Pigface

Pigface operates as an industrial music collective under the direction of remixer, producer, and drummer Martin Atkins. Before establishing the project in 1990, Atkins had already contributed to Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, and Killing Joke while running his own imprint, Invisible. The concept for Pigface took shape during Ministry’s 1989-1990 tour supporting the album The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, when Atkins and then-Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin began developing the idea. Each subsequent Pigface release has featured a fresh roster of alternative superstars assembled by Atkins in keeping with the anti-authoritarian spirit of mid-1970s punk bands. From 1990 onward the collective has issued recordings that span abrasive industrial noise, punk-driven tracks, and hypnotic ambient textures, among them Gub (1990), Welcome to Mexico Asshole (1991), Fook (1992), Truth Will Out (1993), Notes From Thee Underground (1994), Feels Like Heaven (1995), A New High in Low (1997), and Eat Shit, You Fucking Redneck (1998), every one appearing on Invisible. Since its founding, Pigface has welcomed an extensive roster of punk and alternative figures that includes Steve Albini, Martin Atkins, Paul Barker, Jello Biafra, Chris Connelly, Danny Carey (Tool), Duane Denison (the Jesus Lizard), Flea, Chris Haskett (Rollins Band), cEvin Key, Shonen Knife, Lydia Lunch, John Lydon, Trent Reznor, Geordie Walker, Andrew Weiss, and David Yow, among many others. March 2001 brought the double-disc, 35-track anthology The Best of Pigface: Preaching to the Perverted. The 2003 album Easy Listening... was succeeded by five remix collections whose titles each incorporated the word “head,” among them Dubhead and Clubhead. Fook received a 2005 reissue that added two bonus discs, and the limited-edition set Head Remixes appeared the following year.