Opening with 4 minutes of eerie, thought provoking atmosphere, you are welcomed to “Mass & Volume” by an intro that shares the same title as the album and sets the perfect tone. Once you’re passed that and ready to get down and dirty, you’re finally introduced to the other instrumentation, slow chugs filled with feedback to only enhance the uneasy feeling there’s no way you won’t be experiencing.

As time passes, things pick up and over seven minutes in you’re finally hearing the first vocals. Distant and terrifying are what

come to mind instantly, almost as if the devil himself is calling to you.

The guitars are heavy, slow and simple. Be weary, those who are attracted to ridiculous shredding and complicated riffage, Pig Destroyer is hear to bring the heavy.

The drums are along the same lines as the drums, satisfying and heavy. You’re not here to hear speed, you’re here to hear destruction.

Red Tar is much different compared to the almost 20 minute intro track, it’s faster, more intricute, and almost 1/4th the length. Though it is different, it follows the same exact formula the first track did, slow, heavy, evil.

Production could not be better for Pig Destroyer. Everything is huge, the vocals are perfectly fit inside the open and loud guitars and full sounding drums.

Steer clear, metal elitists, the guys in Pig Destroyer are the very definition of brutal. “Mass & Volume” is the perfect album for you to blast during your Halloween parties, if you want them to be horrifying, that is.