Ask Pig Destroyer guitarist, producer and co-founder Scott Hull if he thought he’d still be in the grind game 21 years after the band began, and he’ll just start laughing. “No way,” he says. “The biggest aspiration we had was to put out a seven-inch. We thought full-length records were kinda bourgeois.”

Pig Destroyer boil metal down to its muscle, sinew, and bone - razor-sharp guitar, percussive pummeling, and a lone, stark howl - and use them to commit a vicious assault. The lyrics paint loathsome, frightening images of pitch-black self-hatred and the frailty of the human experience. These musical manifestations only serves to cement their already legendary status.