Filth Pig

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Filth Pig
Ministry album

Publication
(s)

January 30, 1996

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records

Format (s)

Record , CD

Genre (s)

Metal

Title (number)

10

running time

54 min 25 s

occupation
  • Drums : William "Bill" Rieflin, Ray Washam
  • Guitar: Louis Svitek, Mike Scaccia
  • Engineering: Zlatko Hukic, Brad Kopplin

production

  • Al Jourgensen
  • Paul Barker

Studio (s)

  • Chicago Trax Studios
chronology
Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
(1992) 		Filth Pig Dark Side of the Spoon
(1996)

Filth Pig is the sixth studio album of American industrial metal - band Ministry . The album was released on January 30, 1996.

History of origin

Drug excesses and an extensive change in the line -up preceded the creation process of the album. Topics such as the heroin addiction of the front man Al Jourgensen and the general drug problems of the band were processed musically on the album.

style

The extensive use of electronics and sampling on the previous album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs took a back seat when recording Filth Pig . Instead, the main focus is on live recordings and lower-pitched guitars with generally more monotonous instrumentation.

“ The only thing we didn't want to do was 'just a new Ministry album', […] so just switch on distortion and echo, increase the tempo and that's it. That started to bore us. So this time we played as a band and hardly used any samples. This time all instruments are actually played by hand. Apart from a spoken word sample, nothing is sampled. Everything handmade; the harmonica, the piano, pedal steel, organ - I recorded everything myself. And all the drums are live. "

- Al Jourgensen, 1996

According to Jourgensen, two songs were recorded during rehearsal and then put on the album almost unprocessed.

Single releases

The pieces reload , The Fall and the Bob Dylan - Cover Lay Lady Lay were released as singles. Only The Fall achieved notable success in the charts.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Filth Pig
  DE 28 02/12/1996 (9 weeks)
  AT 47 03/17/1996 (1 week)
  CH 50 03/03/1996 (1 week)
  UK 43 02/10/1996 (2 weeks)
  US 19th 02/17/1996 (10 weeks)
  1. Reload - 2:25 (Jourgensen, Barker)
  2. Filth Pig - 6:19 (Jourgensen, Barker)
  3. Lava - 6:30 (Jourgensen, Barker)
  4. Crumbs - 4:14 (Jourgensen, Barker, Scaccia, Svitek, Washam)
  5. Useless - 5:55 (Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Scaccia)
  6. Dead Guy - 5:15 (Jourgensen, Barker, Washam)
  7. Game Show - 7:45 (Jourgensen, Barker, Scaccia, Svitek, Washam)
  8. The Fall - 4:54 (Jourgensen, Balch)
  9. Lay Lady Lay - 5:44 (Bob Dylan)
  10. Brick Windows - 5:23 (Jourgensen, Barker)

Reviews

Robert Müller from New Rock & Metal Hammer described Filth Pig in his review of Skrew's Angel Decay XXIII as a "stroke of genius". His colleague Rüdiger Hennecke described it in his review of Dark Side of the Spoon as "by far the most bulky album that the Chicago weirdos have ever pulled out (and accordingly sold as hellishly bad)".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Filth Pig> Overview (English). In: Allmusic , accessed July 26, 2010
  2. ↑ a b c Manfred Upnmoor: Interview with Ministry , Zillo, issue no. 2/96, p. 74, February 1996
  3. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  4. ^ Robert Müller: Skrew . Angel Decay XXIII . In: New Rock & Metal Hammer , No. 10, October 1997, p. 87.
  5. ^ Rüdiger Hennecke: Ministry . Dark Side Of The Spoon . In: Hard Rock & Metal Hammer , July 1999, p. 97.

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