Pig Destroyer: The Story Behind Terrifyer’s Disturbing Cover

It was hard to imagine how Richmond, Virginia-based grindcore trio Pig Destroyer could follow up their 2001 release Prowler In The Yard. The album featured both a discomfortingly ferocious approach to American grindcore and one of the most unsettling covers many metal fans had ever seen (courtesy of tattoo artist Paul Booth). Both catapulted the band to new levels of acclaim as one of extreme music’s more menacing acts. But it was 2004’s Terrifyer that cemented PxDx as an artistic force within the scene. The album showed the band expressing their trademark savagery with even more nuance and variation; it came not only with a 21-song barrage of grind, but also a DVD featuring a 37-minute-long doom metal number titled Natasha that was deeply moving and proved the band could ...

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