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PIG

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industrial metal

Beschreibung

There are more than one artist named PIG.

1) In his past lives, PIG was Lord Raymond Watts, known variously as Raymond Scaballero in Foetus, an icy addition to Psychic TV, a savage PA destroyer in Einstürzende Neubauten, and a founding catalyst of KMFDM. Watts began his arrest record in London where he was most likely pissed off about something and doing sound manipulations, loops and live sound for Psychic TV. He soon crashed into Einstürzende Neubauten (probably in a strip bar) and escaped the smug complacency of the English music scene by moving to Hamburg, Germany and setting up his Building Site studio in a bunker of munitions factory, where he invited in artists including Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Die Haut, and Christiane F. In his pursuit of a cutting edge music scene he sought out like-minded souls to create terrorism instead of tonality. Playing on European/American Neubauten tours, he quickly earned a reputation for destroying PA systems -- the security guards sent by the PA companies to protect the gear were not amused. Between their security thugs and ones hired by Watts to protect him from them, most nights ended up bloody, tense and occasionally on fire.

While collaborating with Neubauten's "gritter" twins: Blixa Bargeld and FM Einheit, Watts lived in the red light district next to a brothel, in amongst the sleaze of the Hamburg docks. Watts heard about Sascha Konietzko who was doing bizarre work with vacuum cleaners, and after drinking him into submission, dragged him and his tall, pale cohort En Esch down the stairs into the freezing Building Site studio, where they locked themselves into Watts' "frozen cesspit" with 20' steel sheets and other garbage, emerging with the debut What Do You Know Deutschland?

As one of the architects of the KMFDM sound, Watts went east to plow through the entrails of the German avant garde, planting the seed of his new experiment while KMFDM moved to America. The mutant was born out of the blood and piss in a basement studio opposite the Berlin Wall and became the 1988 debut album A Poke In The Eye. In addition, Watts was recruited by Foetus (Jim Thirwell) to be in his first live band, and after a European tour which involved disappearances, catholic school girls, and worms, Thirwell stayed on the produce the 12" Shit for Brains. Watts said he'd buy the next round and went to the US to record Steroid Maximus with Thirwell, and also did sound for Crime & the City Solution.

When the wall came down, Watts split his time between London and Tokyo, looking for a new alien habitat after Berlin's pleasure dome exploded. PIG morphed with various collaborators and Watts started working with Japanese musicians, turning his attention to Schaft, which became a huge hit there. The Watts system emerged as an elastic style of working with refuse and collaborating with pariahs: one man's trash is another man's treasure, darling.

Long-time PIG fan Trent Reznor came to see him around '91/'92 at a tiny club in Camden, England and introduced himself to the unimpressed Watts who was surprised that this fellow knew most of PIG's scattered discography. PIG was invited to open Nine Inch Nails' European tour in '94 -- complete with real pig heads on stage that were a load of fun after a few days' decomposition. Later, in 1995, Reznor's Nothing label released his fourth album, Sinsation.

In the mid 1990s, Konietzko ran into Watts again and they worked on the Sin, Sex & Salvation EP, which led to Watts returning to the fold for Nihil, the most successful KMFDM album to date, which included the Watts-penned hit Juke Joint Jezebel. Watts also appeared on the band's Symbols album, doing vocals on the delightfully-titled Spit Sperm and Unfit, while KMFDM's Gunter Schulz and Sascha Konietzko appear on the 1997 release Wrecked, furthering their incestuous relationship.

Still bigger in Japan than the rest of the world, PIG released his sixth album, Genuine American Monster, there in 1999. Finally, in 2002, PIG found a new American home with the Metropolis Records label, who had that year recently released the album ATTAK.

In 2012 PIG released two demos; written by Watts; and performed by Watts and Marc Heal (Cubanate) entitled: Drugzilla (Rough As A Hog's Arse Mix) released on June 8th; Shake (Rough Mix) released on July 14th; and Drugzilla (Pork Talk Mix by Raymond Watts) released on December 2nd.

2) PIG are a Japanese melodic punk band from Japan. http://www.audioleaf.com/piggip3/

3) pig used to be the alias of Oscar Lang when he first started releasing music in 2017. In 2019 however, he started releasing under his real name, and with that the already released pig releases were re-released under Oscar Lang.

4) Pig is a Beatmaker who became known for his '' dirty '' beats so he earned the nickname Pig which was adopted with an artistic name. Producer and Beatmaker for more than 5 years, he has accumulated several experiences in his career, with more than 15 million Streams.

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Plato’s Atlantis

2026-03-27

The Merciful Night von PIG – Album Cover

The Merciful Night

2025-11-14

Red Room von PIG – Album Cover

Red Room

2024-05-17

The Merciless Light von PIG – Album Cover

The Merciless Light

2022-09-23

Pain Killer von PIG – Album Cover

Pain Killer

2021-09-03

Pain Is God von PIG – Album Cover

Pain Is God

2020-11-20

Stripped & Ripped von PIG – Album Cover

Stripped & Ripped

2020-07-01

Candy von PIG – Album Cover

Candy

2019-06-21

Stripped & Whipped von PIG – Album Cover

Stripped & Whipped

2019-02-19

Risen von PIG – Album Cover

Risen

2018-06-08

Swine & Punishment von PIG – Album Cover

Swine & Punishment

2017-05-05

The Gospel von PIG – Album Cover

The Gospel

2016-09-09

Sturm & Drang Tour 2002 von PIG – Album Cover

Sturm & Drang Tour 2002

2002-11-05

Genuine American Monster von PIG – Album Cover

Genuine American Monster

1999-12-01

The Swining / Red Raw & Sore von PIG – Album Cover

The Swining / Red Raw & Sore

1999-11-02

Prime Evil von PIG – Album Cover

Prime Evil

1997-01-22

Wrecked von PIG – Album Cover

Wrecked

1996-07-24

Sinsation von PIG – Album Cover

Sinsation

1995-04-21

Sin Sex & Salvation von PIG – Album Cover

Sin Sex & Salvation

1994-12-06

Red Raw & Sore von PIG – Album Cover

Red Raw & Sore

1994

The Swining von PIG – Album Cover

The Swining

1993

A Stroll in the Pork von PIG – Album Cover

A Stroll in the Pork

1992

Praise the Lard von PIG – Album Cover

Praise the Lard

1991-07-26

A Poke in the Eye… With a Sharp Stick von PIG – Album Cover

A Poke in the Eye… With a Sharp Stick

1988

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