Confederacy of Ruined Lives

Eyehategod | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2000)
• Original Release Date: September 19, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B00004XSOM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,285 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take if you need an overdose of feedback & sludge!!!, October 4, 2000

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"[e-mail]" (Greer, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Audio CD)

The sludgemiesters are back & better than ever! Confederacy just blows your head off with a very slight increase in speed and intensity. The best song is "Inferior and Full of Anxiety" which has such a jerky tempo it makes your brain squirm. If you like EHG, buy this album damit!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars new decibel magazine dumps on this, September 2, 2004

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E. Roberts "ia" (Canton, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Audio CD)

so it inspired me to go clear some things up for anybody checking out this album as a result of it(author of 'choosing death's new magazine). they claim that after the long hiatus between dopesick and this album, they released the worst album of their careers. maybe, but this album still rules and i can't compare it to their debut cuz i haven't gotten it in the mail yet.

plain and simple, it kills. revolution/revelation will get you pumped up and ready to smash things. the following tracks after that will make you want to smash things too. few bands are as groovy, sludgey, nihilistically pissed off, and just plain good as eyehategod. that's about all you need to know.

i should note that after the feedback interlude in the middle of the album, it's over for me as my mind has drifted onto other things. the songs after that aren't bad, they're still better than a lot of sludgebands but even as i write this i can't recall the riffs. it doesn't really bother me though, because i feel i've already gotten my money's worth after the first half.

at any rate, if you're a fan of sludge or are getting into it, don't let a couple of downer opinions stop you from checking out one of, if not the most prominent names in what could be considered 'sludge metal/doom'. my favorite EHG songs are strewn across all bodies of their work so if you're looking for a suggestion as to where to start, i suppose 'take as needed for pain', then 'dopesick' or 'confederacy of ruined lives'.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Eyehategod still as sick as ever, October 4, 2000

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Amazon.com Customer (Birmingham, AL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confederacy of Ruined Lives (Audio CD)

Eyehategod return with a new full-length that doesn't stray far from the territory they pioneered. These New Orleans-based sludge fiends continue to pound out down-tuned feedback-laden riffage from the land of all that is Tony Iommi. The production and execution are somewhat cleaner than past efforts, but those previous offerings were never clean at all. Not for the weak at heart whatsoever.