After wrecking your eardrums for two albums on Poland’s Godz of War Productions, Milwaukee noise mongers, Pig’s Blood have jumped to Dark Descent Records for album number three, but nothing has changed.
This group, with folks from Prezir, Protestant, Enabler, Shut in, Force, and others, continues to deliver a Revenge/ Blasphemy/ Angelcorpse-inspired form of vitriolic black death that fans of recent acts like Chaos Inception, Olkoth, Plague Corpse, Imperishable, etc, will gobble up in spike ‘n’ leather goodness.
I covered the 2017 self-titled debut, and really dug it, and the follow-up, A Flock Slaughtered, delivered more of the same, and to the surprise of no one, this is a third album of the same cacophony of noisy, chaotic, feral, and snarling black/death metal.
33 minutes, 10 songs with titles like “Standing in Depravity”, “Satanic Hammer of Justice”, “Ravenous Hellslaught”. And not a single moment of respite or gimmick from the hellish noise. Chris Ellis has a throaty bellow and rasp, and the guitars of Bubba Nitz and Mike Gamm are gritty, raw, and menacing.
This isn’t a game-changer of an album or even a memorable album. But I mean that as a compliment. You just sit there and let tracks like “Power to Stop It…”, “Rabid Dogs”, and “Aftermath” punch you in the face and smile while your teeth shatter.
