Taking the same lyrical focus as covered on Converge's Jane Doe and injecting it with a little more psychologically-disturbing imagery, the "black romanticism" of the words certainly add an unforeseen depth to the proceedings. The band itself seems hesitant to describe themselves as grindcore, or even metal, as the vocalist explains that " I have always considered us a punk band or a hardcore band" and nowhere is that more evident than throughout Terrifyer, which seems to take much from Stooges-style punk rock and old school thrash.ĭespite the gore-inflected cover art displayed on the bands two full-lengths - which may unfortunately cause some to dismiss the band as another horribly contrived gore-grind act - the band's lyrical focus is far more literary, if a little depraved. While the band's earliest works (captured conveniently on the lo-fi 38 Counts Of Battery) mostly focused on blast beats and screaming - the two pillars of the genre, Terrifyer eschews those conventions and incorporates a more dirty, punk-inflected sound with their rapid fire assault. Grindcore - silly cover art aside - their new release Terrifyer completes the transition into a new category ( avant-grind, post-grind?), occupied by a tiny group of peers like the extraordinary and inaccessible arty excess of Discordance Axis and the hardcore-tinged and political affectations of Nasum.
And while their previous Relapse release Prowler in the Yard saw the band begin to escape from the confines of They've certainly been unfairly pigeonholed by their speed and intensity as being an enjoyable but unimportant act.
Pig Destroyer has largely been dismissed as a simple, if above average, grindcore band, and
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