First Listen: Pig Destroyer, 'Head Cage'

is long overdue for its revved-up rock and roll reckoning. Now, the metal band's sixth album in two decades doesn't strut like some glammed-up rock star in tight jeans or trade in the pit for theater seats, but does curl its barbed-wire riffs into something like a gnarled swagger. Songs regularly push the three-minute mark, grooves are explored at a prowling pace, guitarist Scott Hull's simultaneously spiraling and exacting riffs are bared with accessible