The newly released track brings Cat Hall of Dissonance back to a song first heard on Dogtablet’s 2021 album Pearldrop Blue.
A Familiar Star in a New Form
Dogtablet have released “Star (2026),” a rework of “Star” from Pearldrop Blue. That earlier recording featured Cat Hall of Dissonance; she returns with words and vocals on the new version. Dogtablet’s Bandcamp credits Steve White of KMFDM and PIG on guitar and Jules Seifert of Epic Audio Media on mastering.
Revisiting Pearldrop Blue
The original “Star” opened Pearldrop Blue in 2021. Five years later, Dogtablet’s decision to revisit it gives listeners a direct way to hear how the song has changed, with Hall’s voice still central to its identity. The new track is available on Dogtablet’s Bandcamp page, which also offers it with the Our Lives T-shirt.
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“Star (2026)” is a released rework of an existing Dogtablet song, rather than a track from a newly announced album.
Industrial provocateur Raymond Watts returns with four new PIG songs and four remixes engineered to grind beauty, brutality, and black humor into the same bloodstained machine.
Four New Cuts from the Lord of the Lard 💀
PIG released Dirt Box on September 4 through Metropolis Records, delivering an eight-track companion piece to the May 2026 album Hurt People Hurt. The EP combines four original songs with four remixes, expanding the current era of Raymond Watts’ long-running industrial-rock project without simply repackaging its recent material.
“An American Ideal of Beauty” opens the box with a collision of mechanical aggression and decadent theatricality. The track reunites Watts with Marc Heal of Cubanate and C-Tec, former KMFDM guitarist Günter Schulz, and longtime collaborator Jim Davies, formerly of The Prodigy and Pitchshifter.
The remaining originals—“Your Reptilian Overlord Presents,” “Infidel,” and “Butterfly”—push the release through different shades of menace. PIG’s familiar mixture of distorted electronics, muscular guitars, dark sensuality, and lyrical provocation remains intact, but the compact EP format keeps every attack immediate.
Industrial Machinery Rewired by Four Remixers ⚙️
The second half of Dirt Box hands each original composition to a different artist from the industrial underground. Cyanotic reconstructs “Your Reptilian Overlord Presents,” Stabbing Westward reshapes “An American Ideal of Beauty,” Combichrist takes control of “Butterfly,” and Rabbit Junk drives “Infidel” through its own abrasive circuitry.
These versions give the EP a deliberate mirrored structure: four songs establish the source material, then four remixers dismantle and rebuild it. Instead of behaving like leftover bonus content, the remixes expose different rhythmic, electronic, and guitar-driven possibilities buried inside the originals.
That collaborative approach fits naturally into PIG’s history. Watts has spent decades moving between industrial rock, electronic experimentation, performance art, and gloriously filthy theatrical excess. His résumé stretches through Psychic TV, Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, and KMFDM, where he helped shape the band’s early identity and later contributed to landmark material including “Juke Joint Jezebel.”
Released alongside PIG’s extensive Hurt People Tour of North America, Dirt Box captures an artist still treating collaboration as a weapon. It is compact, confrontational, and packed with enough grime to leave fingerprints on the machinery.
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Dirt Box does not ask listeners to choose between beauty and brutality. PIG throws both into the same enclosure, locks the door, and lets eight tracks determine which one crawls out alive.
Raymond Watts pushes PIG into even heavier territory with a brutal new collaboration featuring industrial legends, while setting the stage for a new EP and an extensive North American tour this fall.
Industrial Royalty Reunites for a Ferocious New Single
UK industrial icon Raymond Watts, better known as PIG, has unveiled his explosive new single, “An American Ideal Of Beauty,” available now through Metropolis Records. The track serves as the first taste of the forthcoming Dirt Box EP, arriving on September 4, 2026, just ahead of PIG’s highly anticipated North American Hurt People Tour.
The release brings together an impressive lineup of industrial veterans. Longtime collaborator Marc Heal (Cubanate, C-Tec) co-wrote the track while contributing vocals and synthesizers, alongside Günter Schulz (formerly of KMFDM) on guitar. Watts’ longtime songwriting partner Jim Davies (formerly of The Prodigy and Pitchshifter) also returns, creating a powerhouse collaboration that blends decades of industrial experience into one relentless new anthem.
According to Watts, the goal was to refine and intensify the sound established on Hurt People Hurt.
