Every Eyehategod album shares a few main ingredients in common: the slow, sludgy guitars, the indecipherable ranting of vocalist Michael Williams, the moaning feedback that introduces nearly every song, and the relentlessly bitter, broken-down mood.
Take as Needed for Pain has all of that, but it is also the first to really bring out the Southern/blues-rock and Black Sabbath influences in full force.
Compared to the rougher In the Name of Suffering, the guitars here are warmer and thicker sounding, while the actual riffs are much more distinguished and in some cases even catchy.
There are also moments when they break into a swinging, mid-tempo Southern rock groove, which helps offset the slow pounding that otherwise predominates.
Not counting the couple of looped spoken word collages, there isn't a whole lot to distinguish the tracks from one another.
By the time it ends, the album just blurs into a big mound of corrosive, swampy doom metal riffage.
But they sure do it well, and their conviction is hard to deny.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shop LiftJim Bower, Joe LaCaze, Brian Patton, M. Williams | Eyehategod | Play | 03:13 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 2 | White NiggerJim Bower, Joe LaCaze, Brian Patton, M. Williams | Eyehategod | Play | 03:53 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 3 | 30$ BagJim Bower, Joe LaCaze, Brian Patton, M. Williams | Eyehategod | Play | 02:47 | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| 4 | DisturbanceEyehategod | Eyehategod | Play | 06:55 | 15 MB | 31 MB |
| 5 | Crimes Against SkinJim Bower, Joe LaCaze, Brian Patton, M. Williams | Eyehategod | Play | 06:45 | 15 MB | 47 MB |
| 6 | Kill Your BossJim Bower, Joe LaCaze, Brian Patton, M. Williams | Eyehategod | Play | 04:12 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 7 | Laugh It OffJim Bower, Joe LaCaze, Brian Patton, M. Williams | Eyehategod | Play | 01:32 | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| 8 | Pigs | EyeHateGod | Play | 02:59 | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| 9 | Run It Into The Ground | EyeHateGod | Play | 03:11 | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| 10 | Blank | EyeHateGod | Play | 07:04 | 16 MB | 48 MB |
| 11 | Sister Fucker [Part I] | EyeHateGod | Play | 02:08 | 4 MB | 15 MB |
| 12 | Who Gave Her The Rises | EyeHateGod | Play | 01:56 | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| 46 mins | 107 MB | |||||
| 46 mins | 302 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jim Bower | Composer |
| 2 | The Brain | Strings |
| 3 | Eyehategod | Composer, Primary Artist |
| 4 | Joe LaCaze | Composer |
| 5 | Robinson Mills | Engineer |
| 6 | Brian Patton | Composer |
| 7 | M. Williams | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |