In the Name of Suffering is Sludge metal

Sludge metal

Sludge metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that melds elements of doom metal and hardcore punk, and sometimes incorporates influences from southern rock, stoner rock and grunge. Sludge metal is typically abrasive; often featuring shouted vocals, heavily distorted instruments and sharply contrasting...

 band Eyehategod

Eyehategod

Eyehategod is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans who formed in 1988. They have become one of the most well known bands to emerge from the NOLA metal scene...

's debut album, released on December 1, 1992. The album was originally released on French

France

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 label Intellectual Convulsion, but only 1500-2000 copies were pressed of this release before the label disappeared. They were then picked up by Century Media, who promptly rereleased the album. It was again rereleased in 2006 as part of Century Media's 20th Anniversary series of reissues with 4 bonus tracks take from the band's 1990 demo Lack of Almost Everything (these recordings are however available on their live album

Live album

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, 10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke)

10 Years of Abuse (and Still Broke)

10 Years of Abuse is the title of Sludge metal band Eyehategod's only live album, released on May 29, 2001. Although not all the tracks are live, it is still considered a live album, as the majority of tracks are live, and there are no studio tracks...

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Track listing

1. "Depress" – 4:58
2. "Man Is Too Ignorant to Exist" – 2:37
3. "Shinobi" – 5:15
4. "Pigs" – 2:59
5. "Run it Into the Ground" – 3:10
6. "Godsong" – 2:44
7. "Children of God" – 3:10
8. "Left to Starve" – 3:09
9. "Hostility Dose" – 2:43
10. "Hit a Girl" – 4:18
11. "Left to Starve (Demo Version
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    )" – 4:06
12. "Hit a Girl (Demo Version)" – 4:12
13. "Depress (Demo Version)" – 7:34
14. "Children of God (Demo Version)" – 3:46

Tracks 11-14 taken from the band's 1990 demo, Lack of Almost Everything.

Credits

• Mike Williams
  Mike Williams (singer)
  Mike IX Williams is the singer for Eyehategod and former associate editor for Metal Maniacs. He has also worked on other projects.-Eyehategod:Mike was invited to join Eyehategod by Jimmy Bower in 1988...
  
   – Vocals
• Jimmy Bower
  Jimmy Bower
  Jimmy Bower is an American sludge/heavy metal guitarist and drummer who has played with six bands, most notably Eyehategod, Crowbar, Down, and Superjoint Ritual....
  
   – Guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Mark Schultz - Guitar
• Steve Dale – Bass
  Bass guitar
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• Joe LaCaze – Drums
  Drum kit
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