{"id":11367,"date":"2025-03-08T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11367"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T18:11:58","slug":"pig-wrecked-2024-remaster-reissue-of-1996-album-by-uk-industrial-glam-kingpin-out-7th-march-2025-metropolis-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11367","title":{"rendered":"PIG : ‘Wrecked (2024 remaster)’ – reissue of 1996 album by UK industrial glam kingpin out 7th March 2025 (Metropolis Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Industrial glam kingpin Raymond Watts aka PIG has<\/strong> reissue a remastered and expanded version of his 1996 album \u2018Wrecked\u2019 via Metropolis Records today (7th March). His fifth full-length record, the remastering has been made by Tom Hall at Abbey Road, while its reappearance appears during UK live dates to promote the 2024 studio album \u2018Red Room\u2019. The PIG live band currently includes En Esch (ex-KMFDM, Pigface) and Jim Davies, formerly of Pitchshifter but best known for his acidic and acerbic guitar lines on several chart hits by The Prodigy. Davies co-wrote many of the songs on \u2018Red Room\u2019.

Whereas the recently reissued ‘Sinsation’ (1995) had originally been released on Nothing Records (the label established by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails), its follow-up saw a switch to Wax Trax!, the leading \u201890s exponents of industrial rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRevisiting \u2018Wrecked\u2019 for remastering was a sobering experience that left me shaken,\u201d<\/em> states Watts. \u201cI recalled a period when I was stirred to a creative frenzy of crisis and desperation while searching for beauty. Although I can still hear glimpses of it, the bonfire of my hope was more an expression that was savage and twisted.\u201d<\/em>

 Following the desperate burning that had resulted in \u2018Sinsation\u2019, Watts considers it more \u201ca yearning, grinding plea for liberation that manifested in \u2018Wrecked\u2019, a tomb I had built for myself and my troubles that only the very bravest would dare enter.\u201d<\/em>

 The original press release for \u2018Wrecked\u2019 had described the album as \u201ca nihilistic slash and burn, a scrapbook of manifestos and suicide notes written in dried blood.\u201d <\/em>In the cold light of day almost three decades later that description still holds true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Wrecked\u2019 features contributions from former KMFDM members G\u00fcnter Schulz and Steve White, as well as Julian Beeston (ex-Nitzer Ebb, Cubanate).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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