{"product_id":"mental-madness-cassette-feat-matty-matheson-from-the-bear-with-members-of-alexisonfire-young-guv-more","title":"Mental Madness [Cassette] (Feat. Matty Matheson From The Bear With Members Of Alexisonfire Young Guv \u0026 More)","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePig Pen - Mental Madness [Cassette] (Feat. Matty Matheson From The Bear With Members Of Alexisonfire Young Guv \u0026amp; More)\u003c\/h2\u003e\nThe plan was to start a band that was all longtime \nfriends.\n The idea was to embrace the scene they grew \nup in. \nThe conspirators are as follows: Matty Matheson \n(singer), who grew up in the Niagara hardcore \nscene (with his late '90s band, HANGING \nHEARTS), and who has gone on to become a \nchef and restaurateur. Wade MacNeil (guitarist), \nan active member of ALEXISONFIRE and \nDOOM'S CHILDREN. The Romano brothers, \nDaniel (guitarist) and Ian (drummer), rock'n'roll \nveterans from Daniel Romano' Outfit (TOMMY \nAND THE COMMIES), and Tommy Major, \n(bassist) of YOUNG GUV. \n''It was during the pandemic and we were all \nback home,'' says Matheson. The conversations \nbegan-to make something heavy, noisy and \ntouched on the classic '80s hardcore we all love \nso much. Everyone showed up with a bunch \nof riffs, scraps of lyrics, talked influences and \nprinciples, bounced ideas back and forth, then \ngot chinese food. ''We wrote ten songs in one \nday,'' says Matheson, ''and the next day we \nrecorded them.''\n What resulted is the band PIG PEN. And, from \nthis flash of inspiration, the group's debut full\nlength, Mental Madness. It's tough and it's harsh, \nthe music is dark and noisy, and it's got depth. \nThere's an ease to the energy too that spiritually \naligns it with those rare fully realized hardcore \ndemos from the classic era-one of those \ngolden, hallowed megaphone announcements \nthat show up now and then in the scene from a \nband with good ideas, who seemingly came out \nof nowhere, but who knew what they were from \nthe jump, and who just did it. \nDue to the band members' extracurriculars, \nPIG PEN is starting off as a contained explosion \nand a distilled expression, which is what the \nmusic itself is about. The subject matter on \nMental Madness sticks to themes that Matheson \ndescribes as ''mental health shit'': topics like \nisolation, loneliness, and ''letting your mind \ndestroy you.'' A representative sample: ''Teach \nme to hate myself, teach me not to care,'' bellows \nMatheson in ''Mental Mentality,'' the band's first \nsingle-''I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick,'' during the \nbridge. These are words that might ring an alarm \nbell, but sound perfectly at home in a hardcore \nsong, but are they ever just hardcore lyrics? \n\n''You can be having a beautiful day, surrounded \nby friends,'' Matheson explains, ''and your brain \ncan continuously ruin it. No matter how good \nor bad your life is, you can still hate yourself. \nI've got to ask myself why am I feeling the ways \nI'm feeling?'' In other words, the record is about \nexperiencing life, feeling all the feelings in the \nsunshine and the dark corners.\n If that's what the songs are about, the band is \nabout something different: just being a band. \n''Our love of each other is what makes it,'' \nsays Matheson. ''Joyousness,'' concurs Dan \nRomano. Friends having fun. It comes across \non the record as an expression of happiness. \nIs that a dichotomy? Not exactly. ''There's a \nsense of community in that hardcore scene \nwe came up in,'' says Romano, ''and those \nearly enlightenments, they stay with you.'' And \nthough everyone in the band has branched out \nsince those days, ''hardcore is always the same \nin some ways,'' Matheson says, ''this is a scene \nof giving, of sharing, of going the fuck off. That's \nit, really.'' That's PIG PEN.\n\n TRACK LIST\n 1. Rabid Beach\n 2. Heat Wave\n 3. PIG PEN\n 4. We Are Positive Energy\n 5. Mental Mentality\n 6. Highway Dreams\n 7. Venom Moon Rising\n 8. I'm Not Your Problem\n 9. The Howl And The Veil\n 10. XJXIXDX","brand":"Pig Pen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46616366088409,"sku":"843563189313","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/0468\/3425\/files\/evwxLmmw_1800x1800_62c2632b-192e-4af6-8690-ba7b68b2a806.jpg?v=1762282713","url":"https:\/\/drownedworldrecords.com\/en-jp\/products\/mental-madness-cassette-feat-matty-matheson-from-the-bear-with-members-of-alexisonfire-young-guv-more","provider":"Drowned World Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}