Rantology [PA]

Performer: Ministry
Engineer: Marco A. Ramírez
Producer: Al Jourgensen; Al Jourgensen; Jeff Magid (Compilation)
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: The tracks on this compilation were picked, produced, remixed and in some cases, updated by Ministry's Al Jourgensen. One track "THE GREAT SATAN" was previously unreleased. Ministry: Al Jourgensen (vocals, programming); Chris Connelly. Additional personnel: Gibby Haynes (vocals). Audio Remixer: Al Jourgensen. Liner Note Author: Mick Stingley. Photographer: Paul Elledge. Following on the heels of 2004's HOUSES OF THE MOLE, Ministry's RANTOLOGY is an odds-and-ends collection that features songs from that album (mostly in reworked form), as well as other remixed, rare, and live tracks. As the title implies, this compilation presents the Chicago-based industrial-metal group at its most vitriolic, with many tunes directly taking on the George W. Bush administration, most obviously on the revamped "No W" and an updated version of the fierce Ministry classic "N.W.O." As always, frontman Al Jourgensen's crushingly heavy sound is at the fore, whether on the epic "Bloodlines," a blistering live rendition of "Thieves," or the previously unreleased barnstormer, "The Great Satan."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Ministry have spent over 20 years making music so industrial a German steelworks is, in comparison, a pastoral idyll."

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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