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Watch KING PARROT’s “Target Pig Elite” video HERE.
“Target Pig Elite” is the latest single from Australia’s raucous marauding, grindcore ensemble KING PARROT. The track comes by way of the band’s long-awaited new full-length, A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot, set for release on June 6th via Housecore Records in North America!
The video footage for “Target Pig Elite” is taken from the band’s recent hometown show at Max Watt’s in Melbourne. Expertly curated by video producer Dan Farmer, it also features artistic animation elements from the band’s late artistic collaborator Boyd Synnott. With the blessing of Boyd’s family, the band has incorporated elements of Boyd’s artwork animation that fit perfectly with the theme of the new song.
Vocalist Matt Young comments, “This is a special one for us as we’ve really wanted to honor our late friend Boyd Synnott with this new record. His massive contributions to our band over the years cannot be understated. It’s his artwork idea and concept for the album cover too. Incorporating his animation with this intense live footage adds a unique element that serves both song and video well.
“Lyrically, the track is self-explanatory. The world is moving into unprecedented times and rather than turning on each other, our aim should be focused on those causing the chaos in this world.”
Watch KING PARROT’s “Target Pig Elite” video HERE.
Watch the band’s previously released video for “Fuck You And The Horse You Rode In On” HERE.
A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot will be released on CD, LP, cassette, and digital formats. Find physical preorders at the Housecore Records webshop HERE, Bandcamp HERE, and all other digital services HERE.
A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot marks KING PARROT’s first new output in five years. A hostile and abrasive slab of sensory destroying anthems, the record features ten thoroughly crafted blasts through the psyche of this crazed Aussie quintet. Recorded at Melbourne’s Dangertone studios with engineer Luke Walton, it’s the first full-length album since 2017’s critically adored Ugly Produce offering and their first new music since 2022’s Holed Up In The Lair EP.
Applying a similar approach to the writing process of their previous records, which has been historically organic and old-school, KING PARROT adopted a new approach to the studio process. Pulling the new record together was a meticulously creative endeavour steered by guitarist Andrew Livingstone-Squires and vocalist Matt Young who comments, “Throughout the mixing process, we ensured that we got every element where we wanted it. Guitar and bass tones were experimented with until we found exactly what we wanted, the drum sounds were just right, and the performance was executed solidly. Vocally, I rehearsed a lot so that when I recorded it was a breeze.” The final product is the most complete, aggressive, and urgent the band has ever sounded.
A Young Person’s Guide To King Parrot Track Listing:
1. Get What Ya Given
2. Fuck You And The Horse You Rode In On
3. Cunning As A Dunny Rat
4. It’s A Rort
5. Punish The Runt
6. Target Pig Elite
7. I Got The Right
8. Look Away I’m Hideous
9. Glazed And Diseased In Defeat
10. Pissing On The Fist Of The Law
KING PARROT wrapped up a three-week tour through Europe alongside Pantera and Power Trip earlier this week at Wembley Arena in London, a truly massive feat for the band. Young notes, “It’s been an absolute blast to tour alongside Pantera in Europe and the UK and to see so many fans coming out, young and old, to celebrate the legacy of the band. Pantera are more popular than ever and rightly so; those songs are untouchable. Sharing the road with Power Trip has also been an incredible experience, great dudes and phenomenal band. It’s great to see them back out and playing live where they belong.”
European fans can catch more of KING PARROT all over the continent as they continue the journey with death metal legends Master through March. “Touring alongside Master and paying our respects to the death metal legends is something we don’t take for granted. Anyone who is educated on death metal knows that Master have been there from the beginning, and for [vocalist/bassist] Paul [Speckmann] and the band to be continuing after all these years is a remarkable accomplishment.”
KING PARROT w/ Master:
2/28/2025 Gulfhaus – Vechta, DE
3/01/2025 Waalhalla – Nijmegen, NL
3/02/2025 Goldgrube – Kassel, DE
3/05/2025 Piaty Dom – Katowice, PL
3/06/2025 Liverpool – Wroclaw, PL
3/07/2025 Escape Metalcorner – Wien, AT
3/08/2025 Livestage – Innsbruck, AT
3/09/2025 Randal Club – Bratislava, SK
3/10/2025 Form Space – Cluj-Napoca, RO
3/11/2025 Quantic – Bucharest, RO
3/12/2025 Grindhouse Skateclub – Sofia, BG
3/13/2025 Fabrika –Novi Sad, SB
3/14/2025 Palach – Rijeka, KR
3/19/2025 Alte Hackerei – Karlsruhe, DE
3/21/2025 East Club – Bischofswerda, DE
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