Industrial music icon PIG / Raymond Watts presents 'Fallout', previewing 'Feast of Agony' EP

September 16, 2024

Industrial music legend Raymond Watts a.k.a. PIG has shared his new single 'Fallout', undoubtedly the most catchy among the six coruscating tracks found on his new 'Feast of Agony' EP, out on September 27 via Metropolis Records.

This EP arrives on the trail of the remastered reissue of PIG's landmark 1995 ‘Sinsation’ album (originally released via Trent Reznor's Nothing Records) and his latest studio album ‘Red Room’, released earlier this year - both albums released via Metropolis.

Raymond Watts aka PIG has enjoyed a stellar career since starting out as a pioneering member of the mid-1980s industrial rock scene. As well as releasing fourteen albums as PIG, he has toured with KMFDM (he was a member of the band in their early days), Nine Inch Nails and Einstürzende Neubauten, written music for fashion and film (for Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston and The Row), created exhibition sound design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and collaborated with the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen.

'Feast of Agony' is the sound of PIG crushing the grinding wheel of grief with the seed of hope and relief. Watts’ anger burns and binds as he cooks up more kick-ass music, begging you to march to the drumbeat of hope with these encounters with the Lord of Lard, in which he brings word to wordless and truth to the truthless.

The EP kicks off with the monstrous 'Heroin for the Damned', screaming like a demon officiating at his own funeral while trying to stem the wounds of reality with the joy juice of depravity, which was co-written with Watts’ collaborator-in-chief Jim Davies, a longtime member of Pitchshifter, but best known for his acidic and acerbic guitar lines on many chart hits by The Prodigy,

The remaining tracks are a cure that’s kind… and a call to the deserts of desperation from the promised land of truth.

Watts will continue his oration against hopelessness, hypocrisy and the ever creeping tide of despair on PIG's ‘Heroin For The Damned’ tour across North America, kicking off on September 28. Joined by Curse Mackey and Unitcode : Machine, this 40-date itinerary follows PIG's headlining set at Cold Waves XII in Chicago.

As of September 27, the 'Feast of Agony' EP is available everywhere, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp, along with the 'Red Room' and 'Sinsation (Remastered)' albums. The vinyl edition of 'Feast of Agony' is only available on the tour. Tickets can be ordered at https://linktr.ee/ pigtour2024

CREDITS
All songs written by Watts, except 'Heroin for the Damned' (Raymond Watts/ Jim Davies)
and 'The Ratchet Effect' (Raymond Watts/ Mike Watts)
Music performed by Raymond Watts
Jim Davies - additional guitars & remix
Michelle Martinez - backing vocals on 'Baptise Bless & Bleed'
Produced & mixed by Raymond Watts
Additional production by Jim Davies
Recorded & mixed at Ranch Apocalypse and Otherwise Studios
Mastering by Tom Hall at Abbey Road
Artwork by Vlad McNeally
Photography by E Gabriel Edvy / Blackswitch Labs
Audio visual consultant - Mark Alan Griffiths
Released via Metropolis Records
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon at Shameless Promotion PR
'Fallout' video directed by Melody Myers

PIG

'Fallout' from 'Feast of Agony' EP

EP released on Metropolis Records. 'Heroin For The Damned' Tour starts Sept. 28

27 September 2024

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Industrial music icon PIG / Raymond Watts presents 'Fallout', previewing 'Feast of Agony' EP

FOR SHARING
'Fallout' video https://youtu.be/7kEzKqwGbAc
'Feast of Agony' EP order https://ingrv.es/feast-of-agony-gpp-g
Bandcamp https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/feast-of-agony
'Sinsation (Remastered)' album  https://pigindustries. bandcamp.com/album/sinsation- remastered
'Painiac' video https://youtu.be/3XmSj11f8wc
'Red Room' album  https://pigindustries. bandcamp.com/album/red-room
'Dum Dum Bullet' video  https://youtu.be/ eA5y9tiF0Fs
'Crumbs, Chaos and Lies' feat. Alexis Mincolla of 3Teeth  https://youtu.be/ HDpuAq9ONKU
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/artist/5riS4sDqcjVAwvC37jxTP0
TOUR TICKETS  https://linktr.ee/ pigtour2024

FOR REVIEW & AIRPLAY
Online press kit  https://haulix.promo/5ugk
Download via Google Drive https://bit.ly/3ye7oSG

Industrial music legend Raymond Watts a.k.a. PIG has shared his new single 'Fallout', undoubtedly the most catchy among the six coruscating tracks found on his new 'Feast of Agony' EP, out on September 27 via Metropolis Records.

