Rather than the trademark bone-munching industrial metal of later years, With Sympathy is panto-goth new wave synth-pop that sounds less like the band chewing your pancreas...
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By the time of A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Ministry had amassed enough of an arsenal of gear and a hardcore coterie of fans to make the band's shows literally...
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Al Jourgensen and his cohorts get loud and heavy with this single about the love of drag racing and hot-rod cars. The title track features vocals from the Butthole Surfers'...
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"Smash the control images; smash the control machine," Ministry's warped vision coalesced on the definitive Psalm 69. One of the many high points of that barbed record is...
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Easily one of the most anticipated albums from that year, especially after Nine Inch Nails had helped bring industrial metal to the mainstream with the success of the...
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In what many consider to be Ministry's peak, the band creates another wonderful album to follow The Land of Rape and Honey. Fusing thrash guitars with excellent synth and...
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The Land of Rape and Honey represented Ministry's stylistic breakthrough, combining assaultive percussion, samples, synths, and (sometimes) crunching guitars with distorted,...
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The name Ministry brings to mind images of big, dumb guitars and arena rock sensibility. But before they created their influential third album, The Land of Rape and Honey,...
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Each new Ministry album is an exercise in stress-testing the listener, generating a sonic bombardment that grinds through the outer protective layers and churns up whatever...
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How many bands can claim to have turned Bob Dylan's weepy "Lay Lady Lay" into a raucous stadium anthem? Ministry can. With albums like Psalm 69 and Filth Pig, this...
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Dark Side of the Spoon is Ministry's attempt to return to its techno and industrial roots (missing from their previous effort, Filth Pig), as well as its penchant for dark...
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It has often been said that Ministry, more than anyone, made industrial music safe for headbangers. Thanks to Al Jourgensen and his Chicago colleagues, many Iron Maiden,...
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Ministry strode the alternative music world like a colossus during the late '80s and early '90s, placing one huge foot in the domain of industrial music, then another in the...
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Released in 2003, Animositisomina might've brought Ministry back from the dead, but it's Houses of the Molé that fully resurrects everyone's favorite ghoul. Guv-hating Al...
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You can almost see Ministry straining against releasing a compilation, not just because it's called Greatest Fits but because they're not featured on the front and obscured...
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Back when EPs were all the rage and Wax Trax were defining industrial dance music, Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen got to release any whim or half-baked idea he had and, boy,...
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