New Orleans’ EYEHATEGOD is the snarling, bilious sound of dead-end America. Since 1988, they’vebeen a soundtrack for the troubled masses. Ugly music for ugly times. That’s the sense ofdisenchantment and disease that lies the heart of their latest and sixth full-length album,A History ofNomadic Behavior. Anyone familiar with EHG’s story knows this is survivor’s music, a sound unto itselfwhere Sabbathian riffs are meted out with a caustic anger that goes beyond punk. That’s been theblueprint since guitarist Jimmy Bower (also of NOLA supergroup, Down) founded the band in 1988 withvocalist Michael IX Williams joining not long after. With a discography including sludge-punk mainstayslikeIn the Name of Suffering(1990),Take as Needed for Pain(1993) Dopesick (1996) or 2014’seponymously-titled LP, released in the US through Housecore Records, EHG laid the cracked foundationfor their infamous and influential sound.A History of Nomadic Behaviorfinds the band, now slimmed to afour-piece rounded out bybassist Gary Mader and drummer Aaron Hill, leaner and meaner than ever;road-hardened by recent tours with Black Label Society, Corrosion of Conformity and Napalm Death inthe US and abroad. From the bitter pill of opener “Built Beneath the Lies” to the hypnotic haze of closer“Every Thing, Every Day” it’s clear that that EYEHATEGOD hasn’t slowed or mellowed with time. In fact,it’s quite the opposite. This is disorienting, uneasy listening. Music that still very much hurts