The road to the new Eyehategod album has been a hard one for the band. Vocalist Mike Williams needed and received a new liver in 2016, longtime guitarist Brian Patton left the band, and remaining guitarist Jimmy Bower had some sort of medical issue. Still, the band persisted and has been out on the road quite a bit while working on new music.
Williams tells the Rock & Roll Beer Guy podcast the band had planned to record vocals this year, but hit a snag with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis closing studios.
"Eyehategod was gonna take this time off anyway. We'd been touring for, like, three years straight, basically, and we were gonna take the rest of this year off. 'Cause I have vocals to do for the new record, and this was supposed to be the time to do that. But now the studios are closed, and it's been really hard to figure all that out. But it will get done hopefully sooner than later."
The new Eyehategod album will be their first since Eyehategod in 2014.
