Phantom Limb

You can’t really expect subtlety from a group called Pig Destroyer. Subtlety you shall not receive. What you will get, however, is some of the most musically advanced and lyrically demented (in an articulate way, not a shock value way) grindcore to claw its way out of the grave. On their fourth album, JR Hayes opens the Pandora’s Box in his mind and unleashes a cavalcade of serial killers, stalkers, and other specimens of the untreated mentally unwell. “Loathsome” forms the literal and thematic centerpiece of the record, a four-minute crawl through the sewage of Hannibal Lecter’s brain. One of those rare cases where you’ll both regret and be glad you can’t understand the words.