March Of The Pigs

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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. It is one of several singles to get a 9" vinyl release. On his website, 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 time. One of the many ways that the Romans subjugated the Christian, apart from forcing them to live in the ghetto that was the Catacomb, 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 petal, 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 bead. 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 Pig. The work is made of plaster, acrylic, oil, gold leaf, metal and smoked rose petals on a wooden panel." .

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