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Hailed by some as "an aggressive new alternative-rock Frankenstein," Pigface grew to become a fierce juggernaut with a malleable line-up that could be as limited as the individual members personal phone books, or as packed with possibilities as the Yellow Pages. Egos where willingly surrendered for the greater good: the onstage fire-eater at a Pittsburgh show was just as important as the participation of then-fledgling Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. Fans going to the shows expecting a rote regurgitation of the stuff found on the debut 1991 Pigface document, Gub, were left screaming and shaking their sweaty bodies in wild abandon, or scratching their heads down to skull-surface trying to make sense of it all.
At close inspection, its obvious that Pigface has become much more than the convenient, yet dubious tag of "super group." A strategy for the creation of uncompromising music, Pigface has been a farm team (belly dancer Christine Petro added some color to U2s PopMart tour), as well as a launch pad for underground mavens to reinvent themselves. The collective fostered the aesthetic growth of former Silverfish screamer Lesley Rankine (heard here on "Chickasaw", and "Ten Ground and Down") into the sultry grooves of Ruby. Ditto for the career of former Gaye Byker On Acid Mary Hoxley, who later ascended from "grebo" obscurity to British dance-rock royalty in Apollo 440. Pigface also acted as a rampart where established musicians-such as Tools Danny Carey and Red Hot Chili Peppers Michael "Flea" Balzary could stretch out in ways their parent bands would not let them. The communal spirit of the music was also enough of a force to make the music industry adjust its cloudy spectacles to take notice (reportedly, the last word in Skinny Puppy's American Recordings contract is "Pigface"). But don't think for a nanosecond that all that activity and accomplishment was only felt onstage in a self-congratulatory back-slapping marathon: Just prior to his signing to the nothing Records label, Marilyn Manson launched an ad hoc ensemble names Mrs. Scabtree, that featured other like-minded Ft. Lauderdale, Florida freaks. When pressed for details, Manson described the group as "a Pigface-kind of thing." Time has proven that Pigface was an idea that has ignited both musicians and audiences alike.
- Jason Pettigrew Alternative Press
Discography:
Pigface "Broadcast from Radio China" split 7"
Recorded in Beijing in October 2006, "Broadcast From Radio China" is the first souvenir of Pigface's Chinese incarnation, as well as the first vinyl release from Pigface in well over a decade. Limited edition on red vinyl, with ten different covers all hand singed and numbered by Martin Atkins. The B-side is one of Invisible's new Beijing artists, Snapline, with their song "Close Your Cold Eyes".
Available Now! This 3CD remastered re-issue includes unreleased bonus tracks, plus the remix album "Below The Belt" and the out-of-print live album "Eat Shit You Fucking Redneck"! Volume 4 in the Pigface deluxe reissue series!
Includes "Headfuck", with remixes from Pitchshifter, Godhead, Chris Vrenna, Thrill Kill Kult, Bile, and more... "Clubhead", the 60 minute non-stop megamix by DJ Omegaman... "Dubhead", mixed by Chris Haskett (aka DJ Linux, formerly of The Rollins Band)... the glitched up fucked up interpretations of "Bithead", courtesy of Defragmentation... and "Crackhead", reworked by DJ? Acucrack and the Cracknation crew. All five discs plus a Pigface laminate! Limited to 500 copies!
The first studio album in five years! Features past and present members of: Kittie, Dope, gODHEAD, Moby, PiL, The Clash, Ministry, Tweaker, Revolting Cocks, NIN, Bile, Nocturne, VooDou, Thrill Kill Kult, Nitzer Ebb, Hate Dept, LoLo, Darling Kandie and many, many more.
Featuring performances from Trent Reznor (NIN), Ogre (Skinny Puppy), David Yow (Jesus Lizard), En Esch (KMFDM), Chris Connelly (RevCo, Ministry), William Rieflin (Ministry, REM), Martin Atkins (PiL, Killing Joke), and more!!! Engineered by Steve Albini. All three releases have been remastered at the Mattress Factory Studio and combined into a 2CD set. Package also includes three Pigface cards featuring photos from the era in which these albums were released.
2 CD set featuring Genesis P-Orridge, Ministry's Louis Svitek, and former Killing Joke drummer Paul Ferguson. Members of Chemlab and industrial poetess Meg Lee Chin also contribute.
Now, after four studio releases, three remix collections, four live albums & 10 tours comes the double-disc collection The Best of Pigface. The first disc sports a bevy of 'face-offs remastered for your stringent high-fidelity needs, including "A******" (starring Skinny Puppy's charismatic frontman Ogre), "Suck" (the taut minimalist groove worked by Trent Reznor), the brooding "Empathy" (intoned by Swans founder Michael Gira) and the Chicago rock summit "Point Blank," featuring electronic-rock icons Chris Connelly and Paul Barker playing alongside Big Black/Shellac founder Steve Albini. The second disc features previously unreleased tracks starring the likes of Pixies founders Frank Black and Joey Santiago, Dean Ween, and other aural ephemera.
Pigface "Feels Like Heaven...Sounds Like Shit!" CD
Remixes from "Notes from thee Underground," including SickAspFuck - the Evil Mothers' "Sick Culture" mixed with Pigface's "Fuck It Up" - became a #1 club hit!
This new DVD contains live footage from Pigface on the United I Tour in spring 2003. This incarnation of Pigface includes Chris Connelly, Curse Mackey, Krztoff, Groovie Mann, Lacey Conner, and Martin Atkins.
This 2 DVD set contains all of the footage from the LONG out of print "Glitch" and "Son of a Glitch" videos, plus photo galleries and more. Features Trent Reznor, Chris Connelly, Ogre, Martin Atkins, and more!!!
