Pressure of Violent Anguish with Speak and Destroy, in an interview, Tairrie said: "Mick came in and had a lot of ideas that were really, really cool and a lot heavier." In the same interview Mick commented: "I jumped into this band head first. I had a lot of musical ideas. I like to write, I like to write a lot. I like to be in control of what's going on musically, and we pushed her, encouraged her to do a heavy record." He also went on to say that: "We did it because that's just the way I write music. One thing led to another, and before you know it we've got this brutally heavy album. I'm totally happy about that because I think metal needs to be raw, and not necessarily easy to listen to. I think that this record is truly heavy, so I'm proud of it." The album was met with favourable reviews worldwide, with Kerrang! rating it 4 K's out of 5 and Metal Hammer rating it 8 out of 10.A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish was released in September 2000. While the band were busy releasing A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish in the UK and Europe via Snapper Music, Speak and Destroy was simultaneously released in the US via Spitfire Records. A year later in 2001, A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish was released in the US via Spitfire Records. Cover songs "Do You Love Me?" and "My War" For this record, the band would cover two songs. The first being Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Do You Love Me? and hidden track, My War originally by Black Flag (band). It has been well documented throughout Tairrie's career in interviews that she is a big fan of Nick Cave. Mick has also stated that Black Flag (band) is a big inspiration of his and that he previously covered the song My War in his prior band Movement. Tairrie liked the sound of it so they decided to cover the song, which became a duet between the two. Mick and Tairrie would occasionally duet on a couple of songs through the vast My Ruin back catalogue. Such duets include the 2005 cover of Mudhoney's Touch Me I'm Sick which featured on the band's The Brutal Language record and more recently Repose from the band's Ghosts and Good Stories record. In