"When the music’s so loud that you can’t think about anything else, all those niggling troubles just go” - Matt Baty, frontman of the Pig Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs told the Guardian about the psychedelic metal they're playing - “I find solace in really loud music. I don’t meditate – maybe I should – but it feels like I’m achieving a similar state of consciousness". Bassist Johnny Hedley explained - "It’s therapy through noise”. And for the band's name, abbreviated to Pigsx7 by the band themselves, guitarist Sam Grant explains that it functions as “an ego inhibitor. Having a silly name stops you getting ahead of yourself or hungering for success and keeps you focused on making music you believe in”.

he Quietus made a selection of the best psychedelic and noise rock for the month of April, and two albums stand out from the already good bunch. The first one is Human Impact's self-titled debut, an industrial noise record made by the members of Unsane, Swans and Cop Shoot Cop. Apart from the name of the month award, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs win the doom-stoner-psych-rock album of the month award.