Cloth Mother by PIGPEN

For fans of Show Me the Body, Moreru, My Wife’s an Angel, sludge metal, and the viral spread of trauma into all corners of the soul, Cloth Mother by PIGPEN takes aim at those demons which haunt our relationships and fires off blisteringly intense rounds of hardcore chaos. A live recording style allows for an immensely dynamic performance, taking us from meandering, mumbling lows into wild fits of rage as each stage drips with molten noisy volatility. At that low point, when the band cycles through suspended riffs as distant feedback fills the background, we experience the impacts of trauma on our connections to our communities, other individuals, and ourselves. However, as the band pulls back their restraint and launches into those intense emotional peaks, we finally find the source of all of that hardship, bringing us face-to-face with those formative experiences which set the groundwork of our pain. Identifying the source may not instantly render us cured, but these moments of genuinely satisfying catharsis present a massive improvement over the anxious meandering we felt before.