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https://scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/2184215/chinese-grindcore-band-pig-lead-singer-pig-cage-squeals
Lifestyle/ Entertainment

Chinese grindcore band with pig for a lead singer, Pig Cage squeals discontent with the government

  • Pig Cage, a grindcore band from Inner Mongolia, uses pig sounds instead of human vocals
  • The band’s creator, Maihem, says he didn’t like the sound of his own voice, so he decided to use a porcine substitute

Squeals and grunts are part of every metal band’s musical lexicon, and now one act from China is hogging the limelight with a novel approach. Meaty blast beats, muddy breakdowns and oinking vocals are elements that are not exactly unusual to grindcore – an extreme branch of the metal genre – but there’s a twist in the tail: this particular band is fronted by a pig. The name? Pig Cage.

The man behind Pig Cage is a graphic designer and musician, known only as Maihem (which he pronounces “ma-heem”), who expresses his disgruntlement with the Chinese government by sampling a splenetic swine on his album “Screaming Pig in China”. Pig Cage’s “lyrics” may be indistinguishable, but the sentiment is clear: Maihem has an abattoir’s worth of axes to grind.