Pig Destroyer, _Terrifyer_ -- metal-inclined folk, what say you?

Seriously, though, great band. Piers pretty right on about Lamb of God and all Hull-related projects being the cream of the crop, though Otep rules too

Yeah, but no thread with them in the title, so.

I really like the album...it's not just the usual grind stuff, it has plenty of great thrash metal breakdowns, plus plenty of fun shock rock shtick. The dvd is pretty cool, with a much more slowed-down, slow-burning feel to the music.

Best line on the album: "The tape across your mouth says more than your words ever could."

In other news, Pig Destroyer and Lamb of God are hardly "the two best metal acts going" right now. Not even close. See below, for starters:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0438/eddy.php

Were Die Kreuzen ever quite that high-speed? Admittedly only saw them once.

Not sure about those samples either. There's the one dialogue moment on the main disc that I was wondering about, though.

Way more Pig Destroyer, Lamb of God, and other (better and worse) '04 metal stuff here, by the way:

Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

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guys, I just listened to Pig Destroyer (CD only, cos I'm the Last Man Without A DVD Player). Like the plate glass intro, and 6-12:theWithfinder remonstrates, the bitch keeps laughing and crying at once, later, there's a glass drill after Comets On Fire in a blender, etc.),then 16 (beat lands, skips, lands, skips) maybe it's 18 with the distressed chord that keeps righting itself, then slipping again, 21's like a compacted track off the new Mastodon, all these mashed up sectionettes. Rest is like GW's debating last night, emphasizing the same "points" over and over and over. Totally generic, only good if you really really really are such a fan of this particular clutch of sounds that you really really really need to spend money on 'em one more time.(Or get it for free, I spoze, although I *did*, adn still feel a bit ripped off: moments of MY LIFE spent listening to this shit, or the shit in between the good bits, as usual in life. Didn't need to *listen* for that to happen, in other words.)
-- Don (dmxz...), October 1st, 2004.

I'm loving the Pig Destroyer album. My favorite song is "Carrion Fairy," which Hull better hope Slayer's lawyers never hear. That crazy screaming fight (or whatever the dialogue break is) is amazing, too. I can't figure out what's going on with it - it sounds like a guy screaming and a girl crying, but then I think I hear laughter...? Very unnerving.

If your CD player is somewhat less than four years old or a high end model, it will play the DVD just like a regular CD. You just hit
"Go" twice, once to start reading it, the second time to get off the menu and launch the stereo mix of it.

The record company did waste the format. The DVD cut is mixed in stereo and home movie theatre "surround" sound. The muddiness of Pig Destroyer's sound, however, makes this a trivial distinction.

In other news, Pig Destroyer and Lamb of God are hardly "the two best metal acts going" right now. Not even close.

Yep, agreed. Lamb of God is true guitar mag and urban slum metal tabloid/zine features material.

I was happy to find a new reissue of the Edgar Broughton Band's "Wasa Wasa" yesterday. It's about the toughest sounding one in the catalog, fuzzy thug rock and riff, psychedelic and abrasive. Hawkwind with shorter songs and better vocals which makes it, hmmmm, like a heavier, louder combination of The Deviants' "Ptoof" and third records.

Yeah, probably. I had Popul Vuh stuff when I was 25, in grad school and of the stupid mind that I ought to put ambient noise, music concrete and industrial soundtracks on when my soon-to-be wife would come over for the evening. It made her tense and inevitably scotched all good will and amore.

And there's some of that to "Natasha" although Pig Destroyer back off on the noise in favor of New Agey water-dripping and whispering sounds a bit.

That's right; NEW EARTH MATERIAL IN 2005.

Fuck yeah.

Maybe not. This is a pretty narrow slice of tastes. Let's see, the new Grave CD may be worth a listen if you can find a lender or a used. There's a seven minute cover of St. Vitus' "Burial at Sea" on it which redeems a lot of the more ISO 9000 Swede grind that's much of it. The first cut on it is good, too.

"Burial at Sea" is also on Goatsnake's "Trampled Under Hoof." So, that must make it the stoner doom anthem for the end of summer and fall.

Lessee, in July, Pigmy Love Circus' "Power of Beef" finally got national distribution after -- seemingly two years. It's thumping, Bo Diddley-influenced tribal rock and metal which very few people do
anymore. You'll have to like the big, tattooedm very angry, thick-headed galoot soCal white-trash meth-lab and guns vibe. I had hoped for "I'm the King of L.A. (I Killed Axl Rose Today)" but they didn't re-record and it. They should have since a lot of the other tunes are that old.

Bathtub Shitter's "Lifetime Shitlist" remains in repeated play and will easily make my P&J ballot.

Majestic Rock reissued the Dirty Tricks catalog and the first album is equal to any of the first five Budgie records. Heavy doubled fuzz riffage and songs which has absolutely no hope of radio play in the early Seventies.

Harvey Milk's "The Kelly Sessions" is very slow-downed dropped tuning dirge-metal, even a little moreso than the release on Relapse last year. And Amplified Heat's "In for Sin" does the Texas heavy white-boy blooz trio thing, very into shouting noise, zzzzz, and crash-bang as opposed to tasty playing to satisfy the sissified purists and they're women & children.

PLEASE EXPLAIN.

Also: dramatic reduction in those Dave Lombardo drum pars! DAMN.

so natasha then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPet3nxWzA

this shit rules