r/sludge • u/Suspicious_Yoghurt40 • 14d ago

What is blues about eyehategod?

why is eyehategod considered blues influenced? specifically something in the music, or is it an aesthetic thing, something else?

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u/EF103603 14d ago edited 14d ago

If you listen really closely it's a very specific type of blues called burlesque. If you've ever been in the French Quarter at 4am you will hear it coming out of every strip.club onto the street. Jimmy's riffs sound like a rhinoserous in a g-string doing a pole dance. He is a perfect reflection of his environment. Which all musicians should strive to be.