This EP arrives on the trail of the remastered reissue of PIG's landmark 1995 ‘Sinsation’ album (originally released via Trent Reznor's Nothing Records) and his latest studio album ‘Red Room’, released earlier this year - both albums released via Metropolis.

Raymond Watts aka PIG has enjoyed a stellar career since starting out as a pioneering member of the mid-1980s industrial rock scene. As well as releasing fourteen albums as PIG, he has toured with KMFDM (he was a member of the band in their early days), Nine Inch Nails and Einstürzende Neubauten, written music for fashion and film (for Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston and The Row), created exhibition sound design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and collaborated with the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen.

'Feast of Agony' is the sound of PIG crushing the grinding wheel of grief with the seed of hope and relief. Watts’ anger burns and binds as he cooks up more kick-ass music, begging you to march to the drumbeat of hope with these encounters with the Lord of Lard, in which he brings word to wordless and truth to the truthless.

The EP kicks off with the monstrous 'Heroin for the Damned', screaming like a demon officiating at his own funeral while trying to stem the wounds of reality with the joy juice of depravity, which was co-written with Watts’ collaborator-in-chief Jim Davies, a longtime member of Pitchshifter, but best known for his acidic and acerbic guitar lines on many chart hits by The Prodigy,

The remaining tracks are a cure that’s kind… and a call to the deserts of desperation from the promised land of truth.

Watts will continue his oration against hopelessness, hypocrisy and the ever creeping tide of despair on PIG's ‘Heroin For The Damned’ tour across North America, kicking off on September 28. Joined by Curse Mackey and Unitcode : Machine, this 40-date itinerary follows PIG's headlining set at Cold Waves XII in Chicago.

As of September 27, the 'Feast of Agony' EP is available everywhere, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp, along with the 'Red Room' and 'Sinsation (Remastered)' albums. The vinyl edition of 'Feast of Agony' is only available on the tour. Tickets can be ordered at https://linktr.ee/ pigtour2024

CREDITS
All songs written by Watts, except 'Heroin for the Damned' (Raymond Watts/ Jim Davies)
and 'The Ratchet Effect' (Raymond Watts/ Mike Watts)
Music performed by Raymond Watts
Jim Davies - additional guitars & remix
Michelle Martinez - backing vocals on 'Baptise Bless & Bleed'
Produced & mixed by Raymond Watts
Additional production by Jim Davies
Recorded & mixed at Ranch Apocalypse and Otherwise Studios
Mastering by Tom Hall at Abbey Road
Artwork by Vlad McNeally
Photography by E Gabriel Edvy / Blackswitch Labs
Audio visual consultant - Mark Alan Griffiths
Released via Metropolis Records
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon at Shameless Promotion PR
'Fallout' video directed by Melody Myers

TRACK LIST
1 Heroin for the Damned
2 Fallout
3 Comedown
4 Hand of Mercy (Make The Cut)
5 The Ratchet Effect
6 Baptise Bless & Bleed (Red Line Remix by Jim Davies)

TOUR DATES 'Heroin For The Damned' Tour
9/28/24: Chicago, IL, @ Metro
9/ 29/24: Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze *
9/30/24: Des Moines, IA @ Lefty’s Live Music *
10/2/24: Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade *
10/3/24: Davenport, IA @ Raccoon Motel *
10/4/24: Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck *
10/5/24: Denver, CO Kulture Music Hall *
10/6/24: SLC, UT @ Quarters *
10/7/24: Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective *
10/9/24: Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s *
10/10/24: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon ^^
10/13/24: Portland, OR @ Dante’s ^^
10/15/24: Sacramento, CA @ Starlit Room ^^
10/16/24: SF, CA @ DNA ^^
10/17/24: San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop ^^
10/18/24: Las Vegas, NV @ Sinwave ^^
10/19/24: Los Angeles, CA @ Catch One ^^
10/20/24: Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock ^^
10/21/24: Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad ^^
10/23/24: OK City @ Beer City ^^
10/24/24: Dallas, TX @ Three Links ^^
10/25/24 - Houston TX @ Secret Group *
10/26/24: Austin, TX @ Elysium *
10/27/24: New Orleans, LA @ Santos *
10/29/24: Pensacola, FL @ Handlebar *
10/30/24: Orlando, Fl @ Handlebar *
11/1/24: West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street *
11/2/24: Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly *
11/3/24: Greenville, SC @ Radio Room *
11/5/24: Atlanta, GA @ Star Bar *
11/6/24: Richmond, VA @ Fallout *
11/7/24: Baltimore, MD @ Metro Baltimore *
11/8/24: New York, NY @ STIMULATE *
11/9/24 - Wilmington DE @ Bar 13 *
11/10/24: Millersville, PA @ Phantom Power *
11/12/24: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East *
11/13/24: Quebec City, QC @ L’anti Bar *
11/14/24: Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Fous *
11/15/24: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
11/16/24: Detroit, MI @ Smalls *
11/17/24: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern *

