Kiss the Pig explained

Kiss the Pig
Type:studio
Artist:Today Is the Day
Cover:Today Is the Day - Kiss the Pig.jpeg
Recorded:
Studio:Austin Enterprise, Nashville, Tennessee
Mastering, Clinton, Massachusetts
Genre:Grindcore
Length:36:26
Label:Relapse, Rococo
Producer:Steve Austin
Prev Title:Sadness Will Prevail
Prev Year:2002
Next Title:Axis of Eden
Next Year:2007

Kiss the Pig is the seventh album by Today Is the Day, released on June 29, 2004 through Relapse Records. Lyrically, the album takes inspiration from the presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War.[1] Steve Austin wrote most of the album after a live performance the band played with Slayer in Japan.[2] The same show is where the group met Japanese charcoal artist Takanami Kazuhiko, whose painting titled Evileyes was chosen for the album's cover before recording even began.[3]

The album's title is supposed to be a reference to Austin's critique of capitalism and American society, and was inspired by how "all of us, from the day we are born are taught to love and worship money, even though money is the ruin of mankind."[3]

Accolades

YearPublicationCountryAccoladeRankclass=unsortable
2004 Rock Sound United Kingdom"Albums of the Year" 45 [4]
"*" denotes an unordered list.

Personnel

Adapted from the Kiss the Pig liner notes.[5]

Today Is the Day

Production

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States2004RelapseCDRR 6619
RococoLPRCC-0004

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Belcher. Tony. Today Is The Day Interview . www.tartareandesire.com. August 3, 2016.
  2. Web site: Smith. Evil. Today Is Another Day. lordsofmetal.nl. Lords Of Metal. August 3, 2016.
  3. Web site: Schultz . Carl . Today Is The Day: Studio Report . https://web.archive.org/web/20040904021454/http://shop.relapse.com/content/resound.aspx?EditorialID=90 . dead . 2004-09-04 . shop.relapse.com . Resound Magazine/Relapse Records . 2018-10-09 .
  4. Critics' Poll 2004 . June 12, 2013 . Rock Sound.
  5. Kiss the Pig . Kiss the Pig . . 2004 . booklet . . Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania.