Interview: Mike ‘IX’ Williams of Eyehategod on Escaping the Pandemic and Embracing the Blues
Thanks for taking the time to chat with New Noise, Mike. I meant to ask, is this the US New Noise, or the one from France? I meant to ask because when I was looking at my calendar I thought I double-booked myself. This comes up a lot with international artists actually. We’re the US one. We’re not at all connected with the one in France. Did they get in touch with you about your new album too?Yeah, they did. Which of you came first? We did. We’re the first, and the best. That’s like having a band name that you share with another band. You just have to be the better band. Make people forget the other one. You have to be the one that everybody likes.Exactly. So when you were on tour last year, did you run into an Eyehategod France?[Laughs] No, not yet. We probably wil...