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Chicago, United States (1981 – 2008)

Ministry popularized industrial-metal by 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).

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intoTHEvoid wrote:
yesterday evening

Ministry is all about the hair. *FUCKING SIGH*

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akerbeltz wrote:
yesterday evening

great band

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Jongusmoe wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Al's hair was so cool in the Over The Shoulder video!

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Haru-Yami wrote:
Sunday evening

naa solo me gusta ese album es mi favorito amo ese album del 83 !! los demas ya no me gustan !

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areyoumorbid wrote:
Sunday morning

y apartir del houses of the molé ministry cambió mucho su sonido también, un sonido mas thrasheron y pesado que igual me gusta mucho, pero yo me quedo con ministry del 88 hasta el animositisomina, mucha creatividad!...

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areyoumorbid wrote:
Sunday morning

pues la verdad si cambiaron mucho, pero aun asi fue un cambio impresionante, innovaron el sonido que traian de los ochentas (synth pop, etc) y lo mezclaron con la agresividad del heavy metal, thrash, punk, etc.

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Haru-Yami wrote:
Saturday morning

me ekivoke escribi am xD era with simphaty

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Haru-Yami wrote:
Saturday morning

solo me gusta su album with simphsty el uniko ! nada mas me encanta ese album no puedo creer kmo hallan kambiado tanto u.u

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Freekdaddy wrote:
Wednesday evening

I saw them on the C U Latour ...AWESOME!!

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SavageHippy123 wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

@Peti14 - fail

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loudecibels wrote:
last week

Nothing beats the Land of Rape and Honey and Psalm 69 albums. Incredible.

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Peti14 wrote:
9 days ago

Houses Of The Mole' is their best album .[666]

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max_hf wrote:
10 days ago

Everything after Filth Pig is pretty meh [2]

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Pinkbat wrote:
10 days ago

i endorse these posts

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malodorouss wrote:
11 days ago

Nice band, unfortunately they split-up ;(

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hmiettinen wrote:
12 days ago

Dark Side is a good album. Very dark and droning. You can tell Al was a complete wreck back then and the end product kicks ass. They lost their touch after Animositisomina, the following albums are basically terrible thrash metal with hackneyed, lowbrow political messages.

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TucoRamirez666 wrote:
15 days ago

I never really liked Filth pig or dark side too much, Animosity was the last good Ministry album imo. The bush albums make me feel sick...I wanna hear Ministry be Ministry, not Slayer.

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Serfiel wrote:
15 days ago

YES!

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COBRARocky wrote:
15 days ago

Everything after Filth Pig is pretty meh

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DesireeGomez wrote:
17 days ago

I'm glad some of u are well aware that the smack shit doomed Jourgensen. I still love Ministry regardless.

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