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Retrobution CD (1995)
Pig Killer CD discography After helping originate the sound of grindcore in the late '80s alongside other U.K. bands such as Napalm Death and Carcass, Extreme Noise Terror meandered on, eventually releasing Retro-Bution in 1995. Over the course of the five to eight years since the group's earliest experiments with the grindcore sound -- captured best on their Peel Sessions album -- little had changed. The band's peers had mostly moved on to other styles and new sounds by the mid-'90s, but Extreme Noise Terror stuck to traditional grindcore for Retro-Bution. Pete Hurley, Ali Firouzbakht, and Lee Barrett still distort their detuned guitars to insane levels and play shredding, machine-like riffs that lock into painful grooves of grinding tones. Pig Killer remains true to his name, carrying out his assaulting machine-gun percussion blasts, while the group's signature vocalist duo of Dean Jones and Phil Vane still trade off their occasionally harmonious rabid barks on the many featured self-penned odes to nihilism. ...
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