Jim Davies (L) & Raymond Watts (R) 2026
Industrial glam maverick 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 just after midnight UK time today (22nd May 2026).
“‘Hurt People Hurt’ is the shepherd to pain, shoehorned between the masochist and the drama queen within. It’s full fat PIG where the weak will walk and the sick will see,” states Watts.
The album follows the dirt directly to the dustcart where misfits and reprobates can 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.
Two singles have been issued ahead of the album. The first, ‘Tosca’s Kiss’ VIDEO, is inspired by Watts’ well-known love of opera, while ‘Sex & Suicide’ LYRIC VIDEO is described as a song of pain, pleasure, obsession and possession for the departed, the broken-hearted and the newly started.
PIG will play two sold out shows in Tokyo on 25th and 26th June and are also performing in Chicago, Los Angeles and Austin as part of the Cold Waves XIV festival in September. A full North American tour will be announced shortly. Four UK dates have also been announced in December:
10th December MANCHESTER Rebellion
11th December BRADFORD Nightrain
12th December GLASGOW Ivory Blacks
13th December LONDON The Lexington
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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 | 2026 publicity photos by E Gabriel Edvy: Blackswitch Labs
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