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Industrial glam kingpin Raymond Watts and his chief songwriting partner in swine Jim Davies (ex-Prodigy and Pitchshifter) are proud to announce 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 was released into the wild on 22nd May 2026.

The album follows the dirt directly to the dustcart where misfits and reprobates can both lose and find themselves in this 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.

‘Tosca’s Kiss’ is out now as the album’s first single. Inspired by Watts’ well-known love of opera, it’s a song for the strong of stomach but not the faint of heart. A video for it directed by E Gabriel Edvy of Blackswitch Labs can be seen

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).

PIG

‘HURT PEOPLE HURT’

new album

LP | CD | digital

(Metropolis Records)

includes the single

TOSCA’S KISS