# PIG Presents Remastered Version Of Seminal ‘Sinsation’ Album

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/pig-presents-remastered-version-of-seminal-sinsation-album/
- Published: 2024-08-23T16:00:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **PIG (Raymond Watts) presents remastered version of seminal ‘Sinsation’ album, originally released via Trent Reznor’s Nothing Records**

_“A harrowing masterpiece of industrial music, ‘Sinsation’ was born from a crucible
of desperation and nihilism, this album captures the raw intensity and emotional
turmoil of Raymond Watts at his most vulnerable, reflecting a solitary journey into
the depths of his own psyche, fueled by a relentless pursuit of sonic extremity”_
~ **The Spill Magazine**

[⌊PIG⌉⌊PIG⌉[

On the trail of his latest [**‘Red Room’**](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/red-room)
album, industrial legend **Raymond Watts **a.k.a.** **[**PIG**](http://pigindustries.com/)
is re-releasing his seminal [**‘Sinsation’**](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/sinsation-remastered)
album via [**Metropolis Records**](https://www.metropolis-records.com/) (digital,
CD) and [**Armalyte Industries**](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/sinsation-deluxe)(
vinyl). Out of print for several decades now. this album now makes a fine re-entry
to the world, completely re-remastered at** Abbey Road**. 

‘Sinsation’ was originally released in the mid-1990s – both in Japan and on **Nothing
Records**, which was established by **Nine Inch Nails** kingpin **Trent Reznor**.
An influential and commercially successful label with a cult underground following,
PIG joined such artists as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Squarepusher, Autechre,
Meat Beat Manifesto, Pop Will Eat Itself, Einstürzende Neubauten and Plaid.

Here, Watts adeptly blends the profound and the profane, featuring such PIG classics
as** **[**‘Painiac’**](https://youtu.be/3XmSj11f8wc)**, ‘Hamstrung On The Highway’**
and** ‘Hot Hole’**. As it was since the beginning, Watts & Co teases, taunts, tempts
and tantalizes with PIG’s singular blend of hook laden, genre-bending, electronic-
tinged alternative rock, loaded with malevolent reverence, glitz, glamour, sleaze,
sin and swing. 

“Every record I make is PIG through a different noose … and when I made Sinsation
the noose hung high. Sinsation was born in 1995 at Ranch Apocalypse in London. The
culmination of creation and cremation … an apotheosis of desperation, nihilism and
desire … the only place I could go was to the poison well and drink deeply,” says**
Raymond Watts**.

“I was locked inside the studio and myself. The barricades were up in my fortress
of solitude with only Steve White and a large box of drugs for company. Sinsation
was the sound of the last card turning and burning. The only way out was through.
I had to give birth to the noise inside my head and record it. A fiendishly simple
and yet simply fiendish task. A place in which I was so uncomfortable that success
would be to fail, as to fail had been my only success.”

PIG - Painiac (remaster 2024)

[⌊PIG - Painiac (remaster 2024)⌉⌊PIG - Painiac (remaster 2024)⌉
Watch this video
on YouTube

Recorded and mixed by PIG and **Helen Woodward (Pale Saints, Dodgy, Kitchens of 
Distinction, Alien Sex Fiend, Ultra Vivid Scene)**, this album features contributions
by several notable artists, including **Karl Hyde (**[**Underworld**](https://www.underworldlive.com/)**)**,**
Jimmy Cauty** ([**The KLF**](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100058233363200))
and **Steve White (KMFDM**), who has also collaborated and recorded with** Ocean
Colour Scene** and** Mekon**, as well as **Carol Anne Reynolds** **(Sow) **and Japanese
artists **Imai Hisashi** **(Buck Tick)** and **Hoppy Kamiyama**. 

[[

“Sinsation wasn’t anything about the ascent of man. It was the descent of ham. As
surely as everything passes, so did the spotlight on sin, as the long thin shadow
that scratched the words from deep within and conducted the chaos would soon cast
its darkness on a new vision. PIG would crawl to a different master in me and hang
from a new noose,” says **Watts**.

“I was surprised and saddened to re-visit Sinsation, surprised by the energy and
invention and saddened to hear the pain … But I was strangely glad to have visited
hell, and blessed that I didn’t stay.”

Raymond Watts has had quite a colourful and stellar career since cutting his teeth
in the mid-1980s industrial rock scene as a member of **KMFDM**. Apart from releasing
14 albums as PIG, he has toured with **Nine Inch Nails**, KMFDM and **Einstürzende
Neubauten**, written music for fashion and film (**Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston,
The Row**), and even did sound design for the exhibition** ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’**
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Watts also collaborated with the late fashion icon **Alexander McQueen**, who commissioned
him (with **John Gosling**) to embellish the serene instrumental track **‘Inside’**(
from PIG’s 1999 album** ‘Genuine American Monster’**) for the soundtrack to **‘Plato’s
Atlantis**’. The show was reprised after McQueen’s untimely death in as the finale
of **‘Savage Beauty**‘, a posthumous retrospective that broke all records at both
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

