“There was one gig we played, and someone told us afterwards they heard an argument in the crowd,” Ben Jones tells Kerrang!. “He said it was between a metalhead saying we’re a metal band, and a hardcore guy saying that we’re a hardcore band.” Things like this aren’t important, of course, but the drummer’s anecdote is instructive about Pest Control. Rooted in Leeds’ famously strong and active hardcore scene, their thrashy noise is as fast, furious and fabulously moshable as Anthrax or Slayer or Municipal Waste. Said conversation actually took place while the band – Ben, singer Leah Massey, guitarists Joe Kerry and Joe Williams, and bassist Jack Padurariu – were on tour with death metal OGs Obituary earlier this year. “I think we’re metal for hardcore people,” adds ...