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Halo 7 - March Of The Pigs

March Of The Pigs (also known as Halo 7) is a single by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released on February 25, 1994. It was released as a teaser single prior to the album The Downward Spiral.

Track listing

US version

March Of The Pigs - Halo 7 UK Part 1 Cover

March Of The Pigs - Halo 7 UK Part 2 Cover

"March Of The Pigs" – 2:54
"Reptilian" (remixed by Dave Ogilvie) – 8:39
"All the Pigs, All Lined Up" – 7:25
"A Violet Fluid" – 1:05
"Underneath The Skin" (remixed by Dave Ogilvie) – 7:13

UK version

Disc 1

"March Of The Pigs" (clean version) – 2:54
"All the Pigs, All Lined Up" – 7:25
"A Violet Fluid" – 1:03
"Big Man With A Gun" – 1:36

Disc 2

"March Of The Pigs" (LP version) – 2:54
"Underneath The Skin" – 7:14
"Reptilian" – 8:39

9" Vinyl

Limited to 5000 copies. Same artwork as CD pt. 1.
     A1 "March Of The Pigs" (clean version) – 2:54
     A2 "All the Pigs, All Lined Up" – 7:25
     B1 "A Violet Fluid" – 1:05
     B2 "Underneath The Skin" – 7:13
Also released on 7" with the title track on the A-side and "A Violet Fluid" on the B-side, limited to 5000 copies as well. Most vinyl versions typo B1 as "A Violent Fluid."

Credits

"Reptile" reconstructions by Dave Ogilvie

Artwork

On his website[1], Russell Mills detailed the ideas and materials that went into the painting (titled "The Possible Slow Fuse") used for the cover:

This piece came out of my reading about the lives of the early Christians in Roman times. One of the many ways that the Romans subjugated the Christians, apart from forcing them to live in the ghetto that was the Catacombs, was to forbid them to wear any emblems or jewellery of religious iconography or idolatry. However the Christians developed an ingenious method of subverting this ruling by collecting rose petals, hardening them in candle smoke and threading 165 to make, what looked to the Romans like cheap jewellery, which held no significance, no meaning and no threat. These were in fact the first Rosary beads. The Latin - Sub Rosa, which literally means under the rose, has also come to mean in secret. I admired this act of quiet, non-violent subversion and felt it to be a relevant metaphor for the 5 track single March of the Pigs. The work is made of plaster, acrylics, oils, gold leaf, metal and smoked rose petals on a wooden panel.

The inner cover of the US version and the disc art of the UK version features a rolled-up millipede, an image that was also used as the disc art for The Downward Spiral. The master image from which these images were made was used for the cover of Closer To God.

Releases

Nothing Records / TVT Records / Interscope Records / Atlantic Records 95938-2 - US CD
TVT Records / Interscope Records INTDM-95938 - US CD Re-release
Island Records CID 592 854 001-2 - UK CD 1
Island Records CIDX 592 854 003-2 - UK CD 2

Covers

"March Of The Pigs" has been covered by Owl, Mae, and fordirelifesake.

External links

Discography

Previous release - "Fixed"

Halo number: 7

Next release - "The Downward Spiral"

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 On his website[http://www.russellmills.com/mills/installations/committere.html], [[Russell Mills]] detailed the ideas and materials that went into the painting (titled "The Possible Slow Fuse") used for the cover:
-<blockquote>"This piece came out of my reading about the lives of the early Christians in Roman times. One of the many ways that the Romans subjugated the Christians, apart from forcing them to live in the ghetto that was the Catacombs, was to forbid them to wear any emblems or jewellery of religious iconography or idolatry. However the Christians developed an ingenious method of subverting this ruling by collecting rose petals, hardening them in candle smoke and threading 165 to make, what looked to the Romans like cheap jewellery, which held no significance, no meaning and no threat. These were in fact the first Rosary beads. The Latin - Sub Rosa, which literally means ''under the rose'', has also come to mean ''in secret''. I admired this act of quiet, non-violent subversion and felt it to be a relevant metaphor for the 5 track single ''March of the Pigs''.  The work is made of plaster, acrylics, oils, gold leaf, metal and smoked rose petals on a wooden panel."</blockquote>
+<blockquote>This piece came out of my reading about the lives of the early Christians in Roman times. One of the many ways that the Romans subjugated the Christians, apart from forcing them to live in the ghetto that was the Catacombs, was to forbid them to wear any emblems or jewellery of religious iconography or idolatry. However the Christians developed an ingenious method of subverting this ruling by collecting rose petals, hardening them in candle smoke and threading 165 to make, what looked to the Romans like cheap jewellery, which held no significance, no meaning and no threat. These were in fact the first Rosary beads. The Latin - Sub Rosa, which literally means ''under the rose'', has also come to mean ''in secret''. I admired this act of quiet, non-violent subversion and felt it to be a relevant metaphor for the 5 track single ''March of the Pigs''.  The work is made of plaster, acrylics, oils, gold leaf, metal and smoked rose petals on a wooden panel.</blockquote>
 The inner cover of the US version and the disc art of the UK version features a rolled-up millipede, an image that was also used as the disc art for ''The Downward Spiral''. The master image from which these images were made was used for the cover of ''[[Closer To God (halo)|Closer To God]]''.