This is the first album from the Kings of New Orleans Sludge in fourteen years. In that time the band has been through the ringer and still managed to keep a profile alive throughout the underground. EHG is an incestuous outfit with members playing for other high profile bands such as Down and Soilent Green.This is the first album from the Kings of New Orleans Sludge in fourteen years. In that time the band has been through the ringer and still managed to keep a profile alive throughout the underground. EHG is an incestuous outfit with members playing for other high profile bands such as Down and Soilent Green. The band released 4 well received albums between 1992 and 2000 as well as a slew of 7"s with the likes of Anal C**t and 13. Between 2005 and now the band have continued to play live in-between their other projects. Fourteen years on and the first notes of the record are the trademark EHG feedback tones and straight into the D-Beat driven "Agitation!Propaganda!" with Mike Williams delivering a bile ridden vocal line. This speed and immediacy is offset by the slow tortured bluesy riffs of songs like "Robitussin and Rejection". The songs are still harrowing and deliver the agony that they have traded on so well for 20+ years; however it seems tighter and more controlled than earlier efforts. Don't get me wrong they haven't gone soft just perhaps trimmed back the chaos a bit. There is still plenty pissed off and depraved screaming [...]
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