Jack Kilcoyne
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Pig Benis is the bass guitarist for Cleveland, Ohio
alternative metal band Mushroomhead
. He joined the band in 1995, replacing his brother Joe Kilcoyne aka Mr. Murdernickel.
Kilcoyne can be identified in Mushroomhead as wearing a 'Mushroomhead' bandanna on his pig head mask that features the X face for the 2006 album Savior Sorrow
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The name "Pig Benis" is a spoonerism
of "Big Penis"; while performing, he wears a pig mask with or without a nose ring, but has been known to sometimes wear a generic Mushroomhead mask with just a headband.
In the music video for "Your Soul Is Mine" from the Saw VI soundtrack, he features the pig mask from the Saw
movies. But this was the only occurrence of him using this mask, changing back to his previous pig mask for Mushroomhead's most recent album "Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (album)
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Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
alternative metal band Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American industrial metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland Warehouse District, the band's music can be described as a synthesis of alternative music, heavy metal, and electro-industrial...
. He joined the band in 1995, replacing his brother Joe Kilcoyne aka Mr. Murdernickel.
Biography
Kilcoyne also plays bass for the Cleveland based band (216), which features other past and present members of Mushroomhead. He also played bass in another Cleveland based metal band called Ritual, though little information is known of the band.Kilcoyne can be identified in Mushroomhead as wearing a 'Mushroomhead' bandanna on his pig head mask that features the X face for the 2006 album Savior Sorrow
Savior Sorrow
Savior Sorrow is the sixth studio album release and the follow-up to 2003's XIII by the Cleveland, Ohio based industrial metal band Mushroomhead. It is their first release through Megaforce Records...
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The name "Pig Benis" is a spoonerism
Spoonerism
A spoonerism is an error in speech or deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched . It is named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner , Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency...
of "Big Penis"; while performing, he wears a pig mask with or without a nose ring, but has been known to sometimes wear a generic Mushroomhead mask with just a headband.
In the music video for "Your Soul Is Mine" from the Saw VI soundtrack, he features the pig mask from the Saw
Saw
A saw is a tool that uses a hard blade or wire with an abrasive edge to cut through softer materials. The cutting edge of a saw is either a serrated blade or an abrasive...
movies. But this was the only occurrence of him using this mask, changing back to his previous pig mask for Mushroomhead's most recent album "Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (album)
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (album)
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is the seventh studio album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by Megaforce Records. The first single from the album is the song, "Come On" which was released on August 16, 2010.On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was...
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Mushroomhead
- "SuperbuickSuperbuickSuperbuick is the second independently released album from industrial metal band Mushroomhead. The album was released in 1996. Most of the songs were later remastered on XX which was initially released by Eclipse Records, then through Universal Records after some slight modifications and two...
" - 1996 - "Remix" - 1997
- "M3M3 (album)M3 is the third album released by the industrial metal band Mushroomhead. It was released in 1999 on their own label. The songs Before I Die, Solitaire/Unraveling, Xeroxed and Born of Desire were later included on both the Eclipse Records and Universal Records versions of XX in 2001.-Track...
" - 1999 - "Remix 2000Remix 2000Remix 2000 was the re-release of the Multimedia Remix album by Mushroomhead from 1997, featuring a few new tracks and without the videos from the original release...
" - 2000 - "XXXX (album)XX is the fourth major label album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead, released in 2001. Originally released through Eclipse Records, where Mushroomhead took classic tracks and re-recorded them. XX was entirely re-recorded and re-released on Universal Records later in the year...
" - 2001 - "XIIIXIII (album)XIII is the fifth major label album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead, released in 2003. The album debuted at No. 40 on the Billboard 200 and sold 400,000 copies worldwide...
" - 2003 - "Savior SorrowSavior SorrowSavior Sorrow is the sixth studio album release and the follow-up to 2003's XIII by the Cleveland, Ohio based industrial metal band Mushroomhead. It is their first release through Megaforce Records...
" - 2006 - "Beautiful Stories For Ugly ChildrenBeautiful Stories for Ugly ChildrenBeautiful Stories for Ugly Children is a comic book series written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Dan Sweetman, published by DC Comics under the Piranha Press imprint from June 1989 until September 1992, a total of 30 issues in the run .In late 2006, Dave Louapre announced there would be a...
" - 2010