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Death Hilarious
Release Date: Apr 4, 2025
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Missing Piece Records
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Album Review: Death Hilarious by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
Excellent, Based on 4 Critics
Based on rating 4
The Newcastle outfit’s fifth album swaggers right up to the edge of oblivion and does a stupid little dance We've long been supporters of Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (Pigs x7 from here on) here at musicOMH, so the announcement of their fifth album, Death Hilarious, was as tantalising as a Solero on a mid-July day. Pigs x7 have never been a subtle band, but here, they have sharpened their particular brand of thunderous, gloopy existentialism into something that both pummels and perplexes. The riffs are huge, the vocals are unhinged, the rhythms are built for demolition, but lurking beneath all of it is something that feels… wrong.
Based on rating 8/10
On their fifth album, Death Hilarious, they're tossing aside the immersive, slow-burning textures of Land of Sleeper and dive headfirst into something wilder, more aggressive, and unapologetically direct. This isn't just an album, it's a full-force collision, a riotous onslaught of sludgy riffs, howling intensity, and moments of unexpected weirdness that make it one of their most dynamic releases yet. Whereas their previous effort encouraged deep listening and slow immersion, this time around, the band is all about impact and they've more than delivered.
Opinion: Excellent
Five albums in for the five-pronged psych rockers and that, by my maths, has them crying "Wee! Wee! Wee!" all the way home. But they haven't done that. If anything they've pushed further afield than ever before, enlisting legendary producer, rapper, and one half of Run The Jewels (El-P) for an eviscerating verse on Death Hilarious's centre-piece 'Glib Tongued'.
Opinion: Very Good
‘Death Hilarious' is a battle-ready hammer throw of a fifth album from Pigs x7. Lifting off with G-force rocket speed, opener 'Blockade' is a searing tornado of sludgy space rock, Matthew Baty's Lemmy-esque growl scorching its way across its cacophonous cannonade. The fuzzy delirium continues on; single 'Stiches' conjures a dream tag-team of Black Sabbath and Hawkwind, while 'Glib Tongued' features a leftfield collaboration with Run The Jewels rapper El-P.
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