![]() They are excited for the opportunity to open for Eyehategod and Goatwhore, two bands they hold in high regard. They are currently planning the release of their debut EP, which was recorded with Gabe Usery at Encapsulated Studios, a sound engineer known for his work with St. Hot Corpse released a two-song demo recording, Summer Demo, in July 2022, which is currently available on streaming and their Bandcamp page. Louis metal and hardcore projects, including Path of Might, Mystic Will, and Life Sucks. Its members have connections to several other St. Formed in October 2021, the band consists of guitarists Mike Highfill and Nick Muckerman, bassist Derek Rife, drummer Josh Skibar, and vocalist Erik Oxnard. Local support for the show will come courtesy of Hot Corpse, whose fusion of speed metal and hardcore punk should be a fitting aperitif for Goatwhore. They have played Pop’s six times since 2002, and also played twice at the Creepy Crawl, the now-closed downtown music club that was located at Tucker and Washington (RIP). The upcoming tour with Eyehategod will be their first time playing in St. Goatwhore is also notable for its connections to many other great Louisiana metal acts: guitarist Sammy Duet was in both Acid Bath and Crowbar, and Ben Falgoust is also the vocalist for Soilent Green. They are currently touring in support of their most recent album, Angels Hung from the Arches of Heaven, which was released in October of last year. ![]() The band plays a breakneck fusion of black, death, and thrash metal, combining the blasphemous themes, speed, and raw intensity of all three genres into one mighty potent gumbo. ![]() Formed in 1996, Goatwhore consists of guitarist Sammy Duet, vocalist Ben Falgoust, drummer Zack Simmons, and bassist Nathan Bergeron. Joining Eyehategod on their upcoming tour are fellow New Oleanders Goatwhore, the band whose name just gets better every time you say it. Louis, also at Red Flag, on April 15th, 2022 they have also headlined multiple shows at Fubar and Pop’s over the years. This Thursday’s show at Red Flag will mark almost a year to the day since the band’s last performance in St. Although the band has only released six studio albums over their 30+ years together, they have toured nationally or internationally virtually every year since the release of their first album, In the Name of Suffering, in 1992. The band’s lineup for the upcoming tour will consist of Eyehategod’s two remaining original members-vocalist Mike “IX” Williams and guitarist Jimmy Bower-as well as bassist Gary Mader, who joined the band in 2001, and drummer Aaron Hill, who joined in 2013. Few albums have so vividly expressed the lived reality of suffering greatly in the land of opportunity, and the album’s message resonates powerfully to this day. Every song on Take as Needed for Pain paints a disturbed portrait of people living far beyond the margins of society, their minds and bodies ravaged from the years of abuse, humiliation, and self-medication the album title insinuates (“Breast fed from a dog/Since the day I was born/Severe allergic infection/Narcotic induced hypothermia,” from the title track). As innovative as the music itself was, Eyehategod’s utterly nihilistic worldview, communicated through the unsettling, abstract lyrics and inimitable (and often unintelligible) vocal stylings of Mike “IX” Williams.
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