Grindcore act PIG DESTROYER will return next month with a new EP.
Featuring “a blistering dose of grindcore, harsh noise, and industrial swagger,” the band’s The Octagonal Stairway EP is comprised of six songs, including B-side noise tracks and an appearance from Igor Cavalera (of Sepultura fame).
The Octagonal Stairway will arrive on August 28 via Relapse Records.
A video for “The Cavalry,” boasting fan-submitted video footage collected during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, can be viewed above.
The Octagonal Stairway track listing:
1. The Octagonal Stairway
2. The Cavalry
3. Cameraman
4. News Channel 6
5. Head Cage
6. Sound Walker
“East coast grindcore band Pig Destroyer formed in the late ’90s and quickly joined a wave of bands who would define the sound of extreme music over the following years. Playing without a bassist in their earlier phases, their sound was a noisy and unhinged take on grindcore elements, with short and complex songs, dual vocals, spazzy blastbeats, and occasional hints of metallic hardcore. The band quickly became highly active in D.I.Y. punk circles, touring and releasing splits with contemporaries like Orchid, Gnob, Converge, Isis, Drop Dead, and other highly respected grind and hardcore bands. Pig Destroyer’s output was prolific early on, with multiple lesser releases, 7″s, and compilation appearances bridging more fully formed albums. In 2000 the band signed to Relapse Records, which would be their home for the next decade and beyond. 2001 brought Prowler in the Yard, a high-water mark for focus and intensity for the band. Lineup changes and stylistic shifts would mark later material, as the band moved from their grindcore beginnings into doomier sludge and even sound collage-like experiments on later releases like 2008’s Natasha and 2014’s Mass & Volume.” – All Music
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