Ministry - Filth Pig mp3 download

Qulcelat

My copy has a full white boarder on the cover, does anyone have this?

Azago

First MOV pressing where the artwork doesn't look like an enlarged 72dpi Google image. Pot Luck #000011 :) :)

Ffleg

Even though the songs are really crammed on both sides, the dynamic range is MUCH better than CD/digital. Very good pressing and excellent art reproduction, right down to using the actual "Ministry Filth Pig" sticker on the cover (not printed on thankfully).

Najinn

Is this really an official version? I remember seeing plenty of these "deluxe" box sets with dodgy t-shirts and whatnot back in the 90s, looks exactly like one of them.

Gandree

Another fantastic reissue from Music On Vinyl. Sounds tight and punchy and the record itself is very quiet with no surface noise at all.

Wild Python

Yes, its a good pressing. Mine as the number, MOV 000131.

Melipra

Filth Pig, it's all in the name. By far Ministrys least electronically infused record. This album features sludgy guitars, BIG drumming from Reiflin, mandolin and harmonica soloes, a Bob Dylan cover, a ballad, and lots of doomy guitar riffs. Fans of Burning Witch and Melvins will feel right at home with Filth Pig, but for your typical Ministry fans this record was rather alienating. It doesn't have all the drum machine thrash beats and sampler-chopped guitar riffs that industrial fans were used too. Instead we see Ministry doing their damnedest to be a live metal/rock band. Unfortunately this record was the height of tension for alot of the band members, but the outcome is purely satisfying to any fan of vitriolic heavy music. Filth Pig will forever be my favorite Ministry album. Give it a chance, if you don't like it right away try again, it just might grow on you. Dark Side and Animositomina make great followups as well, a trilogy of Ministrys finest work.

Munimand

Sounds ok considering they jammed 25 minutes of music onto side one and almost 30 minutes on side two. You really have to crank the volume for it to sound decent. Another label that plugs 180 gram as "audiophile" even though thick vinyl does nothing for sound quality and then does amateur mistakes like jamming too much music on each side.

Braswyn

Quote from my sales rep at the pressing place I use: "To be honest, 29 minutes is ridiculous unless its an acoustic or spoken word LP"Labels are piling on too much music per side because it saves them money. Sometimes it turns out okay but it's a stupid risk.

Sti

I really can't complain about MoV reissues soundwise, they generally do a great job, proper vinyl mastering is quite rare these days especially from a label focusing on reissues from a pretty wide range of music styles. It's true that Filth Pig would have been perfect for a 2xLP treatment, but lenghts are not necessary related to sound quality depending how it's done, even if usually, it's better to stick around 20 minutes, that's just not necessary a quality proof.Beside that, as you said, sound is really good, no distortions or annoying things, bass guitar sounds way better (and heavier) than the brickwalled CD to my ears. They certainly used the original masters for this pressing, as they did with the other Ministry reissues, all are really great and I can't say how much I'm pleased to see GREAT looking and sounding reissues for a band that really deserved it, MoV did really good here. Even Dark Side of the Spoon, which was a CD-only release, sounds definitely better than the CD - no CD transfer here.I hope Animositisomina and the bush trilogy will get (good) vinyl releases at some point, only vinyl reissues for The Last Sucker and Rio Grande Blood were done by Night of the Vinyl Dead, which is a crappy collector items labels, their stuff is not meant to be listened, just placed in a showcase... prices are fucking awful too.

Jozrone

Quite amazing how Ministry update and change their sound with every album, here they provide hard hitting industrial sludge metal. The title track is like taking Depeche Mode's I "Feel You" and soaking it in a swamp to spawn that proper filthy Southern monster sound. But they never become predictable, "Lay Lady Lay" is just a mind-boggling cover version, almost pop-like, a fitting light hearted dessert to finish off all that bottom heavy sludge with.

Just_paw

Nice pressing from MOV, as always :) Definitely better than CD.

Kesalard

There is a perception that Filth Pig was different from what Ministry did. But actually it does not sound radically different from what went before, simply a whole lot less varied. Much of the sound of Filth Pig carries on from Scarecrow from the previous album. There is a tendency for those who dislike this album to focus on the 'sludge' of say The Fall (or basically tracks 5-9), rather than focus on Reload or Brick Windows; but Al Jourgensen had done sludge before - Lard's Time to Melt, a real endurance test if you don't like Filth Pig!Filth Pig confirmed Ministry's sound as guitar driven, rather than electronic as it had been in the 80s, and that seems to be only difference.

