Pig Destroyer

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Pig Destroyer
Pig Destroyer at the 2005 Maryland Deathfest
Pig Destroyer at the 2005 Maryland Deathfest
General information
Genre (s) Grindcore
founding 1997
Founding members
JR Hayes
Scott Hull
John Evans
Current occupation
singing
 JR Hayes
guitar
 Scott Hull
Drums
 Adam Jarvis
Blake Harrison
John Jarvis
former members
Drums
 Brian Harvey (until 2011)

Pig Destroyer is a grindcore band from Richmond in the US state of Virginia . They are one of the most successful underground bands in the USA, had sold more than 100,000 albums in the USA alone by 2009 and earns around 20,000 US dollars annually from performances as well as from sales of merchandise and records.

Band history

Pig Destroyer was founded in 1997 by singer JR Hayes, guitarist Scott Hull ( Agoraphobic Nosebleed ) and drummer John Evans. Following the release of a split - EP with Orchid and a tour with Converge and Isis drummer Evans left the band again. With the new drummer Brian Harvey Pig Destroyer recorded their debut album Explosions In Ward 6 , which was released in 1998 on Reservoir Records . After numerous live performances a. a. with The Dillinger Escape Plan took Relapse Records , the band in early 2000 signed and published in the same year a split single with Isis and a compilation entitled 38 Counts of Battery on which the entire debut album and the title of all previous splits the band found. In 2001 the second album Prowler In The Yard was released , followed by numerous other tours and festival appearances. Pig Destroyer went on tour in Japan with Napalm Death , Nasum and Anal Cunt in 2004, followed by the third album Terrifyer at the end of the year . As a bonus, part of the edition included an audio DVD with just one 40-minute track called Natasha . Blake Harrison was hired for the live samples in 2006 and became a permanent member of the band after the tour. The fourth album, Phantom Limb , was released in mid-2007 and placed 47th on the Top Independent Albums . In 2008 the first tour through Australia followed . In August 2009, the Washington Post magazine featured a cover story about the group on the occasion of the Maryland Deathfest . At the beginning of July 2011, Scott Hull announced via Facebook that Adam Jarvis ( Misery Index ) would replace the previous drummer Brian Harvey. With the album Book Burner released in October 2012 , the band made a stylistic change towards the grindcore of their first albums. In October 2013 Adam Jarvis' cousin John Jarvis was added as bassist.

The band's lyrics, written by singer Hayes, are characterized as atypical for grindcore, as they are neither about current political issues, nor about splatter or pornography . The lyrics, described as “poetic”, brought the band recognition even outside of the Grindcore scene. They did not use bass in their music for 16 years and have been using samples since around 2005.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Book burner
  US 103 11/10/2012 (1 week)

Albums

  • Explosions In Ward 6 (1998)
  • 38 Counts of Battery ( compilation , 2000)
  • Prowler In The Yard (2001)
  • Painter of Dead Girls (compilation, 2004)
  • Terrifyer (2004)
  • Phantom Limb (2007)
  • Book Burner (2012)
  • Head Cage (2018)
  • The Octagonal Stairway (2020)

EPs

  • Orchid / Pig Destroyer ( Split with Orchid , 1997)
  • Pig Destroyer / Gnob (Split with Gnob, 1999)
  • Isis / Pig Destroyer (Split with Isis , 2000)
  • Benümb / Pig Destroyer (Split with Benümb , 2002)
  • Pig Destroyer / Coldworker / Antigama (Split with Coldworker and Antigama , 2007)
  • Natasha (2008)

literature

  • William Phillips, Brian Cogan: Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music and Culture . Greenwood Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-313-34800-6 , pp. 187-188 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c David Rowell: Into the Darkness. Washington Post Magazine, August 9, 2009, accessed February 4, 2011 .
  2. ↑ PIG DESTROYER Announce A New Drummer , metalinjection.net, July 7, 2011, accessed on August 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ Stephanie Castor: Interview: Pig Destroyer Guitarist Scott Hull Discusses 'Book Burner,' Gear and More. Guitar World , October 17, 2012, accessed December 2, 2012 .
  4. ^ Pig Destroyer Announce New Bassist. Terrorizer , October 23, 2013, accessed November 8, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Kube: Pig Destroyer: Poetic Master Butchers. Ox-Fanzine # 59, 2005, accessed February 4, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Sources for chart placements: US , accessed on June 2, 2013.

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