Nearly four years after the unexpected big success of Psalm 69, platinum in America, Ministry is back on the industrial front. The standard bearer of industrial metal (sampled drums, rock-hard pulsating rhythms, cutting guitar violence and all this with the help of a large battery of electronics) has taken a step back in extremity with Filth Pig. Mostly played mid-tempo and often played with real
… instruments, so that it sounds much less 'industrial'. The songs now also come across more as songs and not as runaway, derailed trains that are about to explode. Striking is the Bob Dylan cover of Lay Lady Lay and perhaps even more striking is that the song fits exactly in the somewhat 'quiet' character of Filth Pig.more
