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| length = 2:58
| BPM = 269
| versions = March Of The Pigs<br>March Of The Pigs (Instrumental)<br>March Of The Pigs (Clean)<br>All The Pigs, All Lined Up<br>March Of The Pigs (Video Version)<br>March Of The Pigs (''Fortnite Festival'' Version)<br>March Of The Pigs (''Closure'')<br>March Of The Pigs (''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'')<br>March Of The Pigs (''[[Beside You In Time (halo)|Beside You In Time]]'')
| live = [[Self Destruct Touring Cycle]] through present
}}'''"March Of The Pigs"''' is the fourth track on 1994's ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' It has one of the most unusual metres of any song to enjoy popular radio play, alternating three measures of 7/8 time with one measure of 4/4 time in the verses (in effect, a 29/8 time signature). The chorus is in the common 4/4 time signature. As a result, with eighth notes getting the count, the song has a BPM rate of 269.
===Video Games===
*''[[Rock Band]]'' (available for download)
*''Fortnite'' (available as in-game purchase)
==Versions==
===March Of The Pigs (Video Version)===
This is the version used in the studio performance music video for the song. It can be found in audio form on the US cassette release of "Closer To God" and an Australian CD compilation entitled "Obdurate: The Best Music Around", billed as "March Of The Pigs (Live)." The music video itself can be found on ''Closure'' and the 10th Anniversary DualDisc version of ''The Downward Spiral.'' Unlike most live performances of the song since its release, this one does not include an extended ending, though it does feature new pig squeal samples at the beginning.
===March Of The Pigs (''Fortnite Festival'' Version)===
This version only appears in the ''Fortnite'' game mode ''Fortnite Festival'' and differs from the album version in a few ways. The vocal track is the original as it appears on ''The Downward Spiral'', but it is clean, without any of the processing or distortion effects heard on the album version, probably to make it easier to play the game to. For censorship purposes, the two instances of the "take the skin and peel it back" lyric are removed entirely, and "I want to fuck it up" has been replaced with the preceding "I want to smash it up" lyric repeated. At the conclusion of the album version portion, there is an outro section attached. It contains a newly recorded studio version of the "all the pigs all lined up" outro that is typically played in live performances. The outro section ends abruptly.
===March Of The Pigs (''Closure'')===
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjX7yXA_fL0 "March Of The Pigs" live from ''Beside You In Time'']
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSDbeGnCg14 Snippet from the original music video]
*[https://archive.org/details/remix-nin-com-audio-02949 "March Of The Pigs" (Instrumental) at archive.org]
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