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‘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. It works well, the rapper and producer enforcing a barbed lyrical delivery atop the band’s sinister sludge. ‘The Wyrm’ meanwhile has them channelling labelmates Goat with its shamanic psych eruption. The record closes with the eight-minute doomy - and dangerously tinnitus-inducing - ‘Toecurler’, confirming the obvious: this isn’t easy listening. But for those wishing to metaphorically slay an army of deities in the shadowland of the damned? It’s right up your street.