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With Sympathy


Album: ''With Sympathy'' (1983)
1. Effigy (I'm Not An)
2. Revenge
3. I Wanted to Tell Her
4. Work For Love
5. Here We Go
6. What He Say
7. Say You're Sorry
8. Should Have Known Better
9. She's Got A Cause




Twelve Inch Singles (1981-1984)


Album: ''Twelve Inch Singles (1981-1984)'' (1985 Best of/Compilation)
1. (Everyday Is) Halloween
2. The Nature of Love
3. All Day
4. Cold Life
5. Halloween (Remix)
6. Nature of Live (Cruelty mix B)
7. All Day (Remix B)
8. Cold Life (Dub)




Twitch


Album: ''Twitch'' (1986)
1. Just Like You
2. We Believe
3. All Day
4. The Angel
5. Over the Shoulder
6. My Possession
7. Where You At Now?/Crash & Burn/Twitch (Version II)




The Land of Rape and Honey


Album: ''The Land of Rape and Honey'' (1988)
1. Stigmata
2. The Missing
3. Deity
4. Golden Dawn
5. Destruction
6. The Land of Rape and Honey
7. You Know What You Are
8. Flashback
9. Abortive




The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste


Album: ''The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste'' (1989)
1. Thieves
2. Burning Inside
3. Never Believe
4. Cannibal Song
5. Breathe
6. So What
7. Test
8. Faith Collapsing
9. Dream Song*




In Case You Didn


Album: ''In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up'' (1990 Live album)
1. The Missing
2. Deity
3. So What
4. Burning Inside
5. Thieves
6. Stigmata




Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs


Album: ''Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs'' (1992)
1. N.W.O.
2. Just One Fix
3. TV II
4. Hero
5. Jesus Built My Hotrod
6. Scarecrow
7. Psalm 69
8. Corrosion
9. Grace




Filth Pig


Album: ''Filth Pig'' (1996)
1. Reload
2. Filth Pig
3. Lava
4. Crumbs
5. Useless
6. Dead Guy
7. Game Show
8. The Fall
9. Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan cover)
10. Brick Windows




Greatest Fits


Album: ''Greatest Fits'' (2001 Best of/Compilation)
1. What About Us?
2. Stigmata
3. The Land of Rape and Honey
4. Thieves
5. So What - (Live Version)
6. N.W.O.
7. Just One Fix
8. Jesus Built My Hotrod
9. Reload - (12" version)
10. Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan cover)
11. Supermanic Soul
12. Bad Blood
13. Supernaut (Black Sabbath cover)




Animositisomina


Album: ''Animositisomina'' (2003)
1. Animosity
2. Unsung
3. Piss
4. Lockbox
5. Broken
6. The Light Pours Out of Me
7. Shove
8. Impossible
9. Stolen
10. Leper




Houses of the Molé


Album: ''Houses of the Molé'' (2004)
1. No W
2. Waiting
3. Worthless
4. Wrong
5. Warp City
6. WTV
7. World
8. WKYJ
9. Worm




Rantology


Album: ''Rantology'' (2005 Best of/Compilation)
1. No "W" (Redux)
2. The Great Satan
3. Wrong (Update Mix)
4. N.W.O. (Update Mix)
5. Stigmata (Update Mix)
6. Waiting
7. Warp City (Alternate Mix)
8. Jesus Built My Hotrod (Alternate Mix)
9. Bad Blood (Alternate Mix)
10. Animosity
11. Unsung (Alternate Mix)
12. Bloodlines
13. Psalm 69 (Live)
14. Thieves (Live)
15. The Fall (Live)




Rio Grande Blood


Album: ''Rio Grande Blood'' (2006)
1. Rio Grande Blood
2. Señor Peligro
3. Gangreen
4. Fear (Is Big Business)
5. Lieslieslies
6. The Great Satan (Remix)
7. Yellow Cake
8. Palestina
9. Ass Clown
10. Khyber Pass
11. Untitled Bonus Track



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MINISTRY BIOGRAPHY

Latest News:

Paul Raven, Ministry's bassist has suffered from a heart attack and has passed away on October 20'th of 2007.

Ministry did more than any other band to popularize industrial-metal, injecting large doses of punky, over-the-top aggression and roaring heavy metal guitar riffs that helped their music find favor with metal and alternative audiences outside of industrial's cult fan base. That's not to say Ministry had a commercial or generally accessible sound: they were unremittingly intense, abrasive, pounding, and repetitive, and not always guitar-oriented (samples, synthesizers, and tape effects were a primary focus just as often as guitars and distorted vocals). However, both live and in the studio, they achieved a huge, crushing sound that put most of their contemporaries in aggressive musical genres to shame; plus, founder and frontman Al Jourgensen gave the group a greater aura of style and theater than other industrial bands, who seemed rather faceless when compared with Jourgensen's leather-clad cowboy/biker look and the edgy shock tactics of such videos as N.W.O., Jesus Built My Hotrod and Just One Fix. After 1992's Psalm 69, which represented the peak of their popularity, Ministry's recorded output dwindled, partially because of myriad side projects and partially due to heroin abuse within the band, but continued to resurface through the rest of the decade.

