The album dips and swells between molasses paced build-ups to faster than a pigs life inside a slaughter house riffing, but shear fucking anger is always a constant, because fuck you, fuck your whimsy and fuck all pigs… I hope they all die. I showed my grandfather the track "Articles of Human Weakness" and he described it as "constipation clearing tunes to burn bibles and nail jesus to the cross to!". Yes, it's that good.
These dudes know how to fuse together metallic hardcore, doom, d-beat, black, thrash and death metal all into one very vitriolic and nihilistic album. Despite this generous cornucopia of genre melding don't expect to find off the beaten path exploration into anything overtly unique… It's simple in the unrelenting onslaught and though new soils haven't necessarily been tread, it is rife with aggression and skull bashing energy.
I can't tell what's going on in the album art, but I'm pretty fucking sure I can make out a goats labia in there somewhere, see it? It's right there, the black and white part with the lines, look closer man!
Best enjoyed loud with a full cup of whiskey and self-hatred. [Southern Lord]
- Chris D'Alessandro
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"Open up your heart and let All Pigs Must Die take a big greasy shit into your soul with their second full length Nothing Violates This Nature."
ReplyDeleteThat may be one of my favorite opening sentences to a review ever. I liked the album but I don't think it has the replay value of God Is War for me. There was just something that didn't click. Still a crushing listen though.