As of August 23, **[‘](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/sinsation-remastered)**
[**Sinsation (Remastered)’**](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/sinsation-remastered)
is available from fine online platforms, including **[Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/artist/pig/19841959),**
[**Spotify**](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5riS4sDqcjVAwvC37jxTP0) and [**Bandcamp**](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/),
where ‘Red Room’ can also be found (on CD and digitally). The[** limited edition vinyl **](https://pigindustries.bandcamp.com/album/sinsation-deluxe)
offers 2 slabs of black, heavyweight vinyl – barely enough to contain the sin, sleaze
and salvation that his album oozes. The gatefold sleeve comes with two inserts –
a 12″ by 12″ lyric sheet and a huge foldout poster (approx 7″ x 42″) showcasing 
designer Steve Lovell-Davis’ inspired artwork. On the fourth side of the vinyl is
Armalyte’s very first etched piece – a true beauty of a beast.

On September 28, PIG launches his[** ‘Heroin For The Damned’ tour**](http://xn--heroin%20for%20the%20damned%20tour-9c5u5b/)****
with** **[**Curse Mackey**](http://www.cursemackey.com/)** **and [**Unitcode : Machine**](https://www.facebook.com/unitc0de).
The 40-date itinerary follows PIG’s headlining set at **Cold Waves XII **in Chicago.

**ALBUM CREDITS**
All songs written by Raymond Watts,except ‘Shell’ written by Raymond
Watts & Karl HydeRecorded & mixed by Helen Woodword & Raymond Watts at Ranch Apocalypse(
London),except ‘Analgesia’, mixed by Raymond Watts & Jimmy CautyProduced & arranged
by Raymond WattsMastering by Tom Hall at Abbey RoadCover photo by Steve Lovell-DavisReleased
by Metropolis RecordsPublicity by Shauna McLarnon at [**Shameless Promotion PR**](http://www.shamelesspromotionpr.com/)

PIG is…

 * Raymond Watts – vocals, synth, guitar, drums, programming
 * Steve White – guitar
 * Imai Hisashi – guitar on ‘Analgesia’
 * Karl Hyde – guitar on ‘Shell’
 * Jimmy Cauty – keyboards
 * Hoppy Kamiyama – loops on ‘Painiac’
 * Carol Anne Reynolds – backing vocals on ‘The Sick’
 * Additional words by Anna Wildsmith

[[

**TRACK LIST  **

 1.  Serial Killer Thriller
 2.  Hamstrung On The Highway
 3.  Golgotha
 4.  The Sick
 5.  Paniac
 6.  Shell
 7.  Analgesia
 8.  Volcano
 9.  Hot Hole
 10. Transceration

[**TOUR DATES ‘Heroin For The Damned’ Tour**](https://linktr.ee/pigtour2024)** **

 * 9/28/24: Chicago, IL, @ Metro
 * 9/ 29/24: Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze *
 * 9/30/24: Des Moines, IA @ Lefty’s Live Music *
 * 10/2/24: Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Arcade *
 * 10/3/24: Davenport, IA @ Raccoon Motel *
 * 10/4/24: Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck *
 * 10/5/24: Denver, CO Kulture Music Hall *
 * 10/6/24: SLC, UT @ Quarters *
 * 10/7/24: Boise, ID @ Visual Arts Collective *
 * 10/9/24: Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s *
 * 10/10/24: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon  ^^
 * 10/13/24: Portland, OR @ Dante’s ^^
 * 10/15/24: Sacramento, CA @ Starlit Room ^^
 * 10/16/24: SF, CA @ DNA ^^
 * 10/17/24: San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop ^^
 * 10/18/24: Las Vegas, NV @ Sinwave ^^
 * 10/19/24: Los Angeles, CA @ Catch One ^^
 * 10/20/24: Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock ^^
 * 10/21/24: Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad ^^
 * 10/23/24: OK City @ Beer City ^^
 * 10/24/24: Dallas, TX @ Three Links ^^
 * 10/25/24 – Houston TX @ Secret Group *
 * 10/26/24: Austin, TX @ Elysium *
 * 10/27/24: New Orleans, LA @ Santos *
 * 10/29/24: Pensacola, FL @ Handlebar *
 * 10/30/24: Orlando, Fl @ Handlebar *
 * 11/1/24: West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable Street *
 * 11/2/24: Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly *
 * 11/3/24: Greenville, SC @ Radio Room *
 * 11/5/24: Atlanta, GA @ Star Bar *
 * 11/6/24: Richmond, VA @ Fallout *
 * 11/7/24: Baltimore, MD @ Metro Baltimore *
 * 11/8/24: New York, NY @ STIMULATE *
 * 11/9/24 – Wilmington DE @ Bar 13 *
 * 11/10/24: Millersville, PA @ Phantom Power *
 * 11/12/24: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East *
 * 11/13/24: Quebec City, QC @ L’anti Bar *
 * 11/14/24: Montreal, QC @ Cabaret Fous *
 * 11/15/24: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace *
 * 11/16/24: Detroit, MI @ Smalls *
 * 11/17/24: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern *

**\*  dates with Unitcode : Machine
^^ dates with Curse Mackey and Unitcode : Machine

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