The anger of PIG head hog Raymond Watts burns and binds as he cooks up more of the kick-ass on his coruscating new EP, ‘Feast of Agony’.
He begs listeners to march to the drumbeat of hope with six epic songs and encounters with the Lord of Lard, in which he brings word to the wordless and truth to the truthless.
The EP kicks off with ‘Heroin for the Damned’, a monstrous song co-written with Watts’ Collaborator in Chief Jim Davies that screams like a demon officiating at his own funeral while trying to stem the wounds of reality with the joy juice of depravity. The accompanying tracks ‘Fallout’, ‘Comedown’, ‘Hand of Mercy’, ‘The Ratchet Effect’ and ‘Baptise Bless & Bleed’ are a cure that’s kind…and a call to the deserts of desperation from the promised land of truth.
In summary, ‘Feast of Agony’ is the sound of PIG crushing the grinding wheel of grief with the seed of hope and relief.‘Feast of Agony’ follows the recent remastered reissue of PIG’s landmark 1995 album ‘Sinsation’ and the 2024 studio album ‘Red Room’, both of which are available via Metropolis Records.
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 this autumn.
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, 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.
Watts also collaborated with the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen, who commissioned him (with John Gosling) to embellish the serene instrumental track ‘Inside’ (from the 1999 PIG album ‘Genuine American Monster’ album) 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.
Much of PIG’s 2024 studio album ‘Red Room’ was co-written 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.