Industrial super group (or in their own words "asylum for the musically insane" *), started by Martin Atkins and Bill Rieflin while they were touring with Ministry. The lineup changes constantly and reads like a roll call of all industrial musicians around. Over time the following people have played with Pigface:
- Patti Adachi
- Steve Albini of Big Black, Rapeman, and Shellac
- Martin Atkins of Public Image Limited, Ministry, Killing Joke, Murder Inc. etc.
- David Babbitt
- Michael Balch of Front Line Assembly, Will, Revolting Cocks and Ministry
- Siggi Baldursson of the Sugarcubes
- Paul Barker of Lead into Gold, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, PTP, Acid Horse, 1000 Homo DJs, Lard, Pailhead, and Blackouts
- Becky Wreck of Lunachicks
- Beefcake the Mighty of Gwar
- Jenny Bellestar
- Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys and Lard
- Bella Black
- Bob Dog of Evil Mothers
- Bones
- Boozie
- Caspar Brotzmann of Massaker
- Mary Byker of Gaye Bykers on Acid, Hyperhead and Apollo 440
- Danny Carey of Tool
- Meg Lee Chin (O' Leary) of Crunch and The Great White Trash
- Dana Cochrane
- Chris Connelly of Ministry, PTP, Acid Horse, The Love Interest, FiniTribe, Murder Inc, and Revolting Cocks
- Steve Crittall
- Marston Daley aka Buzz McCoy of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
- Arturo De Leon of Martyr Colony
- Duane Denison of The Jesus Lizard, Cargo Cult, Revolting Cocks and The Denison/Kimball Trio
- Mike Dillon
- Taime Downe of Faster Pussycat and The Newlydeads
- King Duncan (aka Duncan X) of Sheep on Drugs
- F.M. Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten
- En Esch of KMFDM
- Gus Ferguson of Test Dept.
- Paul Ferguson of Killing Joke, Murder Inc., and the Orb
- DJ Jordan Fields
- Fil
- Dirk Flanigan of 77 Luscious Babes
- Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Bart Flores of Wreck
- Flour(Peter Conway) of Riflesport and Breaking Circus
- Jonathan Formula
- Black Francis (aka Frank Black) of Pixies and The Catholics
- Andrew "Fuzz" Duprey of Silverfish
- Dwayne Goettel of Skinny Puppy, Cyberaktif, and Doubting Thomas
- Laura Gomel of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
- Michael Gira of Swans and Skin
- Gry
- Mick Harris of Napalm Death, Scorn and Lull
- Chris Haskett of Rollins Band
- Marc Heal of Cubanate and C-Tec
- Neil Hubbard
- Barbara Hunter (Ruchoft) of Roundhead
- Sean Joyce of Revolting Cocks
- David Kendricks
- cEvin Key (AKA Kevin Crompton) of Skinny Puppy, Cyberaktif, Tear Garden, Doubting Thomas, Dead Voices on Air and Download
- Martin King of Test Dept.
- Algis Kizys of Swans
- Krztoff of Bile
- Amy Larson
- Tom Lash of Lucky Pierre and Hot Tin Roof
- Levi (Charles) Levi of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Silence
- Obioma Little
- Jared Louche of Chemlab and Jared Louche and the Aliens
- Lunar
- Lydia Lunch
- John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of Public Image Limited and the Sex Pistols
- Curse Mackey of Evil Mothers and Spasm
- Andy Maguire of Spoon
- Jim Marcus of Die Warzau
- Doug McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb
- Jason McNinch of Lick
- Kurt Moore
- Jason More
- Michie Nakatami
- Hope Nicholls of Sugarsmack and Fetchin' Bones
- Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) of Skinny Puppy, OhGr (formerly known as W.E.L.T.), Revolting Cocks, and Ministry
- Vicki Omega
- Genesis P. Orridge (Jennifer) of Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle
- Alex Paterson of Orb
- Lee Popa
- Eric Pounder of Pounder and Dead Voices on Air
- Chris Randall of Sister Machine Gun
- Lesley Rankine of Silverfish and Ruby
- Paul Raven of Prong, Murder Inc, and Killing Joke
- Bobby Rea
- Marydee Reynolds of Chainsuck
- Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
- William Rieflin of Ministry, Revolting Cocks, KMFDM, Acid Horse, PTP, 1000 Homo DJs, Lard, Pailhead, Blackouts, and Swans
- Matt Schultz of Lab Report
- Jim Sochaki
- Pat Sprawl of Skinny Puppy and Dead Surf Kiss
- David William Sims of the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid
- Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air
- Ben Stokes
- Louis Svitek of Mindfunk, Ministry, and Front Line Assembly
- James Teitelbaum of Evil Clowns and Silence
- Terry
- James Thirlwell (AKA Clint Ruin) of Foetus, Wiseblood, Steroid Maximus, Garage Monsters, and about 19 others...
- Dave Trumfio of The Pulsars
- Joe Trump of Eliott Sharp's Carbon
- William Tucker of My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Ministry
- Keith van Horne
- Chris Vrenna of Nine Inch Nails and The Smashing Pumpkins
- Mark Walk of Ruby and OhGr
- Geordie Walker of Killing Joke
- Jeff Ward
- Scott Watanabe
- Dean Ween of Ween
- Andrew Weiss of Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers and Ween
- Astrid Weltz
- John Wills
- Dave Wright of Not Breathing
- Atsuko Yamano of Shonen Knife
- Naoko Yamano of Shonen Knife
- Adam Yoffe
- Youth of Killing Joke
- David Yow of the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid
- Zaki (the human beat box)
Needless to say: with that many people involved the resulting music is... varied...
*) This term was coined for Pigface when they wanted to get rid of the "super group of industrial music" label.
So what's wrong with calling them a super group? Martin Atkins once said: "...we could put a chair on stage and call it Pigface... I don’t think we’d sell many t-shirts though..."