

Deciding that "Cop Killer" or "Cop Destroyer" would be tactless, they eventually settled on "Pig Destroyer" ("pig" being a pejorative American slang term for the police).

In an interview, Scott Hull claims that they picked the band name on the criteria that it was insulting, yet somewhat more creative than the name of his last band, Anal Cunt. After the departure of Evans, he was soon replaced by Brian Harvey. Hayes ( Enemy Soil), guitarist Scott Hull ( Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, ex- Anal Cunt), and drummer John Evans, who left the band for an unspecified school not long after the band's formation. The band formed in 1997 after the break-up of a short-lived political hardcore band, Treblinka, with 2 former members of said band, vocalist J.
