Industrial glam kingpin Raymond Watts and his chief songwriting partner in swine Jim Davies (ex-Prodigy and Pitchshifter) recently announced that PIG has given birth to a healthy new album, ‘Hurt People Hurt’.
Weighing in at 10 tracks, this latest addition to the PIG bloodline will be released into the wild on 22nd May 2026.
‘Sex & Suicide’ is out NOW as a new single ahead of the album. “This is a song of pain, pleasure, obsession and possession, written for the departed, the broken-hearted and the newly started,” states Watts. “It’s a walk on the high-wire blade of want for something so bad you beg for release.”
‘Sex & Suicide’ can be streamed HERE, with a lyric video directed by Grete Stitch Laus viewable HERE. The second track to be lifted from the upcoming album, it follows the recently issued ‘Tosca’s Kiss’ STREAM | VIDEO, a song inspired by Watts’ well-known love of opera.
The new album follows the dirt directly to the dustcart where misfits and reprobates can both lose and find themselves in a full fat emporium of ecstasy, naked words and momentous music. Plucked and sucked on the fruits of pain and bliss, this prime slice of PIG provides a light space for dark spirits. Enter bruised, leave changed.
PIG will be performing in the US on the opening day of the Dark Force Fest in Parsippany, New Jersey on 1st May, plus just announced September shows in Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin as part of the Cold Waves XIV festival. In Japan, a date in Tokyo on 26th June sold out immediately, with another to be added soon.
HURT PEOPLE HURT
TRACKLIST
1 Tosca’s Kiss
2 Monkey See Monkey Do
3 Sex & Suicide
4 Hurt People Hurt
5 Scars
6 Quid Pro Quo
7 Ruins
8 DNA
9 Imposter
10 The Reaper’s Lament
Raymond Watts has an impressive resumé. Aside from fourteen albums as PIG, he has worked with stalwarts of the global industrial scene such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus and Psychic TV, in Japan with the bands Schwein and Schaft, and was a founder member of electronic rock band KMFDM with a key writing and vocal role on their best known songs of the ‘80s/’90s.
Watts has also written music for film, TV, advertising and fashion shows in Europe, Japan and America. His work in fashion includes ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ (Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York) and ‘Plato’s Atlantis’ for the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen, which was reprised as ‘Savage Beauty’ (MMOA and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London).
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