* dates with Unitcode : Machine
^^ dates with Curse Mackey and Unitcode : Machine

PIG (a.k.a. Raymond Watts) releases 'Red Room' album via Metropolis Records, announcing North American tour

July 30, 2024

Raymond Watts a.k.a. PIG has released his new album 'Red Room' on CD and digitally via Metropolis Records and on vinyl via Armalyte Industries, and will be bringing the album to life through the colossal ‘Heroin For The Damned’ tourwith Curse Mackey and Unitcode : Machine. The 40-date itinerary follows a headlining set at Cold Waves XII in Chicago on September 28.

Following the 2022 album ‘The Merciless Light’, ‘Red Room’ is the sound of Watts beating the hammer of hope on the anvil of despair. But, far from being the dying light of decay, this is a spark, an ember and a torch in transition, lighting up the house of PIG before Watts burns it up and blows it down, cutting through yhrscaly rind to PIG's tender heart and soft underbelly.

Earlier, PIG shared the thunderous intro track ‘Crumbs Chaos & Lies’ featuring Alexis Mincolla (3Teeth) with a riveting video by the elusive visionary Ibex, and the lead track ‘Dum Dum Bullet’ with a penetrating video by E Gabriel Edvy for Blackswitch Labs. This anthem features a choir of iconic guests that include Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks, Ministry), I Ya Toyah, En Esch (KMFDM), Emily Kavanaugh (Night Club), Chris Hall (Stabbing Westward), Burton C Bell (Fear Factory, Ascension of the Watchers) and Marc Heal (Cubanate).

Watts co-wrote much of ‘Red Room’ with Jim Davies of Pitchshifter, best known for his acidic and acerbic guitar lines on many chart hits by The Prodigy. Other guests include Chris Hall (Stabbing Westward), who delivers a soaring vocal performance on ‘The Sick Man's Prayer’, Watts' old KMFDM bandmate Günther Schulz (a.k.a. 'The Czar of Guitar'), who appears on the anthemic ‘Dirty Mercy’, and the great jazz trumpeter Enrico Tomasso (who has worked on and off with Watts for three decades), who brings his deft and delicate touch to ‘PIG Is At The Window’.

'Red Room' album order  https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/red-room
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/0sQy98y0v0ApSR8MnzaMeW
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/ca/album/red-room/1743960219
'Dum Dum Bullet'  https://youtu.be/eA5y9tiF0Fs
'Crumbs, Chaos & Lies' feat. Alexis Mincolla (3Teeth)  https://youtu.be/HDpuAq9ONKU

Watts has had a stellar career since cutting his teeth in the mid-1980s industrial rock scene as a member of KMFDM. Apart from releasing 14 albums as PIG, he has toured with Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM and Einstürzende Neubauten, written music for fashion and film (Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston, The Row), and even did sound design for the exhibition 'Punk: Chaos to Couture' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Watts also collaborated with the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen, who commissioned him (with John Gosling) to embellish the serene instrumental track ‘Inside’ (from PIG's 1999 album ‘Genuine American Monster’) for the soundtrack to ‘Plato’s Atlantis’. The show was reprised after McQueen’s untimely death in as the finale of ‘Savage Beauty', a posthumous retrospective that broke all records at both The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

'Red Room' is out now, available on CD and digitally from fine online platforms, including Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp. On August 23, PIG will also re-release the seminal album 'Sinsation (Remastered)', originally released in the mid-1990s on Trent Reznor's label Nothing Records.

