Filth Pig is the sixth studio album by industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 band Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

, released in 1996 on Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament

Palace of Westminster

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, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a filthy pig by MP Teddy Taylor

Teddy Taylor

Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually known as Teddy Taylor , is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative...

. Despite being the band's highest-charting album in the US, it was negatively received by reviewers, sharply divided the band's fanbase, and was a commercial failure. This would be the last Ministry album to be recorded with Mike Scaccia

Mike Scaccia

Michael "Mike" Scaccia is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist for the metal bands Ministry, Rigor Mortis, and The Revolting Cocks.- Professional life :...

 on guitar until the 2004 release of Houses of the Molé

Houses of the Molé

Houses of the Molé is the ninth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry. The album was released on June 21, 2004 internationally and a day later in the United States through Sanctuary Records.-Album information:...

. He did not tour to support Filth Pig.

Track listing

1. "Reload
   Reload (song)
   "Reload" is a song from American industrial metal band Ministry. The song was the third single from the band's 1996 album Filth Pig. The single was unsuccessful and failed to reach a position on any chart. There was a video released for the song....
   
   " – 2:25 (Jourgensen, Barker)
2. "Filth Pig" – 6:19 (Jourgensen, Barker)
3. "Lava" – 6:30 (Jourgensen, Barker)
4. "Crumbs" – 4:15 (Jourgensen, Barker, Scaccia, Svitek, Washam)
5. "Useless" – 5:55 (Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Scaccia)
6. "Dead Guy" – 5:14 (Jourgensen, Barker, Washam)
7. "Game Show" – 7:45 (Jourgensen, Barker, Scaccia, Svitek, Washam)
8. "The Fall" – 4:54 (Jourgensen, Balch)
9. "Lay, Lady, Lay" – 5:44 (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
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    cover)
10. "Brick Windows" – 5:23 (Jourgensen, Barker)

Ministry

• Al Jourgensen
  Al Jourgensen
  Alain David Jourgensen , is a Cuban-American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa , Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan...
  
   – vocals (1-4, 6-10), guitar
  Guitar
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , mandolin
  Mandolin
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   (1), harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
   (2), pedal steel
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
   (9), piano
  Piano
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   (8), production
  Record producer
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• Paul Barker
  Paul Barker
  Paul Barker , also referred to as Hermes Pan, is the former bass guitarist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals (5), programming, production

Additional personnel

• Rey Washam
  Rey Washam
  Rey Washam is a drummer who has been performing for more than 20 years. He has collaborated with many bands, the most notable of which include: Scratch Acid, Rapeman, Ministry, the Big Boys, Helios Creed, the Didjits, Lard, and Tad and Butthole Surfers offshoot Daddy Longhead...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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   (4, 6, 7, 9)
• Louis Svitek
  Louis Svitek
  Louis Svitek is a musician and former guitarist for a number of bands including M.O.D., Ministry, Pigface, Mind Funk, The Hollow steps and Project .44...
  
   – guitars
• William Rieflin
  William Rieflin
  William "Bill" Rieflin is an American musician.In the past, Reiflin has worked with many notable groups in the industrial rock, experimental metal and related genres, including Ministry, the Revolting Cocks, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., and many others...
  
   – drums (1-3, 5)
• Mike Scaccia
  Mike Scaccia
  Michael "Mike" Scaccia is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist for the metal bands Ministry, Rigor Mortis, and The Revolting Cocks.- Professional life :...
  
   – guitars
• Esther Nevarez – backing vocals (5)
• Stella Katsoudas – backing vocals (5)
• Duane Buford – programming (uncredited)
• Michael Balch – programming (8, uncredited)
• Zlatko Hukic – engineer
• Brad Kopplin – engineer
• Bill Garcelon – assistant engineer
• Jamie Duffy – assistant engineer
• Matt Gibson – assistant engineer
• Ed Tinley – assistant engineer
• Whitney O'Keefe – assistant engineer
• Paul Elledge – art & design

Chart positions

Album

Chart (1996)	Peak position
The Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	19
Australian Albums Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	9
Austrian Albums Chart Ö3 Austria Top 40 Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the name of the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Fridays on Hitradio Ö3. The show presents the Austrian singles, ringtones and downloads chart. It premiered on 26 November 1968 as Disc Parade and was presented by Ernst Grissemann...	47
Finnish Albums Chart	17
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	28
New Zealand Albums Chart Recording Industry Association of New Zealand The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand...	16
Norwegian Albums Chart VG-lista VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...	38
Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	7
Swiss Albums Chart Swiss Music Charts The Swiss Music Charts are Switzerland's main music sales charts. The charts are a record of the highest-selling singles and albums in various genres in Switzerland.The Swiss Charts include:* Singles Top 75...	50
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	43

Singles

Year	Song	US Dance Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	SWE	UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
1995	"The Fall"	18	46	53
1996	"Lay Lady Lay"	—	—	128