NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou (Full Noisey Documentary)

I remember picking up Down’s “Nola” at the insistence of my local record store owner when I was like maybe 15 or 16. He knew I was a metal head kid and that day I walked in and he was like “you don’t need to even look around the shop today, I’ve got something perfect for you”. I asked what it was a he told me it was like a supergroup with the Pantera guy at the helm. I was like “hell yeah, love Pantera” and he told me “doesn’t matter this is something even better”. I took the CD out to my car and literally sat and listened top to bottom from the shop to my house and finished sitting in my driveway. I was blown away and immediately obsessed. I went to my room and put it on my stereo and played it at least 2 or 3 more times that night. I miss days like that where you could just implicitly trust your record store guy and find great music. Down has remained one of my favorite bands all these years later. I’ve seen posts about them making new music and I couldn’t be more excited.

Needed more Acid Bath. Those 2 albums are prefect.

Phil sitting there barefoot and telling stories...he looks like somekind of Bilbo Sludgins of Louisiana.

Eyehategod - Dopesick and Take As Needed For Pain are ESSENTIALS

I’ll admit this shamelessly. I’ve watched this documentary like 50 times by now. Sometimes sober, sometimes not so sober. Great music, great interviews, great scene. Glad someone caught this and documented it. Would love an eventual part two (follow up doc) one day.

I don't listen to Nola music anywhere near as much as I should do. It's like the home cooking of heavy music. Pepper is so grounded and is the biggest unsung hero of the Nola scene. ✌️much love from Australia.

Ive watched this millions of times man. Never gets old or redundant. Great Doc. 2 new DOWN songs were written today by windstein and Keenan. Happy days boys

Older I get the more I realise that Phil was without a doubt the best "screamer" in the business. Still is. Saw Pantera in Prague last year, and he still has it. Maybe the singing not so much but those harsh vocals are the elite. These crazy vocals you're hearing on modern metal now where people are doing truly inhuman things with their screams are impressive, but gimmicky, and as I said, inhuman. Phil was the perfect crossover of punk and metal in his voice.

Acid bath and melvins are probably my favorite sludge bands

Went to an Eyehategod performance last year. It was so much fun.

Thanks for uploading this doco in full

I've been fortunate to have seen Crowbar, Eyehategod, COC, Exhorder, Goatwhore live in the last few years. They all live up to everything that's emphasised in this documentary. And I urge everyone else to go see them, you won't regret it 🤘

It's cool some folks are keeping alive the search for the 'I need to go take a shit now' level on the riff heaviness scale

I grew up in Atlanta. And there was a band called Leechmilk, I had never heard sludge metal before seeing them at this backyard show. And dude had an Eyehategod shirt - and it led me down the sludge path. But If you haven’t heard Leechmilk - look them up. Severely underrated band.

That was a Badass documentary, definitely worth a rewatch.

Great documentary. Crowbar, Down and Eyehategod are 3 of the greatest metal bands of our time. Corrosion is legendary too, although they’re not (in my opinion) a Louisiana based band.

When you have a love/hate relationship from being born,raised and still living in NOLA…but things like this make me proud to be here still in 2024! 🤘

For about a year back in like '91, all I knew of Eyehategod was that the name was spraypainted on the brick entrance to Fountainbleu.

I remember watching this back in 2014 when it was coming out one episode at a time. I couldn’t fuckin wait to watch the next episode. Thanks for uploading the whole thing. I wish this doc was on dvd so I could add it to my collection.

Just now realizing that 42:18 is CROWBAR Sonic Excess in its Purest Form album cover