ALBUM CREDITS
Raymond Watts
Jim Davies
With: En Esch, Michelle Martinez, Günter Schulz, Chris Hall, Alexis Mincolla, Mike Watts, Enrico Tomasso, Anita Kyoda
The PIG choir: Emily Kavanaugh, Burton C Bell, Chris Connelly, Marc Heal, En Esch, Kanga, Susannah Doyle, Anita Kyoda, Chris Hall, I Ya Toyah, Jim Davies, Mark Alan Griffiths, Mike Watts, Jimmy Livingstone
All songs written by Raymond Watts / Jim Davies, except Tracks 8, 9, 10 (Raymond Watts) and Track 11 (Raymond Watts / Michael Watts)
Produced & mixed by Raymond Watts
Additional production by Jim Davies
Recorded & mixed at Ranch Apocalypse and Otherwise Studios
Additional recordings made in Sydney, Vancouver, Berlin, Los Angeles
Mastering by Tom Hall at Abbey Road
Artwork - Vlad McNeally
Photography – E Gabriel Edvy / Blackswitch Labs
Audio visual consultant - Mark Alan Griffiths
Publicity by Shauna McLarnon at Shameless Promotion PR

TOUR DATES (with Curse Mackey and Unitcode : Machine)
9/28/24: Chicago, IL, @ Metro
9/ 29/24: Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze
9/30/24: Des Moines, IA @ Lefty’s Live Music
10/2/24: Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
10/3/24: Davenport, IA @ Raccoon Motel
10/4/24: Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
10/5/24: Denver, CO Kulture Music Hall
10/6/24: SLC, UT @ Quarters
10/7/24: Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective
10/9/24: Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s
10/10/24: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
10/13/24: Portland, OR @ Dante’s
10/15/24: Sacramento, CA @ Starlit Room
10/16/24: SF, CA @ DNA
10/17/24: San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop
10/18/24: Las Vegas, NV @ Sinwave
10/19/24: Los Angeles, CA @ Catch One
10/20/24: Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock
10/21/24: Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
10/23/24: OK City @ Beer City
10/24/24: Dallas, TX @ Three Links
10/26/24: Austin, TX @ Elysium
10/27/24: New Orleans, LA @ Santos
10/29/24: Pensacola, FL @ Handlebar
10/30/24: Orlando, Fl @ Handlebar
11/1/24: West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street
11/2/24: Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly
11/3/24: Greenville, SC @ Radio Room
11/5/24: Atlanta, GA @ Star Bar
11/6/24: Richmond, VA @ Fallout
11/7/24: Baltimore, MD @ Metro Baltimore
11/8/24: New York, NY @ STIMULATE
11/10/24: Millersville, PA @ Phantom Power
11/12/24: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
11/13/24: Quebec City, QC @ L’anti Bar
11/14/24: Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Fous
11/15/24: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
11/16/24: Detroit, MI @ Smalls
11/17/24: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern

THE 6IX GVNG Unleash PIG!

March 19, 2023

New England Rap / Metal band THE 6IX GVNG has released the official music video for "PIG," Filmed, edited, and directed by James "Squatch" Joyce, "PIG" is off of the band's new EP, Black Magic & Trap Houses.

"Black Magic & Trap Houses is a love story about Drugs, Death and the Dark Arts. It's like a 6 song journey through the mind of the Devil on a murder spree as he comes down from a coke binge." - THE 6IX GVNG

Purchase / Stream 'Black Magic & Trap Houses' Online

Hailing from New England, The 6ix is an up and coming music act with a penchant for delivering infectious tunes, bringing audiences on a sonic escapade. This hardcore hip hop group hailing from Maine/Vermont has a unique sound that is a distinct blend of trap music, heavy metal, and chopper rap. With their high-energy live shows and crowd interaction, they're quickly becoming a must see act for hip hop/metal lovers alike.

Formed in 2020, They have been working together on different projects and groups since 2017. Most heavily influenced by trap, hardcore hip hop and heavy metal, you will find the embodiment of many genres in their music. Drawing inspiration from notable acts such as Tech N9ne, $uicideboy$, Cannibal Corpse, (Hed) P.E. and Slipknot. They've toured with artists such as Twiztid, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, and Bizarre of D12 in addition to directly supporting numerous hip hop acts including Tech N9ne, Chris Webby, and Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse.

Their debut EP, "Black Magic & Trap Houses," is set to drop on all streaming services on March 17, 2023. You can expect to see The 6ix this summer in a city near you, as they embark on a massive tour in 2023 to celebrate the release of their project with the fans.