Trivia / Pyrrhon

• Creator Backlash: Their pre-Mother material. They actually don't hate it, per se, but the general opinion is that it was from a cruder, less refined songwriting era that does not really reflect them as a band, particularly in terms of its more structured nature (as improvisation has become an important part of their live show).
• The Pete Best: Mike Sheen.
• Screwed by the Network: Relapse unceremoniously threw them off the label after The Mother of Virtues failed to live up to sales goals, and they currently do not have the rights to the album.
• Troubled Production: An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master.
  • For one thing, Doug and Alex had both graduated from college during the height of the Great Recession, and in the absence of any real meaningful career plans (which Doug had absolutely zero faith in), Doug moved to Brooklyn and bussed tables with Dylan while living in a ramshackle apartment building that steadily became a full-blown trap house once some crack dealers set up shop in the lobby (one of whom was murdered in the building a week before recording). Alex, meanwhile, almost left the band before the album was even recorded, but was persuaded by Doug and Dylan to stay; had he left, Pyrrhon probably would have broken up permanently. Once they finally managed to book some studio time, they persuaded a friend to let them use his college's radio to record prepro first; the results were so sloppy and slapdash that the band frantically tried to rehearse enough to be able to go into the studio with some degree of competence and not burn through takes and spend more money that they didn't have.
  • When they entered the studio, austerity was the name of the game, as they were in the middle of nowhere in South Jersey and lived off sandwiches from Wawa while sleeping in a decrepit motel with mold issues and a broken HVAC system that made the rooms bone-chillingly cold in the middle of the winter; the studio also didn't have a bathroom and their producer's parents (whose house the studio occupied) refused to let them use the one in the house, and so they urinated on a patch of bare dirt that became charmingly known as the "piss swamp". Furthermore, early 2011 saw a brutal winter, which led to many harrowing drives to and from the motel and/or the local Wawa. Doug also had a great deal of difficulty with tracking his parts as the sessions went on, as he wrote parts that were often at the edge of what he could comfortably pull off, and the title track wound up being done in a single take by a stroke of grand luck, as Doug's voice would have been spent had he had to redo anything.
  • The last issue came when the album was being mixed, as they wanted a rougher and grittier mix, while their producer wanted a clean, polished modern death metal mix, and when they sent him Colin Marston's final master, he was irate and demanded that they go with his idea. The ensuing argument permanently destroyed Doug's friendship with the producer (who had been a college buddy of his) and likely caused him to leave music permanently, and the two are still not on speaking terms to this day. While the band was generally pleased with the results and they did have fun purely as a group of friends, Doug made it clear that it was also a miserable experience.
• Write What You Know: Glorious Depravity (Doug's side project with members of Mutilation Rites and Woe) was specifically intended to be a musical homage to the bands that got them into death metal in their early teens; as per Doug, their gateway bands were Cannibal Corpse and Carcass, among others, and they weren't going to pretend that they were always deep in the underground when they most certainly were not.

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