Cala

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Steep

Back in '96 I had just heavily dosed on Valium when I first heard this album and liked it immediately.The song "Filth Pig" is one of my all-time favorites of ANY genre. "Lava" rocks it! An album full of sludge if there ever was one. "Dead Guy" makes me sad. "Useless" need I say more.... I'm not a Bob Dylan by any stretch of the imagination, (Fucking 'boomers. If they did what they claimed to do we wouldn't be in the mess we're in.) But that hazy night saw me listen to "Lay Lady Lay" a few times in a row. I had read about it a magazine and I wanted to see how MINISTRY did it. I just kept dropping the needle on it. Yes my first experience with the "Filth" was on vinyl! Now I don't listen to that track at all because the rest of the album is KILLER HEAVY.I could go on but I will say this much. I think "Filth Pig" "Dark Side of the Spoon" and "Animositisomina" are VASTLY under rated. Warners wanted more of Psalm 69 and instead got the three best albums Ministry ever made. Yeah you heard me. Although "Houses..." "Rio Grande..." and "Last.." kick ass too.I'm just a Ministry fan from LORAH onward.Just got Relapse. Read good and bad reviews. And just got the "Fix" film from the "Filth Pig" era. Gonna watch it as soon as I finished here. MINISTRY...MINISTRY...MINISTRY!!!

Abywis

Is this the rarer of the 2 us versions? Any know

Huston

Indeed, a truly underrated record, nearly a masterpiece in my opinion - but I must confess that it took me a couple years to eventually get into it, even though I had been a fan of the band since the late eighties.

Gaudiker

indeed mine has no insert.

Cordanius

Major labels are a for-profit concept, they occupy the repugnant territory of commerce being made out of art. It is for this reason I find Filth Pig to be such an excellent work. Warner Bros. had to promote this thing months before it came out, via the radical left turn of The Fall. When Luxa and Pan did return to the public eye, it was no longer as the darlings of LOLapalooza but as yet again, renegades under the corporate banner. There was just enough smelling of profit to get away with this, but it's no surprise the band were dropped after their next album Dark Side of the Spoon.I cannot think of a louder or more strident 'fuck you' being delivered to a record company than Filth Pig. Trading in the hard and fast elements of previous work, Ministry spewed venom. They vomited bile onto the expectations of their new-found fair-weather mtv fans. Slowing it down tempo-wise proved to be a very prescient move on the part of Jourgenson and Barker. I hadn't thought them capable of such glorious grind.This is when Ministry became a seriously powerful rock band. Call their brand of rock whatever you like but there are no complaints here about what they accomplished. It's a shame that this outing proved to be a one-off, the arrangements and overall complexity still reveal themselves further with each listen. 15 years later.

Hrguig

I totally agree with the other reviewers. Filth pig is maybe the best ministry album...well at least for me it is. And it is one of my all time favourite albums. Don't know why, but everyone expects from ministry fast and speed metal type releases. They fell in that trap with their last albums and that's why the good tunes are missing from them. Filth pig has killer songs like ''The fall'', ''Dead guy'', ''Lava'' and ''Filth pig''. I have a feeling that this is Al Jourgensens favourite Ministry album. If you're a Ministry fan and you don't like this album...Sorry you're not a ministry fan

Celore

Am I the only one who actually likes "Filth Pig"? I remember when it was released back in 1996: any magazine or fanzine said it was a disappointment, a bad album, the beginning of the end of Ministry. Anyone was expecting something faster and more violent than "Psalm 69", but no one understood that the only possible answer was to slow down and explore dark, gloomy atmospheres. Honestly, how could you possibly go faster than "Psalm 69"? Apart from the initial dissonant chaos of "Reload", an appropriate title for a track which sounds like a heating exercise, both "Filth Pig" and, especially "Lava", are original and intriguing swamps of doom/sludge sounds, slow hypnotical rhythms and strange tunes sounding like country music played by undead cowboys in the middle of Mexican ghost town. "The Fall" is exciting, the album's best song and, imo, one of Ministry's best, apocalyptic, desperate and even melodic, with deformed piano chords swinging on a background of heavy machinery noise rhythms and Jourgensen's epic singing. Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" is turned into an interesting noise rock ride, possibly one of the band's most "commercial" exploits, while final "Brick Windows" is another very good piece of work. The four central tracks, from "Crumbs" to "Game Show" are, indeed, weak and rather uninteresting, you can skip theme without regrets. On the whole, "Filth Pig" is surely not a masterpiece, but it's still a very good album in Ministry's discography, featuring some great examples of their courage to change and experiment with their sound on each release. Maybe now that they have disbanded someone will start rediscovering it.

Adoranin

Thank you! :)

Lesesshe

Great review; and i completely agree with you; 'Filth Pig' is a really underrated album, plus the Dylan cover of 'Lay Lady Lay' is one of my favourite Ministry's song ever !

Ce

This release, with its machine-music guitar-drone flow, has a particular effect of enveloping the listener in beautiful rhythmic waves of sound. (Yes, with a hard edge — this is Ministry!) A wonderful album.

Keel

To me this personally is the best Ministry release - even though I like most their albums. What makes Filthpig special is the heavyness and the handling of the bass I feel. This is the CD I really recommend - much more than the past releases after it!