Vienna, Austria’s DESOLAT return with the furious new single “Pig Race To The Apocalypse,” offering the first glimpse into their upcoming third full-length, People As Idiots & Idiots As Leaders. The politically charged trio continues to blur the lines between hardcore punk, noise rock, sludge, and raw anarcho-punk intensity, creating music that feels less like entertainment and more like a confrontation with everything going wrong around us.
At the center of DESOLAT’s music is frustration. The band doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable realities or attempt to soften its perspective. Instead, People As Idiots & Idiots As Leaders follows a deliberately bleak emotional progression, beginning with an examination of society and its failures before sinking deeper into depression, rage, cynicism, and eventually resignation.
“Pig Race To The Apocalypse” arrives near the beginning of that journey. Following “Idiots As Leaders,” the track continues the album’s examination of a world that seems increasingly difficult to make sense of. Its title alone carries a sarcastic bite, turning the idea of humanity racing toward its own destruction into something simultaneously absurd and terrifying.
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Musically, the song is just as chaotic as its subject matter. DESOLAT lean into jagged noise-rock guitars, pounding hardcore rhythms, abrasive textures, and a sense of constant instability. Influences from The Jesus Lizard and Helmet can be felt throughout the track, particularly in its groove-driven aggression and angular approach, but DESOLAT inject their own punk fury into the formula.
There is something almost physical about the song. Rather than simply telling listeners that the world is falling apart, “Pig Race To The Apocalypse” makes that collapse feel immediate. The instrumentation lurches forward with an uneasy momentum, creating the strange sensation of wanting to move your body while simultaneously realizing exactly what you’re dancing toward.
That contrast is what makes the track particularly effective. It’s angry without becoming one-dimensional, heavy without relying solely on volume, and sarcastic without losing sight of the seriousness underneath it all.
Guitarist and vocalist Alfred Satani describes the track as the second song on the album focused on examining the current state of the world, admitting bluntly that things aren’t looking particularly good. That honesty is essentially the foundation of DESOLAT’s approach. There isn’t a neatly packaged solution here—just anger, awareness, and the uncomfortable realization that sometimes laughing at the absurdity of everything may be the only way to keep from screaming.
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