All Pigs Must Die

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All Pigs Must Die
General information
origin Boston , Massachusetts , United States
Genre (s) Crustcore , Sludge , Deathgrind
founding 2010
Current occupation
Ben Koller
Kevin Baker
Matt Woods
Adam Wentworth
Electric guitar
 Brian Izzi

All Pigs Must Die is an American hardcore punk supergroup from Boston , Massachusetts that was founded in 2010.

history

The band was founded in 2010 and consists of drummer Ben Koller ( Converge ), singer Kevin Baker ( The Hope Conspiracy ) and Bloodhorse members Matt Woods and Adam Wentworth on bass and electric guitar. In the same year a self-titled EP was released on Nonbeliever Records . Later that year, Kurt Ballou began work on the debut album. After a record deal was signed with Southern Lord in 2011 , the album God Is War was released in the summer of that year , followed by the second album, again produced by Ballou, under the name Nothing Violates This Nature in summer 2013 . In 2016 the band could be seen at Hellfest, among others. The singles A Caustic Vision and Blood Wet Teeth were released from the third album Hostage Animal , released on October 27, 2017 . The line-up on the album has grown to a quintet with the addition of guitarist Brian Izzi ( Trap Them ). The recordings for the album took place in Kurt Ballou's GodCity Studio . Izzi joined the band in 2017, although All Pigs Must Die had had a close relationship with Trap Them for years before. In the same year, the group also played overseas for the first time.

style

In the band biography on southernlord.com be Slayer , Trouble , old Morbid Angel , Gism , Jesus Lizard , Bathory , old Ulver , old Sepultura , the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger , the naturalist Charles Darwin , the feelings of pessimism , fear, hatred and Paranoia and THC reported as influences. Allmusic's Gregory Heaney wrote that the band played a mix of heavy metal , D-beat and hardcore punk.

Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard described God Is War as an aggressive mixture of discharge and entombed . He recommended the music to fans of death metal , crustcore and " thrashers who, because of various neo-pussy bands , have forgotten that their favorite music actually assassins, sabers and hacks everything up". In a later edition, Mühlmann wrote about Nothing Violates This Nature that everything he liked on the previous album was either partially or completely gone. They concentrate more on death metal and less on punk and hardcore punk and the rock 'n' roll elements have almost completely disappeared. Apart from a few slow songs, there is also aggressive Grindcore and Metal , which is technically perfect, but played without emotion. Stylistically, the group is comparable to Hierophant . Gretha Breuer from the same magazine described Hostage Animal as a multi-layered metal punk, "which has many ideas and non-genre role models". The album is a mixture of longer five-minute epic songs and short powerful songs. The riffs are often tough and sound borrowed from the sludge . In Breuer's interview one issue later, the band stated that they consider Hostage Animal to be the most dynamic album to date . With the addition of Izzi you have conquered “a lot more terrain in terms of sound”. The musicians are influenced by different musicians, artists, authors and filmmakers, with each individual member being able to begin with the influence of the other, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Joachim Hiller from Ox-Fanzine assigned God Is War to crustcore. The text deals with topics such as Viktor Anatoljewitsch But , atheism and genocides in the third world . The album contained intoxicating "stick orgies" and it was suitable for people who would like to hear "hardcore ultra-hard, extremely fast and apocalyptic", whereby one gets along in the songs "without disturbing metal elements". He also called the music a "doomy grind crust attack at the highest level". In a later edition Hiller reviewed Nothing Violates This Nature and described the music as uncompromising, very aggressive and a " nihilistic shooting orgy". For him, the band is the logical further development of the crustcore of the 1980s and 1990s towards the “metal-hardcore hybrid”.

Anzo Sadoni from Metal Hammer assigned Nothing Violates This Nature to the hard Deathgrind , which, however, often lapses into Doom Metal and Sludge. The songs are designed to be varied so that no two are alike. The mood is nihilistic and black. In summary, it is "not an album for weekend metallers and death metal backpackers who think Debauchery is the 'very extreme shit'". Four years later, Christina Wenig reviewed Hostage Animal and found that the band was more varied than before, although it was "deeply black, nasty and godless". All in all, she found elements from hardcore punk, grindcore, sludge, death metal and thrash metal.

Discography

  • 2010: All Pigs Must Die (EP, Nonbeliever Records )
  • 2011: God Is War (Album, Southern Lord )
  • 2012: Curse of Humanity / Extinction Is Ours (EP, Nonbeliever Records)
  • 2013: Silencer (EP, Nonbeliever Records)
  • 2013: Nothing Violates This Nature (Album, Southern Lord)
  • 2017: Hostage Animal (album, Southern Lord)
  • 2017: A Caustic Vision (EP, self-published)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Hiller: ALL PIGS MUST DIE . Nothing Violates This Nature. In: Ox-Fanzine . 110, October / November, 2013 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on August 22, 2018] 2013/2012).
  2. ↑ a b c Gregory Heaney: All Pigs Must Die. Allmusic , accessed August 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Laszlo: HELLFEST OPEN AIR 2016 - DAY 1, 17 June 2016. metalrecusants.com, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c All Pigs Must Die. southernlord.com, accessed August 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Gretha Breuer: All Pigs Must Die . Delicious pork sandwich. In: Rock Hard . No. 368 , January 2018, p. 79 .
  6. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann : All Pigs Must Die . God is war. In: Rock Hard . No. 296 , January 2012.
  7. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: All Pigs Must Die . Nothing Violates This Nature. In: Rock Hard . No. 316 , September 2013.
  8. ↑ Gretha Breuer: All Pigs Must Die . Hostage Animal. In: Rock Hard . No. 367 , December 2017, p. 98 .
  9. ↑ Joachim Hiller: ALL PIGS MUST DIE . God is war. In: Ox-Fanzine . 99, December / January, 2012 ( ox-fanzine.de [accessed on August 22, 2018] 2011/2012).
  10. ↑ Anzo Sadoni: All Pigs Must Die . Nothing Violates This Nature. In: Metal Hammer . August 2013, p. 94 .
  11. ↑ Christina Wenig: All Pigs Must Die . Hostage Animal. In: Metal Hammer . November 2017, p. 90 .