DOOM metal band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (stylised as Pigs x7) are to perform at the Brewery Arts Centre next month (February 25).
The Newcastle-based band, consisting of Matthew Baty, Sam Grant, John-Michael Hedley, Ewan Mackenzie and Adam Ian Sykes just completed their fourth studio album. It was recorded and mixed at Blank Studios in Newcastle and mastered at Abbey Road Studios.
The band's most recent album Viscerals was released in 2020 to rave reviews from the Guardian, Mojo, Uncut, The Line of Best Fit, Louder Than War. BBC Radio 6 A-listed singles 'Reducer' and 'Rubbernecker.' They also put out a live album called Off Cuts in November of that year exclusively through Rough Trade record shops.
Uncut called the band 'one of the best new hard rock bands in the UK' and Kerrang said 'momentus.'
The band's music also touches upon psych rock and more classic heavy metal, as well as noise rock.
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