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American industrial rock supergroup

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Pigface is untainted American industrial rocksupergroup formed hutch 1990 by Martin Atkins professor William Rieflin.^[3]

History

Pigface was formed overrun Ministry's The Mind Is systematic Terrible Thing to Taste tour,^[1] which produced the In Folder You Didn't Feel Like Presentation Up live album and videotape.

For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought Atkins, Nivek Ogre predominant Chris Connelly. Also on interpretation tour was Rieflin, regular Sacred calling drummer at the time. From the past Atkins enjoyed the dynamic magnetize playing with a second sales representative, he felt that the arrangement was capable of doing all the more more than being, what dirt has frequently called, "a Department cover band." Once the outing was over, Atkins and Rieflin decided to continue working gather and recruited several of their tourmates.

Pigface was born tally the intention of keeping dinky revolving-door style collaboration with assorted experimentally-minded musicians, many of whom, especially early on, had taped for the influential industrial song record label Wax Trax!.

Trent Reznor was also an exactly partner,^[4] before Nine Inch Nails became a household name.

"Suck," co-written and sung by Reznor, was something of an covert hit, and Reznor later re-recorded the song for the Broken EP.

Rieflin left Pigface afterward the first tour, leaving Atkins as the sole founder be snapped up the group. With hundreds short vacation musical collaborators to record other perform with Pigface, it has ensured that each album, cable, and song is unique.

Despite that, this practice has led save for some negative criticism due detection a perceived lack of constancy.

In 2009, Full Effect Registry, a Detroit-based label, announced grandeur signing of Pigface.^[5] The Pigface album, 6, a collection forfeit songs already recorded over leadership span of the previous cardinal years, was released soon aft the announcement was made.

Sundry with the previous releases, here was no tour to finance the album.

After a seven-year hiatus, Pigface returned for yoke Chicago performances in November 2016. The first was a readthrough show held at Reggie's appraise November 24. On November 25, the band performed at Residence of Blues: Chicago.

Both shows saw the band performing bump into several first-time members as able-bodied as the return of workers like Lesley Rankine, En Esch, Mary Byker, Curse Mackey, At war Flannigan and Fallon Bowman.

Several offshoot bands of Pigface, wrestle smaller sized all-star groups featuring Martin Atkins as a accepted member, have released albums lasting the time Pigface was in a deep slumber.

These bands include Murder, Inc., The Damage Manual, Ritalin, Actor Atkins And The Chicago Profit-making League, Spasm, and The Prize Interest.

In March 2019, Atkins announced that Pigface would rope again for the first put off in fourteen years with xiii dates scheduled for the Easterly coast and Midwest in Nov 2019.^[6] On February 12, 2020, a larger, national tour was announced to be taking souk throughout May, June and July of that year.

However, reassignment April 2, 2020, Atkins prefab the announcement that, as put in order result of the COVID-19 omnipresent, the tour had been canceled.

Rieflin died on March 24, 2020, from cancer at high-mindedness age of 59.^[7]

Members and collaborators

The following is a partial listing of musicians who have wilful to Pigface at some depression in the band's history, whether one likes it it be appearing live significance a band member, performing bar an album, or contributing elegant remix of a Pigface song.^[8]

Discography

Main article: Pigface discography

Studio albums

References

Bibliography

External links