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On FILTH PIG, industrial progenitors Ministry eschew 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 TASTE. FILTH PIG opts for a still ferocious, but tighter, plodding, more death-metal sound, recorded in real time with a preponderance of guitar and bass. On this release, Al Jourgensen's satanic vocals ride atop a heavy, distorted and booming rhythm section evoking White Zombie or Black Sabbath, as songs like "Lava," "Filth Pig" and "Crumb" viscerallly inspire head banging. Credit them for pushing their own musical envelope with an interpretation of Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" featuring lap steel and strummy acoustic guitar (worth the price of admission alone just to hear Jourgensen belt out "I long to see you in the morning/I long to reach for you all night"). In the same vein, check out "The Fall," with its cascading piano line. A great album to piss your parents off with.
Live Recording
Ministry: A. Jourgensen, P. Barker.
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..."
Melody Maker (1/27/96, p.34) - "...smackhead nihilism...delivered in the familiar Dalek-gargling-on-a-glass-splinter-Slush-Puppy vocals....A record to admire rather than love. Unless you're into pain."
Musician (4/96, p.92) - "...what makes this Ministry album seem heavier than metal is this lumbering, animal menace of the rhythm section....Ministry adds a measure of humanity to the music without ever compromising its in-your-face aggression..."
New York Times (Publisher) (2/25/96, Sec.2, p.34) - "...On FILTH PIG, Ministry turns into a ponderous heavy-metal band on the order of Slayer, playing dense, sinister, bottom-heavy songs..."
NME (Magazine) (1/27/96, p.43) - 7 (out of 10) - "...toe-shatteringly fierce industrial stompings and grinding riffs of the teeth-gritting variety. Oh, and they don't mind shoving the `harm' into `harmonica' now and again....resembles Led Zeppelin's `Kashmir' being battered about in a blender..." Purchase Filth Pig CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Ministry Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste CD (1989)
Filth Pig
 $6.25  
For its second major-label album (following THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY), Ministry combined elements of industrial, punk rock, heavy metal, and hard-beat techno. In doing so, the band forged the mold copied by countless other American bands--from Nine Inch Nails to Marilyn Manson.
MIND opens with the one-two punch of "Thieves" and "Burning Inside." The first features a whip-fast chorus, punctuated by samples of the drill-like sound of an automatically rewinding camera, that sets off the obsessive anger of the verses. In the second, vocalist Al Jourgensen's slightly phased vocals cut across razor-sharp bursts of guitar and a massive drum sound. Both songs are fast, aggressive, and quite brilliant. "Cannibal Song" and "So What" sound like super-heavy outtakes from Public Image Limited's METAL BOX / SECOND EDITION. "Test" almost falls into the ...
| | Ministry In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up CD (1990)
Filth Pig
$6.09 
By the time of A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Ministry had amassed enough of an arsenal of gear and a hardcore coterie of fans to make the band's shows literally explosive affairs in some cases. Also released as an accompanying video, which shows more than a few audience members seemingly uncaring about potential dismemberment, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up is only six songs long, but delivers big time for each of them. The weird atmosphere of glowering goth and avant thrash metal that combined with the more direct dancefloor antics of Alain Jourgensen, Paul Barker, and company makes for a particularly potent combination live. Jourgensen's hoarsely roared, wracked vocals, given just enough electronic distortion to really cause some blood to flow, suit the various reinterpretations of The Land of Rape and Honey and A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste material, three songs from each. For the most part the live takes closely resemble the studio cuts aside from length; while the galloping "Deity" sticks to the original's three-minute headcrush, "So What" turns into an extended vamp, arguably going on a little too long but generally having fun with its own horror-movie slasher theatrics, as well as kicking off with a slow burn, just creepy enough start. The whooshing swoops and siren noises that kick off "Burning Inside" show how well Ministry can rework material for maximum impact as needed. The end of the disc provides the real highlights, with absolutely brutal versions ...
| | Ministry Psalm 69 CD (1992)
Filth Pig
$9.95
The increasingly heavy sound of Ministry hit its peak in the form of 1992's PSALM 69. Though the industrial band had it roots in dance-pop, frontman Al Jourgensen led the band in a progressively guitar-laden direction beginning in the late '80s, and essentially disowned his more accessible earlier recordings.
Ministry's dedication to loud, aggressive music is fully on display here with the lumbering opener "N.W.O.," a politically charged track that takes the first Bush administration to task amidst a barrage of rumbling bass, propulsive beats, crushing guitar riffs, and Jourgensen's trademark distorted vocals. Released as a single before the album itself, the rambunctious "Jesus Built My Hotrod" proved to be another highlight, with Butthole Surfers vocalist Gibby Haynes sitting in on a session of high-octane absurdity. Throughout PSALM 69, the sonic ferocity is relentless, whether on the break-neck ...
| | Ministry Dark Side Of The Spoon CD (1999)
Filth Pig
$11.19 
DARK SIDE OF THE SPOON opens with Al Jourgensen screaming "I just shot a man to death" over grinding guitar riffs and an unrelenting, martial beat. Clearly, these godfathers of industrial rock show no signs of mellowing as they near their third decade of sonic terrorism. Longtime fans can rest easy, there are no attempts at mainstream crossover here--no string sections or sentimental ballads.
True to form, Ministry delivers cut after cut of manic alienation. The savage, repetitive guitar patterns consolidate hard rock, punk and heavy metal into a new, uncompromising paradigm. Jourgensen revels in his angst, using it as a cathartic tool ...
| | Ministry Land Of Rape And Honey CD (1988)
Filth Pig
$11.19
The Land of Rape and Honey represented Ministry's stylistic breakthrough, combining assaultive percussion, samples, synths, and (sometimes) crunching guitars with distorted, barking vocals. For all the emphasis on the group's metal/industrial fusion, it's really only the first three (and best) tracks on Rape and Honey -- "Stigmata," "The Missing," and "Deity" -- that employ guitars extensively. The remainder of the album merely suggests heavy metal aggression through its electronic and sampled ...
| | Ministry Houses Of The Mole CD (2004)
Filth Pig
$9.99
In a striking return to form, Ministry revisits the sound that it honed to a dangerously sharp edge on 1992's PSALM 69 with 2004's HOUSES OF THE MOLE. While the former album sampled the senior George Bush on the blistering "N.W.O," MOLE (actually printed with an accent over the "e" to rhyme with "holy") uses sound clips of ...
| | God Dethroned Bloody Blasphemy CD (1999)
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| | Opiate Sometimes CD (2005) Extended Play
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| | Ritual Live CD (2006) (Import) Import
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2 CD set. SPV. 2005.
| | Cornerstone Roots Soul Revolution CD (2004) (Import)
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| | Endlich Wieder Rosenzeit CD (2007) (Import)
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| | Kristy Bassett Something New CD (2007)
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$13.15
Though “Something New” is the first solo album in Kristy Bassett’s career don’t let that fool you. Kristy has been actively involved in music since first picking up a guitar at 11. For four years when she was a teen-ager Kristy played locally every weekend with a gospel group from her home state, Wisconsin. Her first big break came when she was asked to join a group from the mid-west full-time. For six years Kristy honed her guitar and mandolin skills on the road constantly touring, and making appearances on television in the U.S. and Canada. When the time came for her ...
| | Hollowell Are You Waiting-EP CD (2008)
Filth Pig
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