Trying times calls for trying music, and there are few bands more up to the task than Pig Destroyer. Their name alone conjures images of bloodied swine corpses or maniacal abattoir workers taking pleasure in their meat-murder. Alongside godfathers Napalm Death, the Virginian five-piece are one of grindcore’s most notorious bands, pushing the boundaries of extremity to their limit over the past two decades. Their most recent full-length – 2018’s Head Cage – added a more metallic flavour to the violence, and now, with this new stopgap EP, PD explore the benefits of electronic warfare. It’s an interesting move to split a six-track record into two halves, especially when the whole EP is less than 30-minutes and one of those tracks is an interlude, but there are two distinct moods at play....
