John Fryer’s Black Needle Noise plants one of it’s most sinister seeds to date with it’s latest single release ‘Seed Of Evil’ Ft. Raymond Watts of <PIG>. This latest track is a true match made in Hell with a most unholy collaboration that brings together two of the darkest forces in the industrial music scene today. John Fryer’s intense and unforgiving production on “Seed of Evil” is a perfect fit for vocalist Raymond Watts’ menacing growl, inflaming the track’s foreboding lyrics about letting evil overcome one’s self. ‘Seed Of Evil’ is sure to be a hit in the darkest of dance clubs and beyond.
“When John Fryer called, it was like cream was fed to my poison crop. I was thrilled to lend Satan’s little helping hand to Black Needle Noise,” says Watts of the devilish collaboration. “The result from this marriage made in hell was appropriately called ‘Seed of Evil’ … it pours out of me into the night, where the devil ties it nice and tight.”
Fryer meanwhile states, “After many a moon passing we finally get to work together again. I had to find the right song for Raymond but I think we have a great noise-pop hit on our hands. It’s been a real pleasure working with Raymond on this and I can’t wait to hear it in the clubs.”
John Fryer Photo by Martha Schuster
John Fryer is a multi-platinum selling record producer and musician. Starting in 1980 at London’s Blackwing Studios, he worked for some of the most prestigious indie labels at the time like 4AD, Mute, and Rough Trade. He has produced and worked with many influential artists for which the list is both extensive and impressive including; Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode, Wire, NIN and Love And Rockets. John was also a long standing member of Ivo Watts-Russell’s ‘ This Mortal Coil and has had his own bands over the years including; DarkDriveClinic, Muricidae, Silver Ghost Shimmer and now Black Needle Noise.
Raymond Watts Photo by Gabriel Edvy
<PIG> have had a very exciting and active history since his beginnings in the late 80s. Raymond Watts has been a visible part of the industrial music scene since the early 1980s. He was a founding member and lead singer with KMFDM through their most prolific and successful period from 1984-2003, Nine Inch Nails, Schaft, Schwein, and Einstürzende Neubauten, among others. He has written music for fashion and film for Chloe, Marios Schwab, Halston, The Row and the sound design for the exhibit Punk: Chaos to Couture at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the most ground-breaking and perhaps most rewarding was his collaboration with the late and immensely celebrated fashion icon Alexander McQueen who commissioned Watts and his old Psychic TV partner-in-crime John Gosling to embellish the serene instrumental track “Inside” (from <PIG>’s Genuine American Monster album). The fluid soundtrack to McQueen’s masterpiece, Plato’s Atlantis, the show was reprised after McQueen’s untimely death as the finale of Savage Beauty, the posthumous retrospective that broke all records at The Metropolitan Music of Art in New York and Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
John Fryer’s Black Needle Noise is a 50/50 partnership between Fryer and many different talented singer/songwriters, including Attasalina, Mimi Page,ZiaLand,Omniflux, Jarboe, Betsy Martin, Andrea Kerr, Ledfoot, Spectra Paris,Jennie Vee, Ana Breton, Kendra Frost, Elena Alice Fossi, Antic Clay,Andreas Elvenes, Bill Leeb, Sivert Høyem, Fakeba, Madame ur y sus Hombres, Beca, Betty X , Yvette, Chris Connelly, Marselle Hodges, and Raymond Watts.
“Seed Of Evil” is now available on Black Needle Noise’s Bandcamp HERE. <PIG> will be heading out on the Divine Descent Tour from September 19 to October 6, tour dates below. John Fryer will be performing an exclusive DJ set at The 8th Annual Venetian Mask Ball: The Queen of Wands on Saturday, July 27, 2019 at Next Door, Honolulu, Hawaii.. Event info HERE.
Seed Of Evil
The seed of evil’s empty gun
Hell is waiting when you’re done
The clawing sawing cutting cure
Jesus barters for the pure
In your demon dreams the new machines
Will decline and fall or the poison calls
Seed of evil’s
Empty gun
Hell is waiting
When you’re done
God know’s how and god know’s why
The truth is wrapped inside a lie
Inside a lie inside a lie inside a lie inside a lie
The seed of evil’s running thru ya
Now I’m singing hallelujah
The duty bound feed the dirty noise
And the seed of evil’s acting coy
Seed of evil’s
Empty gun
Hell is waiting
When you’re done
In your demon dreams the new machines
Will decline and fall or the poison calls
Are you feeling lucky?
God know’s how and god know’s why
The truth is wrapped inside a lie
Inside a lie inside a lie inside a lie inside a lie
The seed of evil needs to feed
The seed of evil says believe
The cream fed vicious victims lick
And like to kiss before they’re sick
In your demon dreams the new machines
Will decline and fall or the poison calls
Seed of evil
Empty gun
Hell is waiting
When you’re done
Seed of evil
Empty gun
Hell is waiting
When you’re done
Copyright R Watts 2019. Hell is waiting when you’re done …
Lyrics by © Raymond Watts
<PIG> THE DIVINE DESCENT TOUR
Sep 19 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar
Sep 20 – Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
Sep 21 – Canton, OH @ The Auricle
Sep 22 – Chicago, IL @ Coldwaves Festival
Sep 23 – Detroit, MI @ Small’s
Sep 24 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo
Sep 25 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
Sep 26 – Wilmington, DE @ Bar XIII
Sep 27 – Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
Sep 28 – Harrisburg, PA @ HMAC
Sep 29 – Richmond, VA @ Fallout
Sep 30 – Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn
Oct 01 – Orlando, FL @ Soundbar
Oct 02 – Ybor City, FL @ Crowbar
Oct 03 – New Orleans, LA @ The Goat
Oct 04 – St. Louis, MO @The Crackfox
Oct 05 – Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
Oct 06 – Minneapolis, MN @ Mortimers
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