UK-based electro/industrial act PIG has dropped the first single and video, "Crumbs Chaos & Lies (featuring Alexis Mincolla)", from its approaching album, Red Room, slated for release on 17 May via Metropolis Records.
Raymond Watts aka PIG has enjoyed a stellar career since starting 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 its early days), Nine Inch Nails and Einstürzende Neubauten, written music for fashion and film for Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston, The Row, as well as creating the sound design for the exhibition "Punk: Chaos to Couture" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Red Room is the follow-up to 2022's The Merciless Light and is the sound of Watts beating the hammer of hope on the anvil of despair. However, far from being the dying light of decay, it is rather a spark and an ember, a torch in transition lighting up the house of PIG before Watts burns it up and blows it down, cutting through the scaly rind of PIG to the tender heart and the soft underbelly of the boar.
Watts has co-written much of Red Room with Jim Davies, a longtime member of Pitchshifter but best known for his acidic and acerbic guitar lines on many chart hits by The Prodigy. Several regular cohorts are also present and correct, along with some new additions most majestically heard on "Dum Dum Bullet" as the PIG choir: Emily Kavanaugh (Night Club), Chris Hall (Stabbing Westward), Burton C Bell (Fear Factory, Ascension Of The Watchers), I Ya Toyah, Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks, Ministry), En Esch (KMFDM) and Marc Heal (Cubanate) are among those featured.
Thunderous introductory single "Crumbs Chaos & Lies" sees an appearance by Alexis Mincolla (3Teeth) and is accompanied by a video made by the elusive visionary Ibex. Watts says of the song: "I like to wrap the poison sweets in the finest treats and envisioned this as the sound of PIG officiating at my own funeral". Link
Red Room tracklist:
01. Crumbs Chaos & Lies
02. Red Room
03. Dum Dum Bullet
04. Does It Hurt Yet
05. Trash Temple
06. Slave To Pleasure
07. The Sick Man's Prayer
08. Six Eye Sand Spider
09. Dirty Mercy
10. PIG Is At The Window
11. Body Count
12. False Flag
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