Album Cuts: Pig Destroyer

(A) If one was to take a chord from a barbed wire fence, tangle it around a 300 pound pig, and record the sound it makes, it would still fail to be as frightening as Pig Destroyer's newest release, Terrifyer. Aptly titled indeed, the album rips through brutal grind, contemporary hardcore and haunting sludge. Plain and simple, Pig Destroyer has upped the ante for genre-bending metal.

Terrifyer showcases Pig Destroyer's growth with the simple addition of cohesion. Not being one to change a good thing, the sound is the same, but the album itself makes more sense. The songs blend and move together, which is saying a lot considering many of them clock out at under one minute. An additional bonus audio DVD features a 37 minute song, "Natasha." To be perfectly honest, I was actually expecting Terrifyer to be more along the lines of this - an epic sludge fest that, although obviously paying a tribute to Neurosis, is a startlingly complex song. The addition of bass guitar, as well as the delicate usage of samples, makes this one of the more interesting noise-sludge songs to date.

Steal your dad's $2000 Boston Acoustic speakers, pick up your copy of Terrifyer, and rock out to the most frightening, brutal album of the year.

-Thorin Klosowski

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