Houses of the Molé [PA]

Performer: Ministry
Engineer: Kol Marshal
Producer: Al Jourgensen
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Contains sixty untitled tracks following "Worm". Ministry: Al Jourgensen (vocals, guitar, harmonica, bass instrument, programming); Mike Scaccia (guitar, bass guitar); John Monte (bass instrument); Mark Baker (drums, percussion). In a striking return to form, Ministry revisits the sound that it honed to a dangerously sharp edge on 1992's PSALM 69 with 2004's HOUSES OF THE MOLE. While the former album sampled the senior George Bush on the blistering "N.W.O," MOLE (actually printed with an accent over the "e" to rhyme with "holy") uses sound clips of his son George W. Bush on numerous tracks, most blatantly on the none-too-subtly named "No W." Sticking with the "W" theme, all other tracks on MOLE start with that letter, whether it?s the rapid-fire "Waiting" or the lumbering "Wrong." Unsurprisingly, these songs are as subtle as a sledgehammer in both their blunt social commentary and musical attack, with Ministry frontman Al "Alien" Jourgensen gleefully reigning over the proceedings. To make the heavier-than-thou PSALM 69 connection absolutely explicit, Jourgensen follows the album's nine listed songs with 60 more tracks, two of which feature additional sonic mayhem.

CMJ (p.4) - "Ministry's latest album is more of the same hyperfast metal guitar and industrial banging that Al Jourgensen And Co. have become known for....[The album] maintains Jourgensen's presence as the godfather of industrial metal."

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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