Dopesick
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| Studio album by Eyehategod | ||||||||||
| Released | April 2, 1996 | |||||||||
| Recorded | Autumn/Winter 1995 | |||||||||
| Studio | Side One Studios New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Genre | Sludge metal | |||||||||
| Length | 37:47 | |||||||||
| Label | Century Media | |||||||||
| Producer | Billy Anderson, Eyehategod | |||||||||
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Dopesick is the third studio album by the American sludge metal band Eyehategod, released on April 2, 1996. It was reissued in 2006 as part of Century Media's 20th Anniversary series with three bonus tracks that were recorded during the original Dopesick recording sessions.
After the release of Take as Needed for Pain, Eyehategod's previous album, the band recorded several demos, which were released on various 7" records and splits on various labels, before finally settling down in autumn of 1995 to record a full-length record, Dopesick. The album featured Billy Anderson and Pepper Keenan as producer and co-producer respectively and new bassist Vince LeBlanc. It was recorded at Side One Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana so Mike Williams had to travel often between there and Clinton Hill, Brooklyn in New York City, where he was living at the time.
The recording sessions were infamously chaotic, and involved the studio owner reportedly calling Century Media to ask if the band was mentally unstable, and threatening to kick them out. This particular incident occurred after Mike Williams had attempted to record the sound of smashing glass for the introduction to the album, by smashing a bottle on the floor of the studio. In the process, he slashed open his hand and bled all over the studio floor; this recording did make it to the record as the introduction to the first track, "My Name Is God (I Hate You)." One of the band members then apparently smeared the words "Hell" and "Death to Pigs" in Williams' blood.
The album's recording finished during the winter of 1995. After the completion of the LP, Brian Patton and Joey LaCaze flew out to San Francisco, California to mix the album at Hyde Street Studio with Billy Anderson, who would be the album's engineer also.
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