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Turning Time Against Itself With MIKE IX From EYEHATEGOD · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Ah. My name is Mate nine, and I'm in a band called I
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  Hate God and we're coming to Australia and New Zealand in July. I don't
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  know the dates off top of my head, but and we're bringing a New
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  Orleans band called Goadhoorr with us, who are awesome. Very good mate,
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  Thanks for joining us today, mate, Yeah, sure, no problem.
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  Good to be here. Lucky for everyone. I've got the dates for us.
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  Bro. So I Hate God returned to Australia and New Zealand this month
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  because for a run of shows starting in Perth on July the twenty third,
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  then hitting Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney before finishing in Brisbane on July the twenty
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  eighth. Then you had to New Zealand for shows in Wellington and Utan.
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  Made like, do you let yourself get excited this far out from a show
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  or do you sort of wait till you're on the plane ready to go and
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  it just saw things in No, I'm excited now. I love Australia.
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  I love coming over there. It's great. You know this will be our
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  fourth time I believe coming over so wow, that's good. It's always the
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  people are great. We have a good time, you know. Yeah,
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  sweet, it's been five years. So it's been five years since your last
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  visit in two thousand and nineteen. Bro, So what's changed with I Hate
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  God since last time? Not much really, I mean we're still in the
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  same band, you know, we're actually well, I think actually in twenty
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  nineteen, though Jimmy Bauer, our guitar player, wasn't with us. He
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  couldn't make the tours, so we had a film and guitarist. But the
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  shows went well and everything went cool. I think people want to see Jimmy
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  though, so he'll be there this time and it'll be great. Yeah.
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  And in that time as well, your album A History of Nomadic Behavior came
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  out as well, bro, So because you haven't played that here before.
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  Are you going to be focusing on that album or is it going to be
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  a mixture of everything. It's a mixture of everything. We do some songs
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  off that record, but most people still want to hear like the older stuff,
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  you know, that's the classic stuff we've done in the nineties, you
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  know, so, but we do throw in stuff off the new records,
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  you know, for sure, the new record of the last two records,
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  So yeah, it'll be a mixture of everything. Oh now, I hope
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  I got my facts rot on this. Otherwise I'm gonna say I'm pretty stupid.
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  But you've named the tour after a song on your two thousand and five
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  album Pretty in Free Message, so that there was no mention of a special
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  occasion in the press release. And it's only nineteen years since that album came
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  out, so it can't be a twentieth anniversary. So why is it to
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  it named after that? Just because we picked that to be the name,
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  that's it. There's no reason for it, right, Yeah. I mean
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  we uh, A lot of things we do don't make any sense, so
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  it's fun. It's also fun to confuse people as well. So but yeah,
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  that's it's just a cool name. We never used it for a tour,
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  so we figured why out. You know, Hey, I thought think
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  it's a great name. I was reading through it. God, yeah,
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  that's cool, and then I was looking through the album It's like, where
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  the hell does it come from? That is cool? Yeah? Yeah,
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  it's from an album that came out in two thousand and three. We did
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  a song called that Yeah, right, that was basically a live album,
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  wasn't it? There was three three originals on there and the rest of the
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  lives. It was a compilation, is what it was. It was like
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  all our seven inches and then some live stuff and you know, just and
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  three new songs that we did on a four track. They don't even like
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  they're not even mastered or mixed or anything. We just did the three new
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  ones like raw as we possibly could. Yes, Well, you're just saying
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  that you like to confuse people, mate, so you're gonna confuse them even
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  more by not playing that song on this tour. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Jimmy doesn't want to play that song, so I wouldn't want to play
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  that song. But maybe maybe we'll learn it by then. But yeah,
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  that is pretty funny. I just realized that, Yeah, maybe maybe we
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  won't learn it for the tour. I don't know. Did you mentioned before
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  that you're bringing the Brutal Goat Hall with you? By right of you?
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  Then the other night, great, great bunch of lads, But why choose
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  amatory partners with you? Uh? They're just old friends of ours and we've
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  been going to shows and playing with their various bands and our various bands since
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  the late eighties, you know, or the early nineties. You know,
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  we've been friends with these guys so and they were in different bands at the
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  time, but Godhoor has now been around for a while. But they're just
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  New Orleans, you know, friends of ours, and we toured with them
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  in America and it went very well. So we're looking forward to doing it
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  again. Oh all righton tell you plus the fact, if you put the
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  two bad names together, you got the foundations for a hell of a tour
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  story. Oh yeah, it's gonna get crazy. It's gonna get it'll definitely
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  get weird at some point. We're just such good frins of these guys and
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  they'll be parties and things that there might be fist fights, but we'll see.
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  I'll put my money on you, brother. When I spoke to him
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  the other day, like, I don't normally ask bans about how they came
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  up with their name, but I had to ask those guys, and the
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  story they gave me was a sensational you know, I don't even know the
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  reason they're called that. I don't even know that. You know, you're
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  going to have to watch my interview with him. Well, yeah, right,
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  I know there's a certific element somewhere in there, but it's got to
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  do with goats and naked women. But I'll leave it at that. That
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  makes total sense. Yeah, I was expecting something like, you know,
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  something a bit more sanitized, so I guess, but he gave me the
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  full fact and it was great. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad he just
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  gave me the honest answer. Well good, all right, So what You've
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  also got some local bands opening at each show with Flight Prison, some Doown,
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  choof Aslo and Defiant Grave, all sort of all getting the chance in
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  their respective local towns. So hats off to you brother, Like it's a
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  good initiative. So many bands come over here and they neglect the local bands,
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  I guess, but it's good to see you give them a chance.
