![]() “We didn’t feel like we came into our own musically until we did Prowler,” said Scott Hull in a 2020 interview. Their partnership with the powerhouse of Relapse Records would help launch their foul brand of hostility into a landscape that would never be the same again. With 2001’s Prowler In The Yard, Pig Destroyer started to slightly stretch their short-burst format and open the production to make those iconic riffs more recognizable. Their early demos and releases would have them show their influences on their sleeves with Carcass, Dark Angel and Melvins covers, but their early smattering of original songs hinted at a visceral take on grindcore that would infatuate and haunt fans for years to come. He would remain the mastermind and songwriter with his riffs being the driving force of the band, but the other two members would put a stamp on what he created that was essential to their success. Hayes, Hull would find collaborators willing to combine his full background into one vicious outfit with Pig Destroyer. In partnering with drummer Brian Harvey and vocalist J.R. The connection to AxCx led him to creating Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, which permitted him to explore his interests in projects that only created noise. He has credits on their 1996 album 40 More Reasons to Hate Us, but his contributions were limited since that band was primarily an outlet for mouthpiece Seth Putnam to try and piss off as many people as he possibly could while the sloppy claustrophobic songs were mostly secondary. He also spent a year with one of metal’s most infamous villains in Anal Cunt. The goal was short bursts of noise and aggression that could potentially cause physical pain while listening and they would eventually take grindcore to the peak of its absurdity with 2003’s 100-track, 20-minute Altered States of America. The aim was to set the drums to not only sound inhuman but play at speeds no four-limbed person would be capable of, thus already helping him to win the speed race. He formed Agoraphobic Nosebleed in 1994, which consisted of him, a drum machine and a rotating cast of vocalists. He spent the early part of the decade focused on Head in a Pickle Jar, which was described as “thrash jazz,” before jumping into projects that would stretch the boundaries of what many people would even consider music. Label: Relapse Records.Pig Destroyer’s primary composer and riffmaster Scott Hull was no different. ![]()
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