PIG release new album ‘Hurt People Hurt’ and announce 2026 tour dates
PIG | Jim Davies (L) & Raymond Watts (R) 2026 photo
PIG, the industrial rock project led by Raymond Watts, has released the new album “Hurt People Hurt” today, May 22, 2026 via Metropolis Records. The album is available as LP, CD and digital release and holds 10 tracks.
The album was written by Watts and Jim Davies, known for his work with The Prodigy and Pitchshifter. Watts says: “”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.”
Two singles were released before the album. “Tosca’s Kiss” was the first preview, with a video directed and edited by E Gabriel Edvy for Blackswitch Labs. The second single, “Sex & Suicide“, was released on April 10, 2026. The lyric video was directed by Grete Stitch Laus.
PIG 2026 tour dates
PIG will play two sold-out Tokyo shows on June 25 and 26, 2026. The band is also scheduled for Cold Waves XIV on September 25, 2026, with Stabbing Westward, Acumen Nation, 16 Volt, Purest Form and Kaput.
UK dates have also been announced for December 2026:
- 10 December – Manchester, Rebellion
- 11 December – Bradford, Nightrain
- 12 December – Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
- 13 December – London, The Lexington
About PIG
PIG is the long-running industrial rock project of English musician Raymond Watts, which he formed in 1988 after earlier work in London, Hamburg, and West Berlin. Before launching the project, Watts had already worked on early KMFDM material with En Esch and Sascha Konietzko, and had also been active as a live and studio sound engineer for Einstürzende Neubauten and Psychic TV. He later toured with Foetus on keyboards and guitar.
The first release was “A Poke in the Eye… with a Sharp Stick”, followed by “Praise the Lard” (1991), “A Stroll in the Pork” (1992), “The Swining” (1993), “Sinsation” (1995), “Wrecked” (1996), “Genuine American Monster” (1999), and “Pigmartyr” (2004), later reissued as “Pigmata”. Small detail, several 1990s releases first appeared in Japan, including “The Swining” and “Wrecked”.
Watts is also a founding member and recurring collaborator of KMFDM. He rejoined that orbit in 1994 for the PIG vs KMFDM release “Sin Sex & Salvation”, later worked with the Japanese projects Schaft and Schwein, and also wrote music and sound design for fashion and exhibition work, including Alexander McQueen’s “Plato’s Atlantis” and the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition “Punk: Chaos to Couture”.
After the Watts release “Pigmartyr”, the project resumed under the PIG name with “The Gospel” on September 9, 2016, followed by “Risen” on June 8, 2018 and the covers album “Candy” on June 21, 2019. The project then returned with “Pain Is God” on November 20, 2020, followed by “The Merciless Light” on September 23, 2022. That run continued with “Red Room” on May 17, 2024, the “Feast of Agony” EP on September 27, 2024, the remastered “Wrecked” on March 7, 2025, and the remix album “The Merciful Night” on November 14, 2025.
Jim Davies was a recurring collaborator the past few years. And now there is the brand new album “Hurt People Hurt”.
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