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''Book Burner'' is the fifth studio album by American grindcore band Pig Destroyer. It was released on October 22, 2012, through Relapse Records. The deluxe edition includes a short story by J.R. Hayes entitled "The Atheist" and an EP of hardcore punk covers. Vocalist J.R. Hayes stated that the band's only goal for ''Book Burner'' was "fast/brutal" and expressed happiness over the abundance of songs on the album with shorter lengths.〔 Guitarist Scott Hull also affirmed that the band's goal was "shorter grind" on ''Book Burner'' in contrast with the preceding full-length album, ''Phantom Limb''. ==Background== There was a five-year gap between ''Book Burner'' and its predecessor, ''Phantom Limb''. Guitarist Scott Hull explained that "there was a lot of adversity that we had to go through to get this record done", which explained the delay: "A lot of changing, of breaking down and rebuilding the equipment and the places that we used and the people we worked with, the approach that we follow to come up with the material. Just getting the goddamn CD done was a whole ordeal."〔 During this time, drummer Brian Harvey was replaced by Adam Jarvis. Vocalist J.R. Hayes remarked that the band's relationship with Harvey had "run its course" such that he "wasn't prepared to continue with the status quo". Hull described Harvey as "checking out mentally" and "cancelling a lot of practices and not showing up and not really practicing on his own", which led to the band determining near the end of 2010 that "it wasn't going to work out...That's when some blowout happened and he was left to go on his own path".〔 Hayes noted that the span of time between albums was due to the band being in "upheaval...There was a time when I wasn't sure if the band would go on or not. It took us a while to put ourselves back together."〔 Hull attributed the band's back-to-basics approach to the addition of Jarvis: "Getting a new drummer...inspired us to go back to a shorter, faster and louder demo that we prided ourselves in early on." Prior to Jarvis joining the band, Pig Destroyer had rehearsed with Dave Witte several times before an injury and touring commitments with Municipal Waste led him to step aside.〔 Hull explained that the internal turmoil, particularly the drummer situation, had an impact upon the songwriting for ''Book Burner'': ''Book Burner'' was also written as a reaction to ''Phantom Limb'', which Scott Hull described as "really written as kind of an experiment to explore longer songs and song structures, things that were catchier and thrashier and that had repeats and structures that were pretty standard."〔 Hull revealed that this approach was driven, in part, by Harvey's changing musical interests: "towards the end, it was very difficult to do anything like that (fast songs ), it was easier to do the mid-pace stuff. But with Adam, we got really inspired to go back to those roots where we just wanted to blast and play really super fast the whole time, so there's a lot of that on ''Book Burner''. It wasn't like we felt like we needed to go back to ''Prowler in the Yard'' or ''Terrifyer'' intentionally, we just felt like, 'Hey, we can do this again now!'"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Book Burner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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