Filth Pig

Tracks:

Reload
Filth Pig
Lava
Crumbs
Useless
Dead Guy
Game Show
The Fall
Lay Lady Lay
Brick Windows

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Filth Pig arrived after an extended break that found Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker giving rural Texas life a try before retreating back to the chilled concrete of Chicago. But, despite the Lone Star roots of some of its songs and much talk of Jourgensen's budding taste for country music, Filth Pig isn't Ministry's Nashville Skyline. There may be more organic elements as guitars more to the fore at the expense of keyboards and samples, but Jourgensen and Barker's forte remains the bitter screed powered by insistent beats and pummeling riffs. Ministry may have some new tools these days (most notably standout drummer Rey Washam, formerly of Scratch Acid and Rapeman), but they're working on the same old chassis. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Best Album Ever.......2007-07-15

This highly controversial album is either loved or hated by its listeners. It's either embraced for not being Psalm 69 II, or despised for not being Psalm 69. What seems to get lost in the shuffle between the bickering as to whether this was a drug induced misstep, or a calculated move to divide the fan base, is the fact that this is a very solid album.

This album is not easy to digest, and I have to admit, that after one listen, I wasn't very impressed. Sure, songs like "Lava" and "Dead Guy" blew me away after the initial listen, but "Reload", the title track, and "Game Show" just didn't interest me at all. After popping this CD into my computer's CD Rom just about every single afternoon for a couple of weeks, it finally clicked. I finally understood the album and understood the grooves and anger that went into each song. After about 10 listens, I began to worship songs like "Game Show" and "Reload". "Game Show" is like a slowed down version of Master of Puppets and "Crumbs" and "Filth Pig" are just songs that I can't help but scream along to, although they are pretty repetitive. My biggest complaint is that I couldn't get a louder sound out of my monitor speakers. No matter how high I cranked up the volume, it just didn't seem to satisfy me. To appreciate this album, you just have to have this stuff vibrate through you. Another wonderful thing about this album is that each song is unique and has its own personality. Granted, each one of these personalities can sneak into your home at night and stab you in the back 35 times, but its easy to differentiate each song from the next. When I listen to Slayer's Reign in Blood and Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, the songs begin to sound the same, if not very similar to each other, and it gets boring after a while.

This album should be appreciated for what it is, not what it was "expected" to be.

atmospheric.......2007-01-10

I've used these songs in countless student films to get that doomy, steamy, and haunted effect. I'm not big on the singles that we released off this one, like "Reload." But "Dead Guy" and "Gameshow" just define Ministry for me. Slow, droning, tubes so over-driven they could cook eggs, drums that sound like breaking glass. The emotion that this ablum and "Dark Side of the Spoon" pulls from me is something I try and put into my own music. It might not be dance hall, but it's definately art.

You need a focused and fast mind to appreciate this album.......2006-12-29

That may sound like me just back-slapping myself but its just the cold hard facts.
The people complaining about this album remind me of the scene in the film Amadeus where the king tells Mozart that his music has 'too many notes'.
Theres literally thousands and thousands of conventional albums that are 'easy listening'. I myself like them. But when I am in a certain frame of mind I 'get' this album.
Please believe me when I say this album totally rocks, it is difficult but it is very rewarding. Though I concede its not for everyone.
A total disinterest in appealing to the masses and a laser focus on their craft. To me thats art, very few musical albums attain that label, but this one does.

The best Ministry album.......2006-04-07

This is their least popular album but easily my favorite. This really isn't an industrial album, its a rock album. But it still definitely sounds like Ministry. Their approach is still the same...repetitive grooves that give a hypnotic feel. But the difference is they combine this approach with a more organic sound via guitar, bass, and drums as opposed to samples. The drums on this album are awesome. Basically this record is just a big ugly slab of heaviness with a very dark and trippy feel. Not for everyone but I love it.

This album always gets stolen.......2006-03-14

For a album that 'supposedly sucks', it always gets stolen from me. Why? 3 reasons I can think of
1)reload: think of an angry washing machine churnning out industrial hate.
2)lay lady lay: Ministry, make a beautiful song?, say its not so!!
3)brick windows: its so catchy, damn this song is catchy, I cant stop playing this damn catchy song!!!

Other than that, I agree with the rest of the post here that say the rest is, well, quite forgetable. It definitely is NOT the great demon rejoicing and spreading its wings on the wails of the damned like you get with 'a mind is a terrible thing to taste'.

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