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June 21, 2004

Ministry's War on Bush

Industrial vets' "Houses" targets White House
June 12, 1999

Kmart Bans Ministry's "Dark Side of the Spoon"

Kmart Bans Ministry's "Dark Side of the Spoon"
June 11, 1999

Kmart Bans Ministry's "Dark Side of the Spoon"

Kmart finds the cover of Ministry's new album offensive

Recordings and Reviews

Houses of the Mole

When it's not firing salvos at an obvious target (hint: all the songs begin with "W"), Houses of the Mole plays directly to Ministry's metalhead contingent, ignoring the gentler adrenaline junkies won over by 1992's pile-driving Psalm 69. Packed to the gills with loud-ass electro-skronk and Al Jourg...

2004 RS: 2of 5 Stars

Animositisomina

2003

Dark Side Of The Spoon

1999

Filth Pig

1996

With Sympathy

1983

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Biography

At its peak, Ministry made the loudest, ugliest, most uncompromising music out there -- or at least the loudest, ugliest, most uncompromising music out there worth listening to. Like fellow pop industrial-ist Trent Reznor, Ministry frontman Alain Jourgensen learned his doofy goth clich?©s from the inside when he led a drippy synth band. But unlike Reznor, Jourgensen learned to play gloom and doom ...

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