Schwein (German for pig as well as pork) is a music group comprising members of Buck-Tick, KMFDM, and Pig.
Members Raymond Watts (PIG; vocals, programming, guitar) and Hisashi Imai (Buck-Tick; guitar and noise), both having worked together in Schaft, were joined by Atsushi Sakurai (Buck-Tick; vocals), Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM; vocals and programming) and Lucia Cifarelli (KMFDM; vocals).
[4] Schwein toured Japan in the summer of 2001.
However, Konietzko did not tour with them, citing illness and a desire to focus on KMFDM.
[5] In a 2023 interview with Visual Music Japan, Raymond Watts talked about the project and cited Schwein as his favorite collaboration to date and called Sakurai a "grand vocalist".