Dopesick - Eyehategod

A word to the wise: I review old albums because A) people may not have heard them and they are classic and B) newer metal is lame and wears girl jeans. Get used to it.

One video explains this album:


This album is a classic. Hands down, it is the grungiest, heroin-iest, depressing album made of all time. It makes you want to shoot drain cleaner and tune your guitar to drop-Z. Pure Sabbath worship, alternating between the rolling blues jam and the funeral dirge. This is electric blues at its finest and stands the test of time as a sludgy classic. The standout tracks:

"My Name is God (I Hate You)" - Yes, he really does. Listen to this and you'll know why. Long and punctuated with a really bitchin' blues pentatonic scale run going at a truck's pace

"Lack of Almost Everything" - Picking up the pace a little bit, the fast passages break down into a wave of nauseated, atonal chords that are like smoking ground up roadkill

"Anxiety Hangover" - As the video shows above, this is the end of the world song. It's as if someone took utter hopeless anguish, froze it, and chiseled it into guitar strings and shoved the shavings down Mike Williams' throat.

Overall, this album is one I ALWAYS recommend to people. The first time I listened to this was after my ex-girlfriend and I parted ways and I was driving down a road in pouring rain in the middle of nowhere feeling lost. Most people would have chosen something fun but I was at that point where your psyche is at breaking-point and ready to snap. The only cure for that sometimes is to plunge further into your anger and hurt and stare it dead in the eyes to master it. Thinking of the moment I got the call that ended it, the feedback on "Anxiety Hangover" erupted into a volcano of sound burning everything in its path. To this day, it is the album that is perfect for days when you want to brood and hate the world; take with caution, however, as it can make you caustic and surly for the rest of the week. Now, let's hear what Bas Ruten has to say: