Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed The Rats (Rocket Recordings) 2017
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Fuelled by tonic wine and the first four Sabbath albums, the debut full-length from Newcastle’s Pigsx7 has been a long time coming and it’s just as head-bangingly, Bucky-swiggingly huge as anyone could have hoped for. Drowning in reverb and with more fuzz than an Alsatian, it gets down to business quickly with “Psychopomp” lurching swamp sludge, Matthew Baty’s triumphant roar of “I am the demon, I am the night!” sending it spiralling down the rabbit-hole; the grimy boogie of “Sweet Relief” sees them cover further, jauntier territory and “Icon” has some of the finest riffing you’ll hear all year. This is monolithic stuff and if there was ever a band out there to keep an eye open for, it’s this lot.