Editing Filth Pig (section)

== Background ==
''Filth Pig'' marked a major shift artistically for the band from their [[Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs|previous album]].  Jourgensen said everyone around him wanted him to continue making music similar to ''Psalm 69''.  However, he wanted to move away from using samples and focus on a slower, heavier sound.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen|last1=Jourgensen|first1=Al|last2=Wiederhorn|first2=Jon|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-30682-218-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour/page/164 164–165]|url=https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour/page/164}}</ref>  Jourgensen rejected any songs that sounded like their previous work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-bloody-pulpit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613160523/https://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-bloody-pulpit/ |archive-date=June 13, 2018 |title=The Bloody Pulpit|author=<!-- Staff -->|work=[[SF Weekly]]|date=May 22, 1996|access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref>  {{quotation|"Everyone hated [''Filth Pig'']. They all wanted ''Psalm 70'', and I gave them an electronic-free record full of gun-in-mouth dirges of nothing but pain. Aside from the cover art, the humour was gone. All that was left was misery. And I still had to tour the fucking thing - which went down in history as the interminable, intolerable, absolutely depraved ''[[Sphinctour]]''."|Al Jourgensen (2013)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jourgensen |first1=Al |last2=Wiederhorn |first2=Jon |year=2013 |title=Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen |url=https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour |url-access=registration |publisher=Da Capo Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour/page/173 173]|isbn=9780306822186 }}</ref>}}

The 2002 live album ''[[Sphinctour]]'' was generally well received by critics.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaluza |first1=David |title=Ministry - Sphinctour (CD) |url=http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/m_2/ministry_-_sphinctour_2.htm |website=Metal Temple |access-date=April 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Mark |title=Ministry - Sphinctour |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2893/reviews/3534- |website=Drowned In Sound |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408070201/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2893/reviews/3534- |url-status=dead }}</ref>