drug abuse, swamp metal debauchery, and caustic feedback. Absolutely CRUCIAL. If you're a fan of doom metal, sludgecore, and all things slow, sludgy, and HEAVY, this is a must-own. It's pretty much essential to EHG fans that own the original too, as this re-issue includes three tracks from the long out of print Ruptured Heart Theory 7" EP, the track from the out of print split 7" with sludgecrust-queens 13 on Slap-A-Ham Records, and two tracks from another split 7" with 13 that came out on Ax/ction Records, and is presented with revised artwork and brand new liner notes from Eyehategod's vocalist Mike Williams. Again, essential.