“I wanted to distil and hone the sound of the current PIG album… inviting my old partners in swine Marc and Günter to join Jim and myself in the studio seemed the perfect blend of brutality and beauty… This new single was the first result of our work as a quartet.”
The result is a crushing blend of industrial aggression, glam swagger, and razor-sharp production that continues PIG’s evolution while remaining unmistakably true to its roots.
A Cinematic Video and a New Chapter
The single arrives alongside an atmospheric new music video directed by E Gabriel Edvy for Blackswitch Labs, expanding the song’s dystopian themes through striking visual storytelling.
The creative sessions that produced the single also generated three additional new songs, each receiving exclusive remixes from respected names across the industrial scene, including Chris Hall of Stabbing Westward, Combichrist, Rabbit Junk, and Cyanotic.
Dirt Box Expands the Hurt People Hurt Era
Rather than simply releasing another standalone single, PIG has collected eight tracks into the upcoming Dirt Box EP, featuring new material alongside exclusive remixes.
Dirt Box Track Listing
An American Ideal Of Beauty
Your Reptilian Overlord Presents
Infidel
Butterfly
Your Reptilian Overlord Presents (Cyanotic Remix)
An American Ideal Of Beauty (Chris Hall / Stabbing Westward Remix)
Butterfly (Combichrist Remix)
Infidel (Rabbit Junk Remix)
Riding the Momentum of Hurt People Hurt
The new EP follows the critically acclaimed release of Hurt People Hurt, an album that has received some of the strongest reviews of Raymond Watts’ career.
Critics praised the record for balancing crushing industrial power with memorable songwriting and theatrical flair. Publications across North America and Europe highlighted Watts’ ability to merge industrial rock, glam, electronic experimentation, and dark melody into something uniquely his own.
Much of that success stemmed from Watts’ continued partnership with Jim Davies, whose songwriting chemistry has become one of the defining elements of modern PIG releases.
Forty-Four Dates Across North America
The release of Dirt Box coincides with PIG’s Hurt People Tour, which spans 44 North American dates beginning in late August. The tour includes appearances at Cold Waves XIV, with performances scheduled in major cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin before concluding with four UK performances in December.
Fans can expect selections from Hurt People Hurt, the new Dirt Box EP, and classics spanning PIG’s influential industrial catalog.
A Lasting Legacy in Industrial Music
Few artists have shaped industrial music as consistently as Raymond Watts. Beyond releasing fifteen albums as PIG, Watts helped establish KMFDM during its formative years while contributing vocals and songwriting to many of the band’s most recognizable material.
His career has also included collaborations with Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, Psychic TV, Schwein, and Schaft, while his compositions have extended beyond music into film, television, advertising, and internationally recognized fashion productions, including projects associated with the late fashion icon Alexander McQueen.
More than three decades into his career, Watts continues proving that industrial music can remain fearless, inventive, and uncompromising.
With “An American Ideal Of Beauty,” PIG demonstrates that innovation and intensity remain at the heart of the project. Backed by legendary collaborators, an ambitious new EP, and an extensive tour schedule, Raymond Watts continues reinforcing his status as one of industrial music’s most enduring creative forces.
With “Hurt People Hurt” earning some of the strongest acclaim of Raymond Watts’ career, PIG are preparing to bring their volatile blend of industrial chaos, glam decadence, electronic aggression, and emotional destruction to North America this fall.
Existential industrial glam icon Raymond Watts is once again unleashing PIG onto North American stages with the newly announced “Hurt People Tour,” a sprawling 44-date run supporting the newly released album Hurt People Hurt via Metropolis Records. Following the recent announcement of appearances at Cold Waves XIV in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin, the tour now expands into a full-scale assault stretching from Lawrence, Kansas on August 27th through Detroit, Michigan on October 18th.
The newly announced itinerary currently features 40 confirmed dates, with additional performances still expected to be added. For longtime followers of Watts’ unpredictable and constantly evolving career, the tour represents another chapter in one of industrial music’s most enduring and creatively fearless legacies.
“Hurt People Hurt” has rapidly emerged as one of the most celebrated PIG releases in years, drawing praise for its collision of theatrical excess, emotional volatility, crushing electronics, and razor-sharp songwriting. Critics across the underground and alternative music press have highlighted the album’s ability to remain brutally danceable while simultaneously exploring darker emotional terrain.
