Filth Pig

about this album

Filth Pig is the sixth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a filthy pig by MP Teddy Taylor. Despite being the band's highest-charting album in the US, it sharply divided the band's fanbase and was a commercial failure. The sound was a huge departure from previous albums, with influences from sludge and doom metal. This would be the last Ministry album to be recorded with Mike Scaccia on guitar until the 2004 release of Houses of the Molé. Scaccia did not tour to support Filth Pig. Filth Pig marked a major shift artistically for the band from their previous album. Jourgensen said everyone around him wanted him to continue making music similar to Psalm 69. However, he wanted to move away from using samples and focus on a slower, heavier sound. Jourgensen rejected any songs that sounded like their previous work. "Everyone hated . They all wanted Psalm 70, and I gave them an electronic-free record full of gun-in-mouth dirges of nothing but pain. Aside from the cover art, the humour was gone. All that was left was misery. And I still had to tour the fucking thing—which went down in history as the interminable, intolerable, absolutely depraved Sphinctour." — Al Jourgensen (2013) The 2002 live album Sphinctour was generally well received by critics. User-contributed text is available unde

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