This is the long overdue re-issue of the classic Pig album Sinsation, originally recorded at Ranch Apocalypse studios in London in 1995 where Pig main man Raymond Watts collaborated with Steve White, Imai Hisashi, Karl Hyde, Jimmy Cauty, Hoppy Kamiyama, Carol Anne Reynolds and Anna Wildsmith, it was Produced in collaboration with Helen Woodward. The album was Remastered at Abbey Road.
The album opens glacially with the string intro to Serial Killer Thriller, the calm soon being destroyed by the bass drum firing off and vocal samples, central riff comes rolling though the speakers, then the deep dark vocals start laying out just what a gory scene we find before us, with chants of the album's title strewn across the industrial rock wasteland being created, that gets more fraught towards its conclusion.
Hamstrung On The Highway complete with dark vocal samples and full on raging industrial guitar, pulverizing beats and the feeling that the world is falling apart around you, all you can do is hang on for dear life, trying to sound darker than Wiseblood, so go get a gun and do your worst.
Golgotha sounds totally dark hued like the title suggests, black hellacious synths help open the gates of rumbling ambience.
The Sick are certainly twisted into dancefloor shapes, to mutate and compete with Marilyn Manson, this slowly stomps across your speakers, feel the pain and ignore the strain.
Painiac is one of those tunes that should be on the soundtrack to all the John Wick movies, crushing brutal industrial beats, deeply evil vocals moaning and complaining you won't do everything he requires, before bashing you into compliance, making sure you are too sadly dependent to walk away and too sad to stay.
Shell opens with a spoken word intro over timpani pleading for what you deserve and need, slowly building. Analgesia feels like sleeping tablets are taking control, slow piano with foreboding synths and wall shaking percussive intrusions, a gentle synth line comes through the dark noises signalling some possible hope within the malaise.
Volcano opens like the smoke is starting to billow, it's ready to erupt at any moment. The river will rise up mantra at the songs core, seems to be a more potent message now than it was then, motoric beats and heavy industrial guitar keeps this rooted on the dancefloor.
Hot Hole is that place in the darkest part of the nastiest fetish clubs, that welcomes the most damaged and deranged of club goers, he never dreamed it would come to this, no he isn't strapped down naked on a table while a Dom stubs out ciggies on his balls again, this is far worse than that, but the arguments and fights never end, your tastes and desires diverge your stuck in the Hot Hole once more.
The album closes with Transceration a dark ambient whirlpool for someone whose been sucked deep into the darkest places, but who wants eventually to find a way back to the light, a gentle conclusion to an often brutally brilliant album.
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