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[edit] Intro

The most recent revision includes the following text: At a live recorded concert of Pig Destroyer, JR Hayes' microphone had broke, leaving him to scream the lyrics as loud as he could. The sound came out almost louder then actually using the microphone itself.

I'm not sure that really belongs in an encyclopedia entry, and it is certainly out of place in the intro. If noone objects, I'm going to revert back the previous version. Aboverepine 20:49, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gravedancer video

I remember seeing this several times on one of the two major satellite music channels, so I'm not sure how accurate the "little airplay" comment is.

Especially considering the "Loathsome" video got plenty of spins on MTV2, more so than I'd ever expect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by CrowleyHead (talk • contribs) 00:34, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deathgrind/Grindcore

It's pretty obvious to me that PD are a grindcore band with little, if any, death influences, but there seems to be a bit of a revert war going on. Someone has cited a source that says 'grindcore' (however it also says 'black metal') so lets leave it like that. Metal Archives also have them listed as grindcore. The KZA (formerly MrHate) 07:35, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

→Categorizing bands is kinda silly, especially at this level of intertwinity (real word, trust me) between genres. They're definitely not just straight up grind in a Napalm Death sense, but I'm not sure the other influences

Agreed. Arguing about genres at this molecular level always reminds me of a scene in Airheads where the band all at once spout off 20 different ways to describe their sound. Unfortunately, this is how you get a metal band and someone comes along and says "well, one song I could hear a bit of black metal, so they should be 'heavy metal with black influences" and someone else says "but they definitely sound like grindcore, so it should be 'grindcore with black metal influences'" and then "deathgrind with black influences" and it goes on and on for the sake of satisfying everyone's opinion. The KZA (formerly MrHate) 00:07, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

User-edited Web sites, such as Metal Archives, are not reliable sources. And allmusic does not have a "death metal" tag, only "death metal / black metal." 68.47.81.164 17:52, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Pig Destroyer is definitely NOT thrash metal. They are death metal/grindcore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.28.234 (talk) 18:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

It's fairly obvious Pig Destroyer is a grindcore band. There's very little in the way of death metal, no double bass, no alternate picking for much of their songs, and the vocals aren't growls.

STRONGLY disagree with your statements that there is no double bass or alternate picking. Especially on prowler in the yard. I agree with the vocals, but that is one of the things deathgrind shares with grindcore, bands like unseen terror and rotten sound —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.141.7 (talk) 00:15, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand why this band is under the classification of 'death metal'. I really hate to tear bands up and seperate the hell out of them through genrefication(real word?) but there's just now way they're 'death metal'. Grindcore for sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.164.217.114 (talk) 05:56, 12 June 2008 (UTC)