Raymond Watts is an English musician, the founding and sole member of the industrial music project PIG, sometimes written as <PIG>.
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.
Emery is an American post-hardcore band formed in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 2001 by Toby Morrell, Devin Shelton, Matt Carter, Josh Head, Joel Green and Seth Studley, and relocated to Seattle in order to reach a more music centered scene.
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.
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.
As Cities Burn is an American post-hardcore band from Mandeville, Louisiana, that formed in 2002 and has released four studio albums. Their debut, Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest, was released in 2005. Two years later, they released Come Now Sleep. Then, in 2009, As Cities Burn released their third album, Hell or High Water. The band had performed from 2011 through 2016, but drummer Aaron Lunsford announced, on August 16, 2016, that the group disbanded. In December 2017, As Cities Burn reunited and went on tour to open up for Emery, and announced that they were staying together and writing new music.
Psyclon Nine is an American band formed in 2000 in San Francisco, CA, known for their unique blend of electronic, industrial metal and black metal. Originally, Psyclon Nine's music was Terror EBM with melancholic darkwave/Gothic atmospheres and black metal style vocals. However, the band has since evolved a more industrial/black metal sound.
Moving Units is an American dance-punk band from Los Angeles, California.
The Almost is an American band from Clearwater, Florida, best known for being fronted by Underoath drummer and vocalist Aaron Gillespie. Formed in 2005, the band's current lineup consists of Gillespie on vocals and guitar, bassist Jon Thompson, and drummer Joe Musten. The band has released three albums and two EPs on Tooth & Nail Records, with 2009's Monster Monster peaking at No. 67 on the Billboard 200, 2013's Fear Inside Our Bones at No. 142 on the Billboard 200 and October 2019's Fear Caller through Fearless Records.
Mark Gemini Thwaite also known as MGT, is an English musician, and has been the guitarist for a number of rock bands and artists over the last two decades, including The Mission, Tricky, Peter Murphy, New Disease, Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, Mob Research, and Canadian band National Velvet plus various live and recorded appearances with Gary Numan, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Roger Daltrey of the Who, P.J. Harvey, Alanis Morissette, Primitive Race, Ricky Warwick of Thin Lizzy, Ginger of The Wildhearts, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, Franz Treichler of The Young Gods, Miles Hunt & The Wonder Stuff, Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory, Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and Porl Thompson of The Cure and Ville Valo of Finnish band HIM.
The Letter Black, formerly known as Breaking the Silence, is an American Christian rock band that was formed in 2006 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The band consists of lead vocalist Sarah Anthony; her husband, lead guitarist and vocalist Mark Anthony; bassist Matt Beal and drummer William Fowler.
Close Your Eyes is an American rock band from Abilene, Texas, United States.
Mt Eden is a dubstep and EDM artist from New Zealand. Popular tracks include "Sierra Leone" - a remix of Freshlyground's "I'd Like" - and remixes of Delerium's "Silence" as well as Lisa Miskovsky's "Still Alive".
Primitive Race is an international industrial supergroup created by Chris Kniker and featuring Raymond Watts, Dave Ogilvie, Mark Gemini Thwaite, Erie Loch, Chuck Mosley, Graham Crabb and Kourtney Klein.
And Then There's Nothing is a remix album from the band Tweaker, released on November 26, 2013.
Swimming With Dolphins is an American electronica band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Austin Tofte and Owl City frontman Adam Young formed the band in 2008, later featuring vocals from Breanne Düren. The name of the band was derived, according to Tofte, from "some old Jacques Cousteau documentaries from the 80s". Though Young was never the front man or lead singer, he performed synths and programming for the act. He also served as the producer of the group.
"Nasty" is the twenty-second single released by the British electronic band the Prodigy. The song was released on 12 January 2015, for their upcoming album The Day Is My Enemy. The remix EP was subsequently released on 2 February.
Compound Eye Sessions is an collaboration between Marc Heal as MC Lord of the Flies and Raymond Watts. Two songs from the PIG side of the EP titled "Drugzilla" and "Shake" were previously released as rough mixes on Marc Heal's personal SoundCloud page. A limited run of 500 physical copies was released by Armalyte Records on April 13, 2015. The EP is also available digitally through Bandcamp and iTunes. This release also marks the first official PIG release in ten years since 2005's Pigmata, that of which Marc Heal also contributed to.
Primitive Race is the first full-length album by Industrial supergroup Primitive Race. Created by Chris Kniker, the project has regular appearances by Graham Crabb, Erie Loch, and Mark Gemini Thwaite. A few more additional contributors include Tommy Victor, Dave “Rave” Ogilvie, Kourtney Klein, Mark “3KSK” Brooks, Josh Bradford, Andi Sex Gang.
