Very few bands have committed commercial suicide quite as stylishly as Ministry did with this album. This was the follow up to their most commercially successful album Psalm 69, released in 1992. With 4 year wait between albums as Front man Al Jorgensen put it at this time he was living of ... Read review
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FILTH PIG
Ministry: A. Jourgensen, P. Barker.On FILTH PIG, industrial progenitors Ministry eschew
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the layers of maxed-out programmings, high velocity BPMs and feral samples that dominated PSALMS 69, LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY and THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO TAST...
Advantages: It Wasn't Like The Previous Album Disadvantages: It Wasn't Like The Previous Album
Very few bands have committed commercial suicide quite as stylishly as Ministry did with this album. This was the follow up to their most commercially successful album Psalm 69, released in 1992. With 4 year wait between albums as Front man Al Jorgensen put it at this time he was living of DST (Dealer Central Time) which is about 6 months after everyone else, this and the fact the album was totally different to the metally Psalm 69. On top of that ... ...the wake of Kurt Cobains death admitting to using Heroin was a very bad thing. Also if we look at the musical climate at the time with Britt Pop at its peak, you have to admit that a dark heavy and uncompromising Album was not going to get rave reviews. Even the heavy metal press slated it, but what do music journalists know about music anyway. The final factor in this albums unpopularity was that it was not Psalm 70. Psalm 69 had been a great critical ...
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Album Reviews: Spin (2/96, pp.84-85) - 6 - Reasonably Good - \"...discrete blasts of techno grunge--mean, pointed, and ass-kicking enough to make even the staunchest Megadeth fan boogie....Al Jourgensen turns down the TV and offers slower, druggier soundtracks and lurid existentialism...\"
Titles on disc 1
1.: Reload
2.: Filth Pig
3.: Crumbs
4.: Useless
5.: Lava
6.: Dead Guy
7.: Face
8.: Brick Windows
9.: Game Show
10.: Lay Lady Lay
11.: Reload (Edit)
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