One Bad Pig

    One Bad Pig

    Austin, Texas6 reviews across 6 releases

    funk rockpunkpunk metalthrash metal
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    One Bad Pig formed around Austin, Texas, in 1985, when Paul Q-Pek and Carey Womack began using punk as a platform for Christian evangelism; the group soon played churches, youth clubs, and secular hardcore venues. Its early music combined garage roughness with speed-metal attack, while jokes about pigs, sermons, and smashed guitars kept the presentation deliberately unruly. The 1989 debut Smash tightened that approach without making it polished, using hard-rock rhythms that pushed beyond simple garage punk. Swine Flew expanded the palette, even making room for a ballad and a thrashing version of Petra's "Judas' Kiss." By I Scream Sunday in 1991, the band was writing heavier grooves and reggae-tinged passages alongside the fast material; the humor remained, but the songs carried more weight, conviction, and musical control.

    Q-Pek left One Bad Pig in 1992 and moved to Nashville, ending the original run after the Cornerstone concert documented on Live: Blow the House Down. He later released the solo album Touch the Ground in 1996 and returned for a Cornerstone appearance in 2000. The group reunited again in 2016, when scheduling prevented Phillip Owens from taking part and Paul Roraback played drums on the new project; the resulting album, Love You to Death, was funded through Kickstarter. Womack continued as a pastor in Tennessee, while Q-Pek worked outside the band as a musician and worship leader. By 2025, One Bad Pig still played occasional shows and had discussed an Austin concert and a possible Christmas album.

    6 releases reviewed