New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Relapse Records) Reigning grindcore champions PIG DESTROYER have revealed the title of their highly anticipated new album to be Book Burner. The band recently completed self-recording their razor-sharp fifth-full length and first album in over five years at guitarist Scott Hull's Visceral Sound Studios . Book Burner will see a October 23rd release via Relapse Records and features 19 tracks with a return to the band's raw, misanthropic sound. Decibel Magazine has revealed the album's art (created by Chris Taylor) and uploaded an in-studio clip documenting the recording process at this location: https://bit.ly/NfLe0m
Additionally, PIG DESTROYERhas announced a series of summer and fall festival appearances in support of the new record. The band will be heading to Europe on August 10th to play the Czech Republic's Brutal Assault Festival and Belgium's Ieper Fest followed by a string of Japanese and Canadian dates. Then in November, they are set to headline the UK's Damnation Festival along with a round of headlining dates. These shows mark the first live performances with new drummer Adam Jarvis (MISERY INDEX, CRIMINAL ELEMENT) behind the kit. A complete listing of dates including the recently added Maryland Deathfest 2013 spot is available below.
Additional PIG DESTROYER information is available via Relapse.com and the official PIG DESTROYER Facebookpage.
August 10 Czech Republic Brutal Assault Fest
August 11 Belgium Ieper Fest
August 22 Tokyo, Japan Earthdom
August 23 Tokyo, Japan Extreme The Dojo 30
August 24 Osaka, Japan Extreme The Dojo 30
August 25 Nagoya, Japan Extreme The Dojo 30 September 28 Calgary, Canada Noctis Fest
Nov. 1 Brighton, UK The Haunt w/ Blacklisters
Nov. 2 London, UK The Garage w/ Blacklisters
Nov. 3 Leeds, UK Damnnation Festival
May 23 - 26Baltimore, MDMaryland Deathfest XI
"skull-crushing" - MTV.com
"The kings of bludgeoning art grind...a fucking phenomenal extreme metal band" - KERRANG!
"It's a fucking beast…it's destined be this year's best source of nightmares and nocturnal emissions. 10 out of 10" - DECIBEL
"their most manic album yet" - CMJ
"A sound that is among the most extreme ever created."- Allmusic
"Pig Destroyer have been peddling high-octane, face-ripping, black-humor grindcore for a decade, and here they push their sound into an even fiercer realm." -SPIN
"Phantom Limb is such a quantum leap even beyond Pig Destroyer's earlier, already pretty fuckin' awesome records that it might as well represent a quantum leap for the whole goddamn genre." - Pitchfork
