After I bought Filth Pig Al Jourgensen was dead to me.
I won't even go stream this unless i hear some very good things
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Very few bands have committed commercial suicide quite as stylishly as Ministry did with this album. This was the follow up to their most commercially successful album Psalm 69, released in 1992. With 4 year wait between albums as Front man Al Jorgensen put it at this time he was living of DST (Dealer Central Time) which is about 6 months after everyone else, this and the fact the album was totally different to the metally Psalm 69.
On top of that their openness about the drug usage within the band, in the wake of Kurt Cobains death admitting to using Heroin was a very bad thing. Also if we look at the musical climate at the time with Britt Pop at its peak, you have to admit that a dark heavy and uncompromising Album was not going to get rave reviews. Even the heavy metal press slated it, but what do music journalists know about music anyway.
The final factor in this albums unpopularity was that it was not Psalm 70. Psalm 69 had been a great critical success and had significantly widened their fan base, but Ministry did not want to make an album that sounded identical to it. So ultra fast speed / thrash metal guitars were out.
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