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Mike IX Williams
Michael D. Williams, known professionally as Mike IX Williams (pronounced "Mike 'Nine' Williams"), is an American vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of New Orleans–based sludge metal band Eyehategod. He is the former associate editor of heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs and has also worked on other projects.
Williams' vocal offerings have been characterized as "tortured laryngitis screams."
Williams was born in High Point, North Carolina. His parents died when he was a child. At the age of 15, he left home. During most part of his life he has lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, but he also lived some time in New York City. He began attending punk rock shows and using drugs at this age. He recalled: "Yeah, man; I was a teenager back in the old days, going to see Black Flag, Misfits, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, that was my teenage years, doing all that stuff. The wild stuff came with that. That was back in the ’80s."
Williams was invited to join Eyehategod by Jimmy Bower in 1988. Since then, all of the band's albums have featured his vocals which have been described as "tortured laryngitis screams", an "indecipherable ranting", and "the utmost sickening, puke-ridden audio atrocities that could actually prove deadly if taken in large doses".
For the recording of Dopesick, Eyehategod's third album, Williams went through several issues. At the time, he was living in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn in New York City so he had to travel between there and New Orleans, Louisiana frequently for the recording sessions, which took place at Side One Studios. He attempted to record the sound of smashing glass for the introduction to the album, by smashing a bottle on the floor of the studio. In the process, Williams slashed his hand open badly and bled all over the studio floor. One of the band members then apparently smeared the words "Hell" and "Death to Pigs" in his blood. The studio owner reportedly called Century Media to ask if the band were insane, and threatened to kick them out because of this.
Williams is solely responsible for the band's lyrics and themes, maintaining a collection of pre-written lyrics that he selects to complement the compositions of his bandmates in Eyehategod. His lyrics never try to portray anything, they never have a story attached to them. Sometimes he works with the musical atmosphere created by his bandmates.
During his first years as an Eyehategod member, Williams was in two other bands: Drip, a sludge metal band, which also featured fellow Eyehategod band members Jimmy Bower and Brian Patton, and Crawlspace.
In 2006, he began a hardcore punk band along with Phil Anselmo named Arson Anthem, in which he is the vocalist. Williams stated in 2008 that his desire with this band is to make people explore early hardcore punk.
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Mike IX Williams
Michael D. Williams, known professionally as Mike IX Williams (pronounced "Mike 'Nine' Williams"), is an American vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of New Orleans–based sludge metal band Eyehategod. He is the former associate editor of heavy metal magazine Metal Maniacs and has also worked on other projects.
Williams' vocal offerings have been characterized as "tortured laryngitis screams."
Williams was born in High Point, North Carolina. His parents died when he was a child. At the age of 15, he left home. During most part of his life he has lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, but he also lived some time in New York City. He began attending punk rock shows and using drugs at this age. He recalled: "Yeah, man; I was a teenager back in the old days, going to see Black Flag, Misfits, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, that was my teenage years, doing all that stuff. The wild stuff came with that. That was back in the ’80s."
Williams was invited to join Eyehategod by Jimmy Bower in 1988. Since then, all of the band's albums have featured his vocals which have been described as "tortured laryngitis screams", an "indecipherable ranting", and "the utmost sickening, puke-ridden audio atrocities that could actually prove deadly if taken in large doses".
For the recording of Dopesick, Eyehategod's third album, Williams went through several issues. At the time, he was living in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn in New York City so he had to travel between there and New Orleans, Louisiana frequently for the recording sessions, which took place at Side One Studios. He attempted to record the sound of smashing glass for the introduction to the album, by smashing a bottle on the floor of the studio. In the process, Williams slashed his hand open badly and bled all over the studio floor. One of the band members then apparently smeared the words "Hell" and "Death to Pigs" in his blood. The studio owner reportedly called Century Media to ask if the band were insane, and threatened to kick them out because of this.
Williams is solely responsible for the band's lyrics and themes, maintaining a collection of pre-written lyrics that he selects to complement the compositions of his bandmates in Eyehategod. His lyrics never try to portray anything, they never have a story attached to them. Sometimes he works with the musical atmosphere created by his bandmates.
During his first years as an Eyehategod member, Williams was in two other bands: Drip, a sludge metal band, which also featured fellow Eyehategod band members Jimmy Bower and Brian Patton, and Crawlspace.
In 2006, he began a hardcore punk band along with Phil Anselmo named Arson Anthem, in which he is the vocalist. Williams stated in 2008 that his desire with this band is to make people explore early hardcore punk.