Ministry - Dark Side Of The Spoon mp3 download

Tiainar

Probably the least convincing Ministry album, although some interesting ideas and experiments were tried here, "Dark Side Of The Spoon" came at the end of a difficult period for Al Jourgensen's band. The slow, doomish atmospheres presented on "Filth Pig" had been criticized by journalists and audience, who were expecting something even faster and more violent than "Psalm 69", so, when you start listening to "Supermanic Soul", it seems that the inevitable choice was to start pump again on heavy guitars and breath-taking rhythms. While the aforementioned first track, "Whip And Chain" and the nice but not very exciting single "Bad Blood" try to regain the scepter of the fastest and most violent industrial metal band on Earth, the rest of the CD fortunately parts from this urge, to experiment new unusual solutions. "Nursing Home", for example, is a very strange and noisy instrumental track, with a jazzy rhythm and what sounds like samples of dentist's drills, while the excellent "Kaif", best tune of the album, is a slow, sad song, with heavy drums, sludgy rhythm and Jourgensen's voice expressing some real grief. It's a sign that the band believed in "Filth Pig", and they wanted to continue with what they had started on that underestimated CD. "Vex & Siolence" is the brainchild of Paul Barker, and it sounds much like a Lead Into Gold song, equally slow and introspective. Anyway, all this is definitely not enough to save a CD which sounds weak and not at all convincing. The problem is that we're talking about Ministry, a band that marked history, inventing so much. This is, in the end, a less than average album, recommended just for Ministry maniacs who want to dig every single thing they recorded and discover hidden dark gems amongst their worst production. Personally, however, I prefer listening to this than to the redneck heavy metal of "Rio Grande Blood"...

Sharpbringer

you make excellent points, i was going to write a review but decided i couldn't say it better than youthere was much to praise and i can't quite work out why i didn't like it morethe saxophone and jazz influences were theoretically an awesome idea - maybe a result of AL's appreciation for Kevin Martins Jazz-noise monsters God?when this album was toured the band surprised everyone by playing "we Believe" from 1986's twitchan eclectic open minded gesture that Al has since repudiatedso something creative and experimental was clearly going on with the band around this time..it seemed like an abortive attempt to return to the hyper creative late 80's peak of "land" i'm sad that it didn't quite work and i don't know whyon the positive side, compared to the later descent into straight-ahead metal it stands tall if like me you lost interest after psalm 69 you should give dark side of the spoon a hearing and maybe something will stick, be advised that the excellent 2 singles from this album that made it on to 2001's "greatest fits" best-of album are absolutely not representative of the album as a whole