The Reader recommends 34 recent releases for this month’s Bandcamp day.
Tag: Pig Destroyer
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Grindcore legends Pig Destroyer expand their horizons on a new EP
Pig Destroyer have been at the forefront of grindcore for more than 20 years, and over that time they’ve found a way to push the notoriously rigid style into far-reaching spaces. Helmed by guitarist Scott Hull (also the mastermind behind psychotic “cybergrind” outfit Agoraphobic Nosebleed), the Virginia band started out playing fairly standard grindcore in […]
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Matmos have 99 collaborators but a bore ain’t one
Baltimore experimental electronic duo Matmos have released a steady stream of albums over their 25 years, many of which feature guest artists, but on the new The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises in Group Form they’ve brought in enough collaborators to fill a house party. They made the album in part from submissions by 99 musicians […]
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Puig Destroyer blends grind and baseball on ‘Mike Trout’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Puig Destroyer’s “Mike Trout.” It’s baseball-themed grindcore. What more could you possibly want?
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Dark Lord Day spreads out and levels up for 2013
In which our correspondent attends the annual festival of beer and metal that revolves around Three Floyds’ notorious Russian imperial stout.
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Taste the Waste: Three Floyds and Municipal Waste’s Toxic Revolution Stout
Thrash metal may go hand-in-hand with shit beer, but the stout that Municipal Waste brewed with Three Floyds is world class.
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The Year in Review: Music
Six Reader writers, 12 months, 30 picks, and no generic “top tens”
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12 O’Clock Track: All Pigs Must Die, “The Blessed Void”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is “The Blessed Void” from All Pigs Must Die.