Eyehategod took 14 years to complete their follow-up to 2000’s Confederacy Of Ruined Lives, but when they came back, they were hitting harder than ever before. The opening “Agitation! Propaganda!” perfectly captures the anarchic blend of hardcore, noise and metal that Black Flag pioneered in the mid ’80s; it’s pure nastiness. The rest of the album musters that same hostility, but filters it through swampy, sludgy blues grooves, with bassist Gary Mader and drummer Joe LaCaze keeping the loose-seeming rhythms on track as guitarists Jimmy Bower and Brian Patton riff in unison and Mike Williams howls his poetry of alienation. The production is cleaner than on Dopesick or Take As Needed For Pain, but that only adds to the music’s power. Honestly, if you’re new to their work, you could start here.