After practically a decade within the making, Cagayan de Oro’s personal Queen Atia has lastly unveiled their much-anticipated album, Die Screaming, You Pig Spawned Trollop! It was launched on the first of February and is now accessible on all of your favourite streaming platforms and on Bandcamp.
Die Screaming, You Pig Spawned Trollop! is a raucous, unapologetic assortment of the band’s earliest materials and newer songs, making a sound that’s uncooked, gritty, and unmistakably Queen Atia. Vocalist Niqi Sioux describes it as “kinda political, kinda about woman energy, and kinda about us as a band.” It’s this mix of themes that makes the album really feel so pressing and relatable, like a rallying cry for anybody who’s ever felt misplaced or fed up with the established order.
The band—Niqi Sioux (vocals), Jojo Cabang (lead guitars), Jared Maestrado (guitar), Nikko Omana (guitar), Troy Abrogar (bass), and Cris Camba (drums)—have been by means of lots to get this album out, with the pandemic making it an enormous problem. “The precise launch was essentially the most difficult facet as a result of it stored being pushed again,” Niqi admits. Fortunately, after 9 years of laborious work, the album is lastly right here and it’s each bit as explosive as their followers would hope.
Drawing inspiration from the likes of The Distillers, Bikini Kill, Foo Fighters, and Turnstile, Die Screaming, You Pig Spawned Trollop! is a chaotic mix of grunge and post-hardcore that’s as cathartic as it’s catchy. Tracks like ‘Can’t Cease! (Do It Once more)’ and ‘Downcast Delight’ showcase the band’s skill to steadiness uncooked emotion with tight, highly effective instrumentation, whereas the album’s title — taken from a quote from Queen Atia to Cleopatra — provides a layer of historic intrigue to their modern-day rise up.
The album’s placing cowl artwork was designed by drummer Camba and options an illustrated pig holding a burning newspaper—a daring visible that completely captures the album’s themes of defiance and disillusionment. Niqi describes it as “a pig watching all of the ‘trollops’ screaming/struggling.” It’s darkish, provocative, and precisely the form of vitality that Queen Atia deliver to their music.
Regardless of the heavy themes, the band hasn’t misplaced their sense of humour. “We don’t actually take ourselves too severely,” Niqi says. “We’ve enjoyable whereas we make music. We share concepts and more often than not we put these concepts to our sound.” That steadiness of enjoyable and ferocity is what makes Die Screaming, You Pig Spawned Trollop! such a compelling pay attention.
Whether or not you’re a die-hard grunge fan, a post-hardcore fanatic, or simply somebody who loves music with a little bit of chunk, this album has one thing for you. Be sure that to take a look at Die Screaming, You Pig Spawned Trollop! Accessible now at your favourite streaming platforms and on Bandcamp. Let’s help native!
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