YMMV / Pig Destroyer

• Awesome Music: Prowler in the Yard is certainly the most well-known example, but pretty much every album has its fans. Terrifyer and Phantom Limb are also essential listening.
• Bizarro Episode: "Natasha" is a 38-minute doom metal rock opera that goes through multiple extended movements and prominently uses cinematic sound effects. It sounds closer to a mixture between Devil Doll and Khanate than anything you'd expect from Pig Destroyer. As if to reinforce this, the original bonus disc from Terrifyer it was first included on (before getting its own EP later) is a DVD rather than a CD.
• Broken Base: From a production standpoint, the 2015 deluxe reissue of Prowler in the Yard ^note More specifically the re-release's first disc. Either you love the edition for its cleaner, fuller sound quality compared to how gritty and raw the original mix was or dislike it for that same reason.
  • Head Cage is this for changing primarily to a Metalcore-influenced sound.
• Creepy Awesome: Their entire output, really.
• Critical Dissonance: Head Cage got rave reviews and made most critics end-of-year lists. Fans however despise the album seeing it as a blatant attempt at conforming to the popularity of Metalcore.
• Epic Riff: Literally dozens of examples, courtesy of Scott Hull, the riff master.
• Memetic Mutation: "Jennifer" is this for some fans.
• Nausea Fuel: "Jennifer" and its reprise on "Piss Angel." Full stop.
• Signature Song: "Jennifer" is probably one of the only times an Album Intro Track has been this. Most fans can quote the entire thing purely from memory.
• Tear Jerker: Some of the lyrics on Prowler in the Yard, particularly on the second half of the album, are rather gut-wrenching on top of being nightmarish.
  "Traced in wet sand her name in perfect cursive
  A love letter to the crescent moon
  By tomorrow it will be gone I told her
  There is no tomorrow she said
  I can feel her in a bikini of coiled snakes dancing into the hiss of the wind
  Postcards from a paradise in flames
  She used to be so right
  So right about everything"

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