PIG DESTROYER - Phantom Limb

PIG DESTROYER
Phantom Limb
Relapse Records
10/10




On “Phantom Limb,” grindcore outfit Pig Destroyer is as cohesive as ever, bashing through fifteen vicious cuts like a musical murder rampage, taking victims at random and leaving a bloody trail of destruction in the wake. You’ll find much more variation on “Phantom Limb” than on the group’s previous outing “Terrifyer.”

A verifiable sonic tempest, “Jupiter’s Eye” mangles and mutilates, a contorted mass of psychotic riffing and tortured screams. “Thought Crime Spree” devastates, with a unique arrangement and whirling, barbed riffing from Scott Hull. Relentless in approach, “Phantom Limb” slams from track to track, with each aural battering exponentially intensifying the damage, culminating in an album that will leave you feeling like you’ve been broken in a thousand pieces and stretched across half a county.

It’s when the group takes a deliberate deviation from standard grind formulas, as it does on this album’s title track, that the musical development of Pig Destroyer becomes deadly apparent.

Having grown as songwriters has given Pig Destroyer the ammunition to take mass sonic homicide to an entirely different level. In doing so, this group of deranged, grinding killers has pushed what many consider to be the most extreme form of music known to man completely over the edge. “Phantom Limb” is completely crucial.


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