Ministry was formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1981 by Alain Jourgensen (born Oct. 8, 1958, Havana, Cuba); he had moved to the U.S. with his mother while very young and lived in a succession of cities, eventually working as a radio DJ and joining a new wave band called Special Affect (fronted by future My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult leader Frankie Nardiello, aka Groovie Mann). Featuring drummer Stephen George, Ministry debuted with the Wax Trax! single Cold Life, which -- typical of their early output -- was more in the synth pop/dance style of new wavers like the The Human League or Thompson Twins. The album With Sympathy appeared on the major label Arista in 1983 and followed a similar musical direction, one that Jourgensen was dissatisfied with; he returned to Wax Trax! and recorded several singles while rethinking the band's style and forming his notorious side project the Revolting Cocks.

In 1985, with Jourgensen the only official member of Ministry, the Adrian Sherwood-produced Twitch was released by Sire Records; while not as aggressive as the group's later, more popular material, it found Jourgensen taking definite steps in that direction. Following a 1987 single with Skinny Puppy's Kevin Ogilvie (aka nivek ogre) as PTP, Jourgensen once again revamped Ministry, with former Blackouts bassist Paul Barker officially joining the lineup to complement Jourgensen's rediscovery of the guitar; fellow ex-Blackouts William Rieflin (drums) and Mike Scaccia (guitar), as well as vocalist Chris Connelly, were heavily showcased as collaborators for the first of several times on 1988's The Land of Rape and Honey. With Jourgensen and Barker credited as Hypo Luxa and Hermes Pan, respectively, this album proved to be Ministry's stylistic breakthrough, a taut, explosive fusion of heavy metal, industrial dance beats and samples, and punk aggression. 1989's The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste built on its predecessor's artistic success, and In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up was recorded on its supporting tour, introducing other frequent Ministry contributors like drummer Martin Atkins (ex-Public Image Ltd., later of Pigface) and guitarist William Tucker (as well as featuring a guest shot from Jello Biafra). Jourgensen next embarked on a flurry of side projects, including the aforementioned Revolting Cocks (with Barker, Barker's brother Roland, Front 242 members Luc van Acker and Richard 23, and many more), 1000 Homo DJs (with Biafra, Rieflin, and Trent Reznor), Acid Horse (a collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire), Pailhead (with Ian MacKaye), and Lard (again with Biafra, Paul Barker and Bill Rieflin).

In late 1991, Ministry issued the single Jesus Built My Hotrod, a driving rocker featuring manic nonsense vocals by co-writer Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers; its exposure on MTV helped build anticipation for the following year's full-length Psalm 69 (subtitled The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs, although the only title that appears on the album consists of a few Greek letters and symbols). The record reached the Top 30 and went platinum, producing two further MTV hits with N.W.O. and Just One Fix, and Ministry consolidated its following with a spot on the second Lollapalooza tour that summer (joined by new guitarist Louis Svitek). However, drug and legal problems sidelined the band in the wake of its newfound popularity, resulting in the clouded Filth Pig being released in 1995, too late to capitalize on their prior success. More problems with drugs and arrests followed, and Jourgensen returned to some of his side projects, recording a new album with Lard, among others. In 1999, the new single Bad Blood was featured prominently in the sci-fi special-effects blockbuster film The Matrix, setting the stage for the release of Dark Side of the Spoon (the title a reference to the band's heroin problems) later that summer. Guitarist William Tucker committed suicide in May 1999. The band was nominated for a Grammy in 2000 for "Bad Blood," but they lost to Black Sabbath and were dropped from Warner Bros. around the same time. They were also added to the Ozzfest tour, but they were kicked off before it even began because of a management change. To compound their sorrows, Ipecac Records announced three live albums to be released with material from the Psalm 69 tour being the main focus, but they only had a verbal agreement and when Warner Bros. caught wind of the project they stamped it out despite already having the CDs ready for printing. In 2001, the band filmed a scene for Steven Spielberg's A.I. and released the song from the film on a greatest-hits album, appropriately titled Greatest Fits. The song received a decent amount of promotion, but the single went nowhere and the group signed to Sanctuary Records later in the year. While recording new material, they released the Sphinctour album and DVD in the spring of 2002 to satisfy rabid fans who were disappointed by the Ipecac situation. The next spring, Animositisomina was released, advertised as a return to the Psalm 69 style of songwriting and featuring a cover of Magazine's The Light Pours Out of Me. Houses Of The Molé followed in June 2004. In September 2005 Ministry celebrated their 25th anniversary with Rantology. Jourgensen remixed such past hits as "Jesus Built My Hotrod" and "N.W.O. for the set; it also included live material, rarities, and the new track Great Satan. An extensive tour with Revolting Cocks in tow followed.

