Filth Pig

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{{Infobox album

| name = Filth Pig

| type = studio

| artist = Ministry

| cover = Filth Pig Ministry.jpg

| alt = A young man holding an American flag with raw meat dripping on his head and a badge on his chest that reads, "Don't blame me."

| released = {{Start date|1996|1|30}}

| recorded = 1994–1995

| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Industrial metal
• sludge metal{{cite web | url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-02-07/lifestyle/9602060379_1_aimee-mann-songs-melrose-place | title=Rants, Rage And Regrets: Ministry - Filth Pig | work=Sun-Sentinel | date=February 7, 1996 | access-date=November 26, 2015 | author=Ruggieri, Melissa | archive-date=December 8, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208012448/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-02-07/lifestyle/9602060379_1_aimee-mann-songs-melrose-place | url-status=dead }}

}}

| length = 54:24

| label = Warner Bros.

| producer = {{flatlist|

• Hypo Luxa
• Hermes Pan

}}

| prev_title = ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ

| prev_year = 1992

| next_title = Dark Side of the Spoon

| next_year = 1999

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Filth Pig

| type = studio

| single1 = The Fall

| single1date = December 1995

| single2 = Lay Lady Lay

| single2date = February 1996

| single3 = Reload

| single3date = July 1996

| single4 = Brick Windows

| single4date = January 1997

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| noprose = yes

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/filth-pig-mw0000179032|title=Filth Pig - Ministry|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|work=AllMusic|publisher=All Media Network|access-date=February 25, 2018}}

|rev2 = Cash Box

|rev2Score = favourable{{Cite magazine|last=Baltin|first=Steve|date=February 10, 1996|title=Ministry: Filth Pig (Warner Bros. 45838-2)|url=https://archive.org/stream/cashbox59unse_18#page/8/mode/2up/search/al+jourgensen|department=Pop Reviews|magazine=Cash Box|volume=LIX|issue=22|page=10|issn=0008-7289|access-date=April 10, 2018|via=Internet Archive}}

| rev3 = Christgau's Consumer Guide

| rev3Score = C{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=ministry|title=CG: Ministry|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=RobertChristgau.com|access-date=November 9, 2012}}

|rev4 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

|rev4score = 5/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=282}}

|rev5= Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev5Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|volume=5|date=1998|edition=3rd|chapter=Ministry|pages=3692–3693|isbn=1561592374|publisher=Muse UK Ltd|via=Internet Archive}}

| rev6 = NME

| rev6Score = 7/10NME (1/27/96, p.43)

| rev7 = Rolling Stone

| rev7Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ministry/albums/album/230090/review/5942626/filth_pig|title=Ministry: Filth Pig : Music Reviews|last=Wiederhorn|first=Jon|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=February 2, 1998|issue=728|publication-date=February 22, 1996|access-date=June 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113154214/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ministry/albums/album/230090/review/5942626/filth_pig|archive-date=January 13, 2009|url-status=dead}}

| rev8 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Ministry|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/544 544-5]}}

| rev9 = Spin

| rev9Score = 6/10{{cite magazine|magazine=Spin|date=February 1996|pages=84–85|department=Spins|last=Norris|first=Chris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=td2yO_T3DPEC&pg=PA84|title=Ministry, Filth Pig, Sire/Warner Bros.|access-date=June 13, 2018|issue=11|volume=11|issn=0886-3032|via=Google Books}}

| rev10 = Wall of Sound

| rev10Score = 79/100{{Cite web |last=Graff |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Graff |date= |title=Wall of Sound Review: Filth Pig |url=http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/reviews/stories/2164_35Index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010415123520/http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/reviews/stories/2164_35Index.html |archive-date=April 15, 2001 |access-date=March 11, 2023 |website=Wall of Sound}}

}}

Filth Pig is the sixth studio album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released on January 30, 1996, by Warner Bros. Records. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, in which the band's leader Al Jourgensen was described as a "filthy pig" for his onstage theatrics by MP Teddy Taylor.{{cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=May 22, 1996|access-date=June 13, 2018|title=The Bloody Pulpit|work=SF Weekly|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-bloody-pulpit/ }}

Despite being the band's highest-charting album in the US, it was negatively received by reviewers,{{cite web |author=Andrew |title=Justify Your Shitty Taste: Ministry's 'Filth Pig' |website=Decibel Magazine |date=January 19, 2011 |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2011/01/19/justify-your-shitty-taste-ministry-s-filth-pig/ |access-date=October 31, 2016}}{{cite news |last=O'Hagar |first=Sammy |title=Album of the Day: Ministry's Filth Pig |website=MetalSucks |date=May 30, 2014 |url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/05/30/album-day-ministrys-filth-pig/ |access-date=October 31, 2016}} sharply divided the band's fanbase, and did not live up to the platinum-selling success of Psalm 69.{{Cite web|url=http://pissarmy.com/viewtopic.php?p=196456|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030550/http://pissarmy.com/viewtopic.php?p=196456|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 28, 2007|title=The Piss Army :: View topic - I come bearing a gift: Ministry's official soundscan numbers|date=September 28, 2007|access-date=March 6, 2020}} Despite poor sales, the album entered several charts, peaking at the highest positions Ministry has ever achieved. This would be the last Ministry album with Mike Scaccia on guitar until 2004's Houses of the Molé.