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  No, we you know, we we still have that punk rock ethics,
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  you know that we love to get the local bands done the shows, you
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  know, like give them a chance to play, and then like we we
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  like to check out the local stuff anyway. So it's like gone to old
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  school with that, you know, Hey, good only blets they Hats off
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  to your brother. There's so many bands come over here for one reason or
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  another, local bands don't get a look in. But I've got spoken to
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  some of them personally, and the excitement and these bands and the things it
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  does for their their confidence. I guess it's it's bands like you guys go
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  home and these guys live with that for the rest of their life. Bro,
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  So hats off, no, And they're all these guys that are helping
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  to promote the shows too. They're posting about it and all this stuff.
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  So it's going to get more people out. So it's a good thing,
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  all right, bray we I would want to go back to the early days,
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  like for the band. So you started in New Orleans back in nineteen
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  eighty eight, So what was a musical climate like the kame Birth I Hate
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  God and where did you fit in back in the old days. We didn't
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  fit in at all. People hated us, people couldn't stand us. We
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  had a very few fans locally. The climate back then was mostly still thrash
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  metal, you know, like bands doing the Exodus Slayer type of thing or
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  I mean, there was a lot of different styles, but there was,
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  you know, some hardcore punk bands and then there was like the thrash stuff,
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  you know, so there wasn't a lot new going on at the time.
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  I guess industrial stuff was kind of happening too, but like the dance
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  or stuff like that. But we just, you know, we were big
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  fans, you know, Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath and Black Flag and all
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  these bands, so we were like, we let's just do that. That's
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  what we wanted to do. We all were in other bands at the time,
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  so this was like our side project, you know. So we didn't
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  take it that series in the beginning because we all had other bands that we
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  were doing. So this became the biggest out of any of our other bands.
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  So it's pretty strange that we're still doing it thirty six years later,
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  thirty five years later or whatever. Okay, that's awesome. Yeah, that's
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  all. You mentioned bands before like Black Plague and Black Sabbath, and there's
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  also others like the Melvins. There's crazy to conform all these bands that influence
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  you, guys, but you've definitely created a sound of your own from it.
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  So this is a question well for your bands bands coming through bright but
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  like when you are coming up and trying to create your own sound from the
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  influencers, like how fond of a line is there between imitation and inspiration?
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  And where do you draw that line. I mean it definitely in the beginning
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  we would play like a couple of Melvin's rifts, you know, and just
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  to see where it was going. But uh, I think that comes down
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  to like Jimmy Bauer's like creativity, you know, and uh and our drummer
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  you know who he passed away, Joey. They had a very creative way
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  of doing the stuff that we wanted to do and kind of combining it all
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  along with the punk rock thing too, like the Melvins type stuff with the
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  punk stuff and the hardcore stuff and even some like noisy stuff with all the
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  feedback. You know. They just were very creative and putting that all together.
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  So hopefully it didn't sound derivative or you know. I mean, we
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  don't hide our influences. We tell people, like, you know, what's
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  influences, so they can probably pick out something here or there and know that
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  it's, you know, influenced by certain bands. But we definitely don't want
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  to copy anyone. We wanted to be one percent original, you know.
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  Yeah. Ther music's also got a massive blues influence, especially with the guitars.
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  Bro Like a lot of people would not or appreciate the fact, but
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  blues does have a very good history with hav you metaled on that, Yeah,
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  of course. I mean it's a blues based music, and you know
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  rock and roll is blues based anyway, so it all comes together for me.
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  But we we listened to a lot of you know, like Lightnin' Hopkins
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  and John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt and all these bands. We love
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  that stuff so and being from the South where we're from New Orleans, you
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  know, you hear a lot of that, you know, coming out of
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  clubs and bars and stuff, so it definitely influenced us. Yeah, it's
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  a great, great amalgamation of stalls, Brian. Like I said, you
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  put it all together and it comes out definitely your own. But there's stuff
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  in there that people wouldn't even think should go together, but when it does,
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  it's just fucking magic. Oh thanks man. Yeah, I mean there's
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  even the southern rock thing too, because we're huge Leonard skinnerd fans, you
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  know. Yeah, so there's like riffs here and there, little little parts
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  that definitely influenced by Leonard Skinner and the southern rock stuff, you know,
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  which we all grew up with. Also, you know we've speaken before about
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  your last album, A History of Nomadic Behavior, which came out in twenty
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  twenty one. So have you started work on the follow up you made or
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  have you just been busy touring. We just been touring a lot. But
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  I know those guys are writing some new stuff, you know, so I
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  think they've got a couple things put together, but nothing fully formed yet.
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  You know, it always takes us a long time in between albums to get
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  the next one done. I mean, this one was was this the last
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  one? It took a long time between the last two albums, and it
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  seems to always take that. But well, we won't get something out eventually,
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  you know, we're definitely right. Yeah yeah, But when you do
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  get to help people know it's going to be quality because you haven't rushed it
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  too. So it's a win win. Well, that's part of it.
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  That's what I like to tell people. It's like, we're not one of
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  these bands that like tours then go in the studio and writes it in the
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  studio. We you know, we like to take our time and write and
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  sit with it. That way too, You get to sit with the songs
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  for a while. And you get to know them better and if you start
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  to not like it, you may change something when you go in the studio
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  or you know. So it's good to sit with it like that, Dame
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  Spender, right, Michael, Thanks very much for your time today, Bro,
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  it's been a pleasure chatting with you. I Hate are in Australia from
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  July twenty thirty Perth, all around the country, including New Zealand with a
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  fantastic code hole. So until then, brother, you take care. Yes,
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  thanks for the interview and we'll see you later. We'll see you soon.