Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs have announced details of a new album called ‘Death Hilarious’. Check out the latest single, ‘Stitches’ below.
The forthcoming album will mark the fifth studio album from the Newcastle band, and it is set for release on April 4 via Rocket Recordings. Visit here to pre-order.
Marking their first record since 2023’s ‘Land Of The Sleeper’, the members have looked to capture a more hostile, brazen approach on the forthcoming LP – inspired partly by the electric live shows they have been playing over the past two years.
Today (January 23), the band have shared a preview of the album in the form of the doom-inspired single ‘Stitches’.
Kicking in with a wall of doom-inspired guitars, the track arrives alongside a captivating, unconventional music video directed by Faircloth. It depicts the members being mutilated by fauna in a nightmarish alternate reality. Check it out below.
“I’m aware our band sits in a world largely commandeered by bravado, confidence and machoism,” began frontman Matt Baty, describing the inspiration for the track. “But ‘Stitches’ is an expression of vulnerability, paradoxical emotions and those so familiar pangs of anxiety I wrestle with while butting heads with societal expectations and personal struggles.”
As for the album as a whole, the sound captured is set to feel like a “slap in the face”, according to producer and guitarist Sam Grant. It is also set to replicate the raw, unfiltered energy that the members capture while on stage.
“The result is a diversely punishing record that shape-shifts through Sabbathian doom, grotesquely minimalist noise rock and cyclical post-metal fortissimos,” reads a press description of the LP. “As for the words, they emerged from a bout of anxiety which derailed Matt Baty’s self-confidence to the extent that he wondered whether he’d be able to write any lyrics again.”
As well as ‘Stitches’, the upcoming LP is also set to include the previously-announced single ‘Detroit’.
Shared last November, the frontman described the lead single as one that “reflects on the worst manifestations of male jealousy and resentment, and the ways in which a lack of accountability can lead to deflecting responsibility in exchange for blaming external forces like fate or God for perceived injustice”.
Later this year Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs will also be gearing up for an upcoming tour – making their way across the UK and Europe in the spring.
The dates kick off with an opening night at Chalk in Brighton on April 3 2025. From there, they will make stops in London, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester and more before wrapping up their UK leg at St Luke’s in Glasgow on April 13.
The following month, they’ll head overseas for a handful of European tour dates. Check out a full list of tour dates below and visit here to buy tickets.
Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs 2025 tour dates are:
APRIL
3 – Brighton, CHALK
4 – London, KOKO
5 – Bristol, SWX
7 – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
8 – Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon
9 – Birkenhead, Future Yard
11 – Manchester, New Century Hall
12 – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
15 – Edinburgh, La Belle Angèle
16 – Glasgow, St Luke’s
MAY
17 – Paris, La Maroquinerie
22 – Cologne, Gebäude 9
23 – Düdingen, Bad Bonn
24 – Munich, Strom
26 – Leipzig, UT Connewitz
27 – Berlin, Säälchen
28 – Hamburg, Knust
