Filth Pig

Side Effects of Drugs In Music (10 music items)

"Drugs were always a key factor to Ministry and their music. Just go back to their live album. "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up" where Al changed the lyric in Thieves to 'You're like a great big hit of acid, just waiting to be taken'. It's no secret Ministry recorded their best albums high on something, (yes they were on something when they did Psalm 69) but following all the heavy success in 1992, it took 4 years for Ministry to release another album. Al Jourgensen and his heroin addicti"

“This is one release I'll probably never get sick of. I've even sold it and rebought it because I missed it so much. It has four things good going for it. 1) The vocals are awesome. They're clean yet harsh and compliment the music perfectly. 2) The guitar is heavy as hell! 3) The drums are deep and although fairly simple for certain songs they're dialed right in and if you have a good stereo your gonna feel each kick drum. 4) The bass is awesome! It's clear and heavy and it has some of the best bass lines in metal music to this day.

One could say the writting of the music on this album is fairly simple. There's a few tracks on here where the variation doesn't change a whole lot, like Lava, The Fall and Brick Windows, for example, but those happen to be my three favourite tracks o” read more

My First 40 CDs (or, Where I'm Coming From) (50 music items)

"Then: Oddly, I can't remember how I was first introduced to Ministry. It's unlikely that their Bob Dylan cover from this CD is in fact the first song of theirs I ever heard, but it's the one I first clearly remember hearing. Now: It's in the driver side visor of my car right now, actually. "Reload" definitely remains high on the list of "songs that make me want to break things". ;) There's nothing about this picture that doesn't make me break into a devilish smile."