KMFDM is a multinational industrial band from Hamburg led by Sascha Konietzko, who founded the band in 1984 as a performance art project.
Nihil is the seventh studio album by German industrial band KMFDM, released on April 4, 1995, by Wax Trax! Records. The album marked the return of former band member Raymond Watts and the first appearance of session drummer Bill Rieflin, and was mostly written by frontman Sascha Konietzko.
Raymond Watts is an English musician, the founding and sole member of the industrial music project PIG, sometimes written as <PIG>.
Sinsation is an album by PIG released in Japan in 1995. It was later released in the United States on Nothing Records on 17 September 1996. A music video for the song 'Painiac ' was filmed and scarcely aired on MTV in 1996; making its final broadcast in 2000 on MTV2's A-Z video marathon.
Günter Schulz is a German musician, songwriter and former member of the industrial band KMFDM.
Pigmartyr (2004) is an album by Raymond Watts, a.k.a. PIG. This was the first album he signed as "Watts" instead of "PIG". The First copies were signed and numbered by Raymond Watts. The album was remastered and rereleased through Metropolis under the title Pigmata in 2005, as a PIG album, with three additional tracks mixed by Isaac Glendening of Cesium 137.
Genuine American Monster is an album by Raymond Watts, under the name PIG. It was initially released in Japan in 1999, and did not see a release in the United States until 2002 October 22 on Metropolis Records. The US release adds one song originally from the Prime Evil EP, bringing the album's total running time to 71 minutes and 14 seconds.
Sin Sex & Salvation (1994), is an EP released by KMFDM and Raymond Watts. The artist for it is usually listed as KMFDM vs. PIG. It was recently re-released in 2024. Prior to then, none of the songs had ever been re-released in any other format since its initial release, except for "Fuck Me" which appears on a bonus disc entitled 'The Year of the Pig Collection' accompanying the Canadian release of the "Juke Joint Jezebel" Giorgio Moroder mixes maxi-single, and "Secret Skin" which appears on the 'Year of the Pig' 12" four song vinyl pressing containing "Juke Joint Jezebel" as the caveat. Both were released in 1995 and are OOP as well.
"Juke Joint Jezebel" is a song by industrial rock group KMFDM from their 1995 album Nihil. It is KMFDM's most widely known song to date, with around three million copies of the song sold across various releases.
A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick is a 1988 album by Raymond Watts under the moniker PIG. It was reissued in Japan in 1998 by Blue Noise. An extremely low-budget promotional video for "Shit for Brains" exists, and was released on the Best of Berlin Independence Days '88 compilation VHS.
The Swining is a 1993 album released by Raymond Watts. It was released exclusively in Japan, being re-released in the United States by Cleopatra Records in 1999 as part of The Swining/Red Raw & Sore. Music videos for the songs "The Fountain of Miracles" and "The Seven Veils" were filmed but remain unreleased outside Japan. They exist in bootleg form around the internet and YouTube.
Red Raw & Sore is a 1994 EP released by Raymond Watts. Released exclusively in Japan, Red Raw & Sore contains two original tracks, "Red Raw & Sore" and "One Meatball", as well as three remixes of songs from The Swining, "Rope", "Blades" and "The Fountain of Miracles". Red Raw & Sore was re-released in the United States in 1999 by Cleopatra Records as part of The Swining/Red Raw & Sore.
Painiac is a 1995 EP released by Raymond Watts. Painiac has only ever been released in Japan. The version of the song that appears on this single is that of an earlier recording than the version that appears on Sinsation.
Wrecked is a 1996 album released by Raymond Watts. Wrecked was originally released in Japan in 1996, and was later released in the United States on 16 September 1997 by Wax Trax/TVT Records. Each release is different, with different track run times, as well as different tracks present. A promotional video for 'Everything' exists, but remains unreleased outside Japan.
Prime Evil is a 1997 EP released by Raymond Watts It was released exclusively in Japan as a follow-up to 1996's Wrecked. It features four remixes of tracks from Wrecked as well as a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and the original tracks "Prime Evil" and "The Keeper of the Margarita".
No One Gets Out of Her Alive is a 1998 EP by PIG.
Schaft is a Japanese musical side project whose main members are Maki Fujii and Hisashi Imai. Schaft can be thought of as being a supergroup in that for the release of their debut album Switchblade Maki and Imai formed the core of the group and a rotating roster of collaborators, who are well known within their genres, were brought in to work on various songs. Raymond Watts of PIG was Schaft's most recurring collaborator, having contributed to half the songs on their debut album and toured with the band. After a long hiatus, Schaft resumed activities in 2015.
Sick is the second studio album by Sow released in 1998. This album spawned no singles. At this time Sow comprises Anna Wildsmith with "Boys", where the Boys are Raymond Watts, Euphonic, Sascha Konietzko, Hoppy Kamiyama & Optical 8, Martin King, and Günter Schulz.
Beat by Beat by Beat is a video released by German industrial rock band KMFDM originally released on VHS by the name Beat by Beat in 1997 and on DVD with its final, longer name in 2001. It features live performances and backstage tour footage from the band's 1995 Beat by Beat tour as well as all seven of the band's videos produced at the time.
