“Broken bones crumble as you fight for your life.” Of all the bands that metabolized the post-mortem pastiche of Eyehategod‘s insurmountable drug- and booze-fed misery, Grief always struck me as the most literal. Maybe it was the cover of 1993 edition of Dismal: a strip-cut black-and-white photo of a child squatting solemnly on the wreckage of his young life. Maybe it was how they stripped away some of Eyehategod’s more southern stylings, leaving enough of those bluesy runs intact for the influence to be unmistakable but not a direct copy. Records like Come to Grief and Miserably Ever After are, somehow, bleaker … Continue reading When Rotten Ideas Break Free: Miserably Ever After’s Multiple Fatalities