Monday, February 21st, 2011 at 10:30am by MetalSucks
Eyehategod — one of the filthiest, scummiest, most legitimately and awesomely fucked-up bands to ever walk the earth — played the Sonar in Baltimore, MD last Thursday night, and MetalSucks’ own Queen of Photography, Alyssa Lorenzon, was there to capture the madness. These pictures are so intimate you can practically smell the weed on Jimmy Bower’s breath. Check out all of Alyssa’s awesome pics after the jump! And don’t forget that you can watch a video of Eyehategod playing a new song live right here.
Here’s the thing about Ray Mazzola, vocalist for New York’s own Full Blown Chaos: the guy has a natural born gift for storytelling. I learned this back in February, when I was lucky enough to be invited to dinner with the members of Soilent Green, music video auteur extraordinaire David Brodsky, and Allie Woest, Brodsky’s partner/producer/sometimes editor/general right hand. Full Blown Chaos were on a temporary hiatus from touring at the time (a hiatus which, their fans will be pleased to know, is now over), and so Ray joined us, and within seconds of sitting at the table, he was trading war stories from the road with Soilent Green/Crowbar drummer Tommy Buckley. And, as nice a guy as Buckley is and as many good stories as he had to tell, he just couldn’t keep up with Ray; I won’t repeat any of Ray’s stories second hand ’cause I could never do them justice, so I’ll just say that I can never again hear Napalm Death’s “The Code is Red” without bursting into hysterical laughter.
So after dinner I interviewed Soilent Green guitarist Brian Patton (and some of the dudes from Car Bomb, who also showed up at some point), and then Ray was cool enough to sit down and let me pick his brain for a little while – and to share one of his special stories with our readers. To say that the story is a doozy would be to put it mildly. Little wonder this dude is such a charismatic front man.
Above, watch the David Brodsky-directed video for Full Blown Chaos’ “Halos for Heroes,” from their album Heavy Lies the Crown; after the jump, read the full transcript of my conversation with Ray.
Eyehategod — one of the filthiest, scummiest, most legitimately and awesomely fucked-up bands to ever walk the earth — played the Sonar in Baltimore, MD last Thursday night, and MetalSucks’ own Queen of Photography, Alyssa Lorenzon, was there to capture the madness. These pictures are so intimate you can practically smell the weed on Jimmy Bower’s breath. Check out all of Alyssa’s awesome pics after the jump! And don’t forget that you can watch a video of Eyehategod playing a new song live right here.
