Received criminal complaint over pig artwork

In 1997, the band released Weihnachten stinkt! (“Christmas stinks!”), a split EP with the Japanese punk band Hi-Standard . The band also received a criminal complaint from Wilhelm Gegenfurtner , the Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg over their depiction of a crucified pig on their album Uuaarrgh! and on t-shirts, which he claimed violated Germany’s blasphemy law , §166 StGB for “Defamation of religious denominations, religious societies and World view associations”. The band offered to stop selling the T-shirt if the Catholic Church put a sign on the Judensau , an anti-semitic carving on the Regensburg Cathedral dating to 1330. The artwork is censored from later pressings of the album with a reference to a court decision.