https://www.fasemag.com/articles daily 0.75 2026-06-08 https://www.fasemag.com/articles/something-to-look-forward-to-inside-raymond-wattss-pig monthly 0.5 2026-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/8f0130c7-37ff-4751-b3d9-a6a83d2d7879/pig+fase.png Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/db1150d5-12c3-45b0-8bb3-99666834b86c/PIG+-+Hurt+People+Hurt+album+cover.jpeg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG Being at the forefront of electronic music since the early eighties, Raymond Watts has no doubt made a name for himself as one of the generation's most prolific artists, whether as the frontman of PIG, a founding member and recurring collaborator of KMFDM, or through collaborations with Japanese alternative visionaries like Atsushi Sakurai and Hisashi Imai of Buck-Tick, and Maki Fujii of Soft Ballet, among others. His latest record under PIG, Hurt People Hurt, was released on May 22nd, 2026, via Metropolis Records and is a testament to that legacy. Co-written with Jim Davies, the album is as abrasive as it is melodic, threading the operatic grandeur of “Tosca’s Kiss” through the industrial grit of “Sex and Suicide” and “Quid Pro Quo” with the ease of someone who has spent four decades making that tension feel not just intentional but inevitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/8545c909-618e-4417-a928-e86beab8a08c/PIG+IMG_5830.jpeg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/afe60264-9e1c-44a3-9ebc-37acec5a4cbc/PIG+IMG_5302.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/ed24915b-33bd-463d-9f5b-bc26942122ff/0d1a50bfc9847df3e1f909ddd97c875a.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG Raymond:  I felt pretty empowered by the fact that I could do my own thing, and that goes back to Japan in 1981. After my little new wave band, some Svengali music producer got hold of us, decapitated our singer, and replaced her with a woman he thought would front it better. We made an album in two fancy studios thinking it was great – it wasn't – and then went to Japan for several months. The project didn't succeed, and I found it awful being a small cog in a machine run by a big publishing company trying to manufacture something. But I loved being in Japan. Having come from London, which was pretty broken and fucked up at the time, to find myself in 1981 in the middle of Tokyo was like landing on the set of Blade Runner.  It was amazing, and a real eye-opener for me. I came back with enough money to buy a little eight-track studio, and that's where I first felt empowered — the possibility of doing my own thing. I could sit there, learn to cut tape loops, and start making funny, obscure records with Genesis P-Orridge and the Neubauten crowd. I joined a Neue Deutsche Welle band from Hamburg called Abwärts, put the studio in a van, and moved it over there. I was also in a splinter band called Zos Kia, which was started by Peter Christopherson from Throbbing Gristle and early Psychic TV, along with John Gosling and me. That band still goes on, actually. We're headlining an industrial festival in the south of Germany in July, which is quite extraordinary when you think we were literally just fucking around in a studio 40-something years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/00715583-eac7-4fc9-a737-c392a25bd01d/PIG_20241109_NYC-1-2.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG PIG at Bowery Electric 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/54bdde49-39cf-469e-be6b-f38f6ef12f18/77d069c5fc99fd5b48208c649199f41e.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/48d80044-b4c9-483d-856d-4409ea3329ed/trent+anton+corbijn.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Trent Reznor, 1994. Photo by Anton Corbjin. Raymond:  I suppose you get influenced by everything, don't you? I get influenced from picking up a tabloid newspaper or the Weekly World News, or riding in the back of a taxi and hearing what some guy says, or looking at a billboard. Everything influences you, of course. But to me, with that band and that lineup he had in ‘94, and some are still with him, like Robin Finck. Seeing them play every night was really quite an education in [their] level of commitment and dedication. Obviously, everybody was much younger then. The intensity was quite amazing to watch every night. They were absolutely at the peak of their powers. I'm not saying they're not great now, and it's fabulous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/9e2f187b-2659-4c27-a274-4ac76011fd44/en30_sep_84.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG Einstürzende Neubauten, 1984. Photo by Arnfinn Hovlan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/281db84b-b418-4543-938a-47d1582bb406/WATTS+SCHAFT.png Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Raymond:  I mean, they were big fucking halls for a start, and I can tell you that there were a lot of people there. As I said, I've been inspired by and resonated with these artists who were quite confrontational, and that was part of the language that we used. I remember there was a big crew involved in the Schaft thing; lots of lighting people and stage managers. I was a little bit more out of control, shall we say…than they were used to, and that ruffled a few feathers. There was one stage manager who thought it was a little bit – not with me – but they were a little bit confused and shocked by the level of chaos, confrontation, and stuff being thrown around [that] caused a few wrinkles in procedure. Not from the guys in the band, they were all cool. Of course, I have to mention that the greatest thing was also being introduced to Motokatsu, who was the drummer in the live band and also played on Switchblade. He's playing with me in Tokyo next month. He was the drummer from this fabulous band called the Mad Capsule Markets, and he's such a lovely bloke. It was a great thing to be involved in, but it was a complete mishmash of cultures 'cause everything in Japan is a little bit more – particularly at the time – more structured and organized, and I came in [more chaotically]. They were like, "What the fuck?!" Of course, it's the area where two things rub up against each other, [and] the most interesting shit happens, like tectonic plates where they rub up against each other; that's where all the volcanoes and all the earthquakes happen. It was a fantastic collision of two cultures, and quite exciting. Watts performing with Schaft, 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/e35045f2-0590-4804-b156-d510e1012a5f/R-292355-1235670977.jpg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG Raymond:  I wouldn’t know if it's been properly understood, [as] people make of it what they will. I think, over time, it has probably [aged] like fine wine and [has] ripened quite well. Maybe it gets a little bit more attention now, but not much. All I can say is it was a great thing to be involved in. At that time, we were able to attract – like those artists you’ve named – really interesting people to be involved in it. We actually made a great video for the song "Arbor Vitate". I was able to get Philip Richardson, my video guy, and we actually had some money to really push the boundary. Not a huge amount by the standards of the day, but for us, as independent underground artists, it was quite great to have a little bit of ammunition to work with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/4b4e81ce-ce16-431d-b68e-7badbc497666/PIG+IMG_5824.jpeg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6976f403c90dbf68a4a1d40b/68c3fd83-8e72-45b0-b8f3-9708ad9cf1b5/PIG+IMG_5298.jpeg Articles - Something to Look Forward To: Inside Raymond Watts's PIG Raymond:  That is inspired by just one scene in the story of [Tosca]. Weirdly, I'm going to see Tosca again tomorrow night at another opera house, one in the country called Glyndebourne. It's a new production, which I'm really looking forward to. Got rave reviews last week when it just premiered. 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