Much of the material was co-written alongside longtime collaborator Jim Davies, known for his work with Pitchshifter and The Prodigy. Together, Watts and Davies continue refining a sound that refuses to sit comfortably inside any single genre boundary. Industrial, glam, electronic rock, darkwave, punk energy, and cinematic atmosphere all collide across the album like competing forces fighting for control.
That unstable energy can be heard throughout the album’s early singles. “Tosca’s Kiss” channels Watts’ longtime fascination with opera into a dramatic industrial spectacle loaded with theatrical tension and seductive darkness, while “Sex & Suicide” dives headfirst into obsession, pain, lust, grief, and emotional self-destruction with the kind of unapologetic intensity that has always separated PIG from safer contemporary acts.
The upcoming North American run arrives shortly after two sold out performances in Tokyo this June, further proving the global cult following Watts has built throughout decades of relentless experimentation and reinvention. UK dates are also expected later this December.
Few artists within industrial music possess a résumé as expansive as Raymond Watts. Beyond fourteen albums released under the PIG name, Watts has contributed to projects involving Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, Psychic TV, Schaft, and Schwein, while also serving as a founding member of KMFDM during some of the electronic rock pioneers’ most influential years. His work has extended far beyond traditional music spaces as well, including compositions for film, television, advertising, and major fashion productions connected to Alexander McQueen and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
What continues to make PIG compelling after all these years is Watts’ refusal to become nostalgic or creatively stagnant. “Hurt People Hurt” does not sound like an artist attempting to recreate the past. It sounds like someone still actively pushing industrial music toward uglier, smarter, sexier, and more emotionally dangerous territory.
This fall, North America gets dragged directly into that chaos.
Final tickets, tour dates, streaming links, and additional announcements surrounding the “Hurt People Tour” are expected to continue rolling out in the coming weeks as PIG prepares to bring one of industrial music’s most theatrical and volatile live experiences back across North America.
Industrial rock icon Raymond Watts pushes deeper into decadence, pain, glamour, and chaos as PIG unleash their latest full-length nightmare through Metropolis Records.
The industrial underground grows louder, stranger, and more dangerous with the arrival of Hurt People Hurt, the brand-new album from PIG. Led by legendary provocateur Raymond Watts alongside longtime collaborator Jim Davies — known for his work with The Prodigy and Pitchshifter — the new release continues the project’s legacy of blending razor-sharp industrial aggression with theatrical glam decadence, twisted humor, and emotionally bruised storytelling.
Built across ten tracks, Hurt People Hurt thrives in contradiction. Seductive yet hostile, glamorous yet grotesque, the album drags listeners through themes of pain, obsession, ecstasy, identity, and emotional collapse. Watts describes the release as “full fat PIG,” embracing the extremes that have defined the project for decades while continuing to evolve its sound into something even more cinematic and unpredictable.
Critics across the global industrial and alternative press have already praised the album’s genre-defying scope and theatrical intensity. Publications including Electronic Sound, Treblezine, XS Rock, VerdamMnis, Gaffa, and Tinnitist have highlighted the album’s ability to balance crushing industrial weight with dark cabaret, glam rock swagger, blues textures, church-like atmosphere, and biting gallows humor.
Ahead of the album’s release, PIG unveiled two striking singles that offered glimpses into the record’s fractured emotional world. Tosca’s Kiss channels Watts’ longtime fascination with opera and dramatic composition, while Sex & Suicide spirals through themes of obsession, grief, pleasure, and destruction with hypnotic intensity. Both videos further reinforce the surreal visual identity that continues to surround the PIG universe.
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Outside of the studio, PIG are preparing for a massive return to the stage. The project will perform two sold-out Tokyo shows in June before heading to the United States for appearances at Cold Waves XIV in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin this September. Additional North American tour dates are expected to be announced soon, while four UK performances in Manchester, Bradford, Glasgow, and London close out the year in December.
Raymond Watts remains one of the most influential and unpredictable figures to emerge from industrial music’s global evolution. Beyond fourteen albums under the PIG banner, his résumé includes collaborations with legendary acts including KMFDM, Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, Psychic TV, Schwein, and Schaft. His work has also extended into film, television, advertising, and high fashion, including projects tied to Alexander McQueen and exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
With Hurt People Hurt, PIG once again prove that industrial music can still be dangerous, theatrical, intelligent, and emotionally volatile all at once. Raymond Watts continues operating outside convention, crafting records that feel less like albums and more like immersive psychological experiences designed for the beautifully damaged outsiders of the modern world.