In 2007, after nearly three decades, nearly a dozen studio albums, and four Grammy nominations, Ministry released its final studio album, The Last Sucker. The third in an uber-critical trilogy aimed at exposing the foils, failures and fabrications perpetrated by the George W. Bush Administration, The Last Sucker follows 2004’s Houses Of The Molé and last year’s Rio Grande Blood. Ministry will embark on its final world tour in the Spring of 2008 – the “C U LaTour.â€

MINISTRY GENRES
New wave (early), Industrial/Electronic (mid-80's), Industrial Rock/Metal (today)

MINISTRY LYRICAL THEMES
Love (early), politics, drugs, religion (newer)

MINISTRY ORIGIN
United States of America (Chicago, IL (now in El Paso, Texas)), formed in 1981

MINISTRY CURRENT RECORD LABEL
13th Planet

MINISTRY STATUS
Active

MINISTRY CURRENT LINE-UP
Alain ``Alien`` Jourgensen - Vocals, Guitars, Programming (Revolting Cocks, ex-Special Affect, ex-Pailhead, ex-Lard, ex-PTP, Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters, ex-1000 Homo DJ's, ex-Acid Horse)
Mike Scaccia - Guitar (1989-1993, 2003-) (Rigor Mortis (US), ex-Revolting Cocks, ex-Blohole)
Eddy Garcia - Bass (Sep. 2004-)
Tommy Victor - Guitar (Feb. 2006-) (Prong, ex-Danzig)
Sin Quirin - Guitars
John Bechdel - Keyboard (Front Line Assembly, Killing Joke, Fear Factory, Ascension of the Watchers, Prong)

MINISTRY PREVIOUS LINE-UP
Vocals:
Kevin Ogilvie (keyboards; tours of 1988 and 1990)

Guitar:
Chris Connelly (also various songwriting credits; 1988-1990) (Revolting Cocks, Murder Inc., PTP)
Terry ``Tezz`` Roberts (tour in 1990) (U.K. Subs, Broken Bones, Discharge, Agnostic Front, Lard, Murphy's Law, Battalion of Saints)
William Tucker (tour in 1990) (R.I.P.)
Louis Svitek (1992-2003) (MindFunk, Zoetrope, M.O.D., Mayhem Inc.)
Adam Grossman (2003) (Skrew, ex-Angkor Wat)
Bryan Kehoe (May 2004-Sep. 2004)
Rick Valles (Sep. 2004-2006)

Bass:
Lamont Welton (1981)
Marty Sorenson (1981-1982)
Brad Hallen (1982-1986)
Paul Barker (also keyboards, programming, voices; 1986-Aug. 2003) (Revolting Cocks, PTP, Lard)
John Monte (Jan. 2004-Sep. 2004) (MindFunk, M.O.D.)
Martin Aktins (Murder Inc., Pigface, Revolting Cocks, PTP)
Paul Vincent Raven (2006-2007) (Killing Joke, Godflesh, Prong, Pigface, Murder Inc., Smartyr, Mob Research, Zilch) (R.I.P. 20/10/07, heart attack)

Drums:
Stephen George (1981-1984)
Bill Rieflin (also programming; 1986-Feb. 1995)
Rey Washam (also percussion, programming; 1995-1999, 2003)
Tia Sprockett (tour of 2003)
Max Brody (also percussion, programming, saxophone; 2003-2004)
Joey Jordison (Feb. 2006-July 2007) (Slipknot, Murderdolls, Modifidious, ex-Anal Blast, Pigface, session for Satyricon, live for Korn)

Keyboard:
Paul Taylor (1980-1981)
John Davis (1981-1983)
Robert Roberts (live, 1981-1983)
Mark Pothier (1982-1983)
Doug Chamberlin (Oct. 1983-Oct. 1984)
Patty Jourgensen (also voices; 1983-1986)
Roland Barker (also saxophone; tours of 1986 and 1992-1993)
Michael Balch (also programming; 1991-1993)
Kol Marshall (2003-Mar. 2004)
Darrell James (tours in 2003 and 2004)

 


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