Biography

Though Chicago's Ministry is known as the archetypal industrial rock band, they actually started out as a dour synth-funk outfit before founder Alain Jourgensen really ratcheted up the noise and the gloom on 1988's THE LAND OF RAPE & HONEY. In so doing, Ministry became the template for scores of industrial bands to come, combining roaring, metallic guitars, distorted, demonic vocals, and relentlessly pounding electronics. By the '90s, they were alt-rock icons, getting heavy play on MTV and appearing at the Lollapalooza festival. Even after Jourgensen's musical partner Bill Rieflin left in 1994, Ministry continued making dark, disturbing music for their legions of admirers.

Top Tracks

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• All Day

• Animosity

• Bad Blood

• Black Betty

• Brick Windows

• Burning Inside

• Deity

• Don't Stand In Line

• End Of Days, Pt. 2

• Every Day Is Halloween

• Flashback

• Gangree

• I Wanted To Tell Her

• Jesus Built My Hotrod

• Just Like You

• Just One Fix

• Khyber Pass

• Lay Lady Lay

• Let's Go

• Lies Lies Lies

• N.w.o.

• No Bunny

• No Glory

• No Name No Slogan

• No W

• Nursing Home

• Over The Shoulder

• Overkill

• Radar Love

• Roadhouse Blues

• Señor Peligro

• So What

• Stigmata

• Supernaut

• The Angel

• The Great Satan

• The Last Sucker

• The Light Pours Out Of Me

• The Missing

• Thieves

• Unsung

• Useless

• What A Wonderful World

• What About Us?

• Whip And Chain

• Work For Love

• Wrong

• You Know What You Are

Discography

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• The Last Dubber

  13th Planet / Megaforce / 13th Planet/Megaforce

  2009

• Cover Up

  13th Planet

  2008

• Rio Grande Dub-Ya

  13th Planet/Megaforce

  2007

• Houses of the Molé

  Sanctuary

  2004

• Animositisomina

  Mayan

  2003

• Sphinctour

  Sanctuary

  2002

• Live Psalm 69 Tour

  Ipecac

  2000

• The Dark Side of the Spoon

  Warner Bros.

  1999

• Filth Pig

  Flashback Records / Warner Bros.

  1995

• In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up

  Sire

  1990

• The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste

  Sire

  1989

• The Land of Rape and Honey

  Sire

  1988

• Twitch

  Sire

  1986

• Everyday Is Halloween

  Wax Trax! Records

  1984

• With Sympathy

  Arista

  1983