Industrial provocateur Raymond Watts returns with a razor-edged new single that dives headfirst into desire, destruction, and transformation.
NEW SINGLE OUT NOW — APRIL 10, 2026 VIA Metropolis Records
PIG is back—and as unapologetic as ever. The new single, “Sex & Suicide,” arrives as a visceral preview of the upcoming album “Hurt People Hurt,” set for release on May 22, 2026.
A HIGH-WIRE ACT OF DESIRE AND DESTRUCTION ⚡
Helmed by industrial glam architect Raymond Watts and longtime collaborator Jim Davies (ex-The Prodigy / Pitchshifter), “Sex & Suicide” is a track that doesn’t just flirt with extremes—it lives there.
Watts describes the song as:
“A song of pain, pleasure, obsession and possession, written for the departed, the broken-hearted and the newly started… a walk on the high-wire blade of want for something so bad you beg for release.”
That tension pulses through every layer of the track—equal parts seductive and suffocating, pushing listeners into the depths of craving and consequence.
VISUAL DECAY — THE LYRIC VIDEO 🎥
The single is accompanied by a striking lyric video directed by Grete Stitch Laus, amplifying the track’s themes of vulnerability and volatility through stark, stylized visuals.
THE ALBUM: “HURT PEOPLE HURT” 🩸
Set to drop May 22, “Hurt People Hurt” marks the next chapter in PIG’s long, twisted lineage. Across 10 tracks, the album promises a full-spectrum descent into the psyche—where ecstasy and anguish collide in a decadent, industrial soundscape.
Tracklist:
Tosca’s Kiss
Monkey See Monkey Do
Sex & Suicide
Hurt People Hurt
Scars
Quid Pro Quo
Ruins
DNA
Imposter
The Reaper’s Lament
Following the operatic intensity of “Tosca’s Kiss,” this second single sharpens the blade even further, carving out a space where misfits, reprobates, and the beautifully broken can lose—and rediscover—themselves.
LEGACY OF A SCENE ARCHITECT 🏭
Raymond Watts’ influence stretches across decades of industrial evolution. Beyond PIG’s fourteen-album catalog, his collaborations with Einstürzende Neubauten, Foetus, and Psychic TV helped define the genre’s edge.
He also played a foundational role in KMFDM, contributing to some of the band’s most iconic work during the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Outside of music, Watts has left his mark on global fashion and art, contributing to exhibitions like Punk: Chaos to Couture and collaborating with visionary designer Alexander McQueen on “Plato’s Atlantis”—later reimagined as “Savage Beauty.”
LIVE RITUALS INCOMING 🔥
PIG will bring this new era to the stage with upcoming performances, including:
Dark Force Fest — May 1, 2026 in Parsippany, New Jersey
Cold Waves XIV — September 2026 dates in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin
Tokyo, Japan — June 26 (sold out, with another date expected)
Industrial provocateur PIG is back with a venom-laced new single, “Tosca’s Kiss,” arriving March 6 via Metropolis Records, in collaboration with Armalyte Industries and Blue Noise (Hiroshi Yoshihiro). 💀
Written by Raymond Watts and Jim Davies, the track serves as the latest transmission from the forthcoming album Hurt People Hurt—a record poised to carve deep into the psyche of modern industrial music.
A Legacy of Sonic Violence ⚙️
For decades, Raymond Watts has weaponized sound under the PIG moniker—merging abrasive electronics, theatrical darkness, and razor-edged satire into something unmistakably his own. With “Tosca’s Kiss,” that legacy intensifies. 💀
Jim Davies (known for his work with The Prodigy and Pitchshifter) once again joins forces with Watts, forging metallic riffs and punishing textures that feel both nostalgic and futuristically hostile. The result is a track that bites hard—equal parts seductive and savage.
From Hurt People Hurt 🔥
If the album title is any indication, Hurt People Hurt will not be a passive listening experience. It promises confrontation. Catharsis. Reflection through distortion. 💀
“Tosca’s Kiss” hints at a body of work that explores cycles of damage, consequence, and emotional fallout—delivered with PIG’s signature industrial decadence.
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