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Adios... [LIVE]

Adios... [LIVE]
	Progenies of thumping, seminal industrial metal whose legacy can still be heard ringing loudly in everything from Rammstein to Red Harvest. It's hard to believe that this is their swansong, their last album release, and indeed Ministry go out in style tonight with this album! When Ministry pulls out the big guns it is tantamount to a revelation. The world needs bands like Ministry to be a razor sharp thorn in the side of conservatism, and one of the few bands who truly exuded the kind of punk ethic that's bandied about by so many but actually lived by so few! Good bye Ministry!

The Wicked Soundtrack by Al Jourgensen

The Wicked Soundtrack by Al Jourgensen
	After a college art class in which students are required to draw a nude model, ILENE (Robin Sydney), encounters one of the students, a young man named CALEB (Marc Senter), who starts to awkwardly chat and walk her home. On the way, Caleb makes bizarre small talk, culminating in a bizarre goodbye on her front steps in which Caleb makes a strange request. Ilene complies and Caleb runs off. At home, Ilene lives with her three super hot roommates: HELEN (Eryn Joslyn), pretty, with a hint of retro cool sophistication, MARY (Carlee Baker), prim and curvy and JILL (Eve Mauro), freewheeling and raunchy.

Cover Up

Cover Up
	Cover Up was Ministry's final release. Cover Up is a cover album where Ministry plays songs by bands like The Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top and many other groups. The song "Under My Thumb" was nominated on Dec. 3, 2008 for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.

The Last Sucker

The Last Sucker
	The Last Sucker is the third and final part of Ministry’s anti-George W. Bush trilogy, also including 2004’s Houses of the Molé and 2006’s Rio Grande Blood. It is Ministry’s eleventh studio album, released on September 18, 2007. According to a May 2006 interview with mainman Al Jourgensen, it is also the band’s last studio release of original material.

Rio Grande Dub(ya)

Rio Grande Dub(ya)
	Rio Grande DUB Ya is a remix of Ministry's 2006 album Rio Grande Blood. Clayton Worbeck remixed all of the tracks except "Fear Is Big Business (Weapons of Mass Deception Mix)" which was remixed by John Bechdel.

Rio Grande Blood

Rio Grande Blood
	Rio Grande Blood, the 2nd part of Ministry’s Anti George W. Bush Trilogy (Also Including, 2004’s Houses of the Molé and 2007’s The Last Sucker), is Ministry’s tenth studio album. It was released on May 2, 2006.

Houses of the MolÃ©

Houses of the MolÃ©
	Houses of the Molé, the 1st part of Ministry’s Anti George W. Bush Trilogy (Also Including, 2006’s Rio Grande Blood and 2007’s The Last Sucker ) is the ninth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry. All songs start or contain the letter “W” in their title. The album was released on June 21, 2004 internationally and a day later in the United States through Sanctuary.

Animositisomina

Animositisomina
	Animositisomina is an album by Ministry, released on February 17, 2003. The title is a palindrome, made of the word “animosity” spelled without the final letter and both forwards and backwards. It is also very similar to Aoxomoxoa, which is an album by the Grateful Dead. According to an interview on Fuse’s Uranium, Jourgensen was bored at the time he was coming up with an album title.

Dark Side of the Spoon

Dark Side of the Spoon
	Dark Side of the Spoon is an album by Ministry, released on June 8, 1999. There are two theories behind the title, the first being a play on words, it is easily noticed as a parody of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. The second is a reference to the blackened or dark side of a spoon when heated to dissolve heroin, as the band suffered from addiction of said substance at the time. “Bad Blood” was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 2000.

Filth Pig

Filth Pig
	Filth Pig is an album by the industrial band Ministry. The album was released on January 30, 1996 on the Warner Brothers Music label. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a “filthy pig” by one of the MPs. The album boasts a slower, heavier style, almost akin to Doom Metal, and sounds much like Godflesh, who Jourgensen has cited as a major influence. Despite being Ministry’s highest charting album in the US, it was negatively recieved by both fans and reviewers, sharply divided the band’s fanbase, and was a commercial failure.

Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs

Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs
	Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs is an album by the band Ministry. It was released in 1992 through Sire Records. The actual title of the album is ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΞΘ (a Greek word roughly pronounced as “ke-fa-lay,” meaning “head” or “leader”, and the number 69 in Greek numerals), though Psalm 69 is used for simplicity’s sake.

The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
	he Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste is an album by the band Ministry. The album was released in 1989 through Sire/Warner Music. The music took a more hardcore, guitar-driven direction, and, along with The Land of Rape and Honey, is considered by many to be the defining aspect of Ministry’s sound. It deploys a cathartic blend of electronic energy with metallic aggression. The songs’ themes dealt with such issues as political corruption (”Thieves”); cultural violence (”So What”); environmental wreck and nuclear war (”Breathe”); drug addiction (”Burning Inside”) and insanity (”Cannibal Song”). Limp Bizkit have been known to cover the song “Thieves” at their live shows.

The Land of Rape and Honey

The Land of Rape and Honey
	The Land of Rape and Honey is an album by the industrial metal band Ministry. The album was released in 1988 through Sire Records. The image on the cover appears to be an electronically-processed version of a photo of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla sub-camp of Buchenwald.

Twitch

Twitch
	The album features a mix of new wave, synth pop, industrial and electronica influences. The album also strongly features Al Jourgensen’s (left wing) political and personal opinions, as do many other Ministry albums. Released under the Sire label, Jourgensen was granted more artistic contol over the production than under Arista. Twitch was re-released in 1990 with two additional tracks. ‘Twitched’, an unauthorised 2003 release by Radioactive Records, is a remastered version of Twitch, featuring the track listing that the band is said to have intended it to have before the intervention of the record company. It includes previously unreleased alternative versions of tracks from Twitch.

With Sympathy

With Sympathy
	With Sympathy was the first album released by Ministry. It was was released on May 10, 1983 through Arista, Ministry’s band mambers at the time were Alain Jourgensen and Stephen George. Jourgensen was supposedly pressured into making the album with “synth pop” style by Arista management, and it is in contrast to the harder sound he played as his career progressed. However there are several reports of Jourgensen saying in the eighties how he discovered “hardcore”, which changed his musical direction, and became ashamed of putting out a “synth-pop” album. Jourgensen assumes a false British accent for all of the songs. This album was also released as Work for Love under BMG in Europe (with the same cover). There is a nysuc video available for “Revenge”, which was one of three singles pulled from the album, the others were “Work for Love” and “I Wanted to Tell Her”.

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Ministry

Ministry, an American influential Grammy-nominated industrial metal group founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981.

Ministry was originally a synthpop group but changed its style to industrial metal in the late 80s. During the early 90s, Ministry found mainstream success with their album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs (1992). Al decided to retire Ministry in 2008 after 27 years of performing.

For a more detailed biography of the band, please visit the BIO.