ENTERTAINMENT
Ministry heads faithfully toward doom
Ministry
The Fifth Album
★ ★★
Capitol Records
1992
By Tim Neff
Emerald Associate Editor
While most remaining post
punk bunds are turning a cheer
ful cheek to their gloomy roots.
Ministry just keeps getting
more and more irked
It's sometimes hard to believe
that this band — a mid-19BOs
outgrowth of the dnnceable
techno-pop pioneered by
groups like Dopecho Mode and
New Order — have become the
grungy, apocalyptic, thrash
metal troubadors of the 1900s
But it's all in a day's work for
Ministry frontman Alain
Jourgensen, who once declared
that if he hadn't pursued a ca
reer in music, he would proba
bly be In jail by now.
Keeping that it mind. Minis
try's latest album, tith'd in un
decipherable Greek Morse
code, offers no surprises
jourgensen and trusty sidekick
Paul Barker pack enough ener
gy into this album to power a
small city
The themes are tru'd but true
drugs, politics, war and reli
gion. They are all neatly pack
aged in the traditional Ministry
wrappings of highly processed
and produced riffs
It may not sound very
unique, but the result is a
thrash-motal sound with
techno-pop overtones. If you
were to put the fans of the two
musical genres together in a
room, blood would spill But
the musical combination is
sweet.
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The Ministry sound I* rich
Normally abrasive power
chords are smoothed into lush
soundscapes for oasv ahsorp
tion Jourgensrn finds a rifr and
stays with it until it mesmer
izes and soothes — tf that's
what you're Into It's also tailor
made for the mosh pit. if
head hanging Is your cup of tea
Spliced Into the sonic fray
are occasional electronic sam
ples, usually taken from well
known movies and speeches
The selection is humorous as
well as provoking
Ministry didn't attain all of
this musical chaos overnight
Rather, they have evolved since
their first release. With Sympu
thy. in the early 1‘tmts Mere,
we thought, was yet another
group for new wave trendoids,
destined to get the youngsters
out onto the dance floor until
the hand went to that great un
derage dub in ihr sky
Bui then came the legendary
nibum Twih h. an almost 180
degree turnabout for the band
Thu music was still dance-ori
ented, but camp hnavlly lacnd
with Industrial drumming and
synthesized vocals Good ol'
Alain was having a change of
heart
Things were sealed in I0K8,
when thi> bund released Land
of Nape and Hone) By now.
the Ministry sound was down
right angry The footloose
crowd was turning away in
droves, but the diehard found
enough dance |K>tentlal In the
song "Stigmata" to make it a
minor bit In the club scene
We knew Alain had finally
gone over the edge in 1‘IHO,
when he appeared on Skinny
Puppy's album Habit's under
the clever alias “Alien
lourgensen” That same year,
Ministry released The Mind is
a Terrible Thlnn to Taste.
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