Released November 22, 1993 Length 49:34 Artist Eyehategod Producer Eyehategod Genre Sludge metal | Recorded Studio 13, New Orleans Take as Needed for Pain
(1993) Dopesick
(1996) Release date 22 November 1993 Label Century Media Records | |
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Eyehategod take as needed for pain full album
Take as Needed for Pain is the second album by American sludge metal band Eyehategod, released on November 22, 1993. It was reissued in 2006 as part of Century Media's 20th Anniversary series of reissues, with 6 bonus tracks, taken from rare 7" records and splits.
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Eyehategod take as needed for pain
Background and recording
After being signed to Century Media in the early 1990s, the band began to self-record and produce their first album for the label, and second album total, in Studio 13. Studio 13 was a small recording studio located on the 13th floor of an abandoned department store located in New Orleans, about a few minutes away from where Mike Williams was living.
Reception
Take as Needed for Pain has received praise since it's 1993 release, and is considered by many as one of the band's best albums. According to Mike Williams, it was the favorite album of nearly all band members, and his favorite album title, with the exception of Poison Idea's Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes
In 2009, the album was chosen as the number 1 sludge album by Terrorizer. The magazine commented that
In 2016, Metal Hammer named the album in their list "The 10 Essential Sludge Albums", stating the album "raised the bar".
Track listing
All lyrics written by Mike Williams; all music composed by Jimmy Bower, Joey LaCaze, Marc Schultz, Brian Patton & Mike Williams.
Personnel
Songs
1Blank7:06
2Sister Fucker - Part I2:09
3Shop Lift3:14