The Land Of Rape And Honey

Performer: Ministry
Artist: Chris Connelly
Distributor: Infinity Entertainment Gr

Notes: Ministry: Alain Jourgensen (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Paul Barker (bass, programming, background vocals). Additional personnel: Chris Connelly (vocals); William Reiflin (drums). Producers: Hermes Pan, Eddie Echo, Hupo Luxa. Engineers include: Alain Jourgensen, Steve Spapperi, Julian Herzfeld. Recorded at Chicago Trax Studios, Chicago, Illinois, and Southern Studios, London, England.

Spin (5/01, p.112) - Ranked #43 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Industrial disco for high school stage-crew guys with tab-a-day acid habits....'Stigmata' is the prototype: gigantic metal riffs, pounding drum machines, distorto vox, and war-movie samples..." Q (12/92, p.149) - 3 Stars - Good - "...a relentless swirl of Motorhead meets Metallica--hurtling rhythms, growled vocals and speeding guitar riffs amid a sea of distorting electro-noise and sampled effects...Raw but riveting..." Alternative Press (8/01, p.112) - Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums". Alternative Press (7/95, p.78) - Ranked #12 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...in the short happy history of industrial rock...there's absolutely no denying that LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY is year zero....A seamless collision of musique concrete, dance music, sampling and heavy metal that expresses the semi-articulate anger of this generation better than any slacker handbook..." Kerrang (Magazine) (p.53) - "[W]ay ahead of its time, marrying repetitive electronics with ultra heavy music."

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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