Sphinctour [PA]

Performer: Ministry
Producer: Jeffrey Kinert
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Ministry: Al Jourgensen (vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums); Paul Barker (vocals, bass guitar, programming); Z. Hukic, Louis Svitek (guitar); Duane Buford (keyboards); Reynolds Washam (drums). Combining doomy, aggressive synth-pop beats with unrelenting heavy-metal riffs and a terminally gloomy, angry worldview, Ministry provides a soundtrack to restless youth getting their first look at harsh reality. After touring with Lollapalooza in the early '90s, Ministry embarked on one of their biggest tours ever in 1996. Entitled SPHINCTOUR, this journey took them across North America and Europe with their industrial-rock attack. This collection of performances from that tour includes 13 tracks, each performed in a different venue from Chicago to Paris to Brussels to Albuquerque. Includes "Scarecrow," "Psalm 69," "Filth Pig," and the epic "Stigmata."

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.

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