Ministry Lyrics
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From the Album
1. B.D.E.
2. Goddamn White Trash
3. Just Stop Oil
4. Aryan Embarrassment
5. TV Song 1/6 Edition
6. New Religion
7. Its Not Pretty
8. Cult of Suffering
9. Rickys Hand
From the Album
1. Alert Level
2. Good Trouble
3. Sabotage is Sex
4. Disinformation
5. Search and Destroy
6. Believe Me
7. Broken System
8. We Shall Resist
9. Death Toll
10. TV Song #6
From the Album
1. N.W.O.
2. Just One Fix
3. TV II
4. Hero
5. Jesus Built My Hotrod
6. Scarecrow
7. Psalm 69
8. Corrosion
9. Grace
From the Album
1. Stigmata
2. The Missing
3. Deity
4. Golden Dawn
5. Destruction
6. Hizbollah
7. The Land Of Rape And Honey
8. You Know What You Are
9. I Prefer
10. Flashback
11. Abortive
Other Songs
10/10
99 Percenters
All Day
AmeriKKKa
Animosity
Anthem
Antifa
Apathy
Ass Clown
Bad Blood
Ballad
Bang A Gong
Better Ways
Black Betty
Bloodlines
Bloodlust
Breathe
Brick Windows
Broken
Burning Inside
Cannibal Song
Cold Life
Cold Life Dub
Crumbs
Dead Guy
Death and Destruction
Death & Destruction
Deitry
Dick Song
Die In A Crash
Dont Stand In Line
Double Tap
Dream Song
Effigy
Effigy (I'm Not An)
End Of Days
End of Days (Part 1)
End of Days (Part 2)
Eureka Pile
Every Day Is Halloween
Everybody
(Everyday Is) Halloween
Faith Collapsing
Fall
Favorite Things
Fear
Fear (Is Big Business)
Filth Pig
FreeFall
Game Over
Game Show
Gangreen
Ghouldiggers
Git Up Get Out N Vote
Goddamm White Trash
Hail to His Majesty (Peasants)
Halloween
Happy Dust
Here We Go
Hes Angry
Hey Asshole
I Know Words
I Wanted To Tell Her
I Will Refuse
Im Falling
Impossible
Iron Man
Isle Of Man
Jesus Built Mu Hotrod
Just Got Paid
Just Like You
Kaif
Khyber Pass
Kleptocracy
Lava
Lay Lady Lay
Leper
Let's Go
Lies Lies Lies
LiesLiesLies
Life Is Good
Lockbox
Man Should Surrender
Mississippi Queen
Move
My Possession
Nature of Love
Never Beleive
Never Believe
No Bunny
No Glory
No Name No Slogan
No W
Nursing Home
N.W.O. (New World Order)
Over The Shoulder
Overkill
Paint It Black
Paisley
Palestina
Paranoid
Permawar
Piss
Psalm 23
Punch in the Face
Purple Haze
Quick Fix
Radar Love
Rehab
Relapse
Reload
Revenge
Rio Grande Blood
Roadhouse Blues
Rubber Glove Seduction
Say Youre Sorry
Scare Crow
Senor Peligro
Señor Peligro
Sgt. Major Redux
Sharp Dressed Man
Shes Got A Cause
Should Have Known Better
Shove
Show Me Your Spine
Show Me Your Spine (From Robo Cop)
Side F/X Include Mikey's Middle Finger
Smothered Hope
So What
Space Truckin
Step
Stolen
Stranglehold
Supermanic Soul
Supernaut
Sweet Dreams
Test
The Angel
The Dick Song
The Fall
The Great Satan
The Last Sucker
The Light Pours Out Of Me
The Nature Of Love
Thieves
Thunderstruck
Tonight We Murder
TV 5/4 Chan
TV III
TV Song
Twilight Zone
Under My Thumb
United Forces
Unsung
Useless
Vex and Siolence
Vex & Siolence
Victims of a Clown
Waiting
Walrus
Wanted To Tell Her
Wargasm
Warp City
Watch Yourself
We Believe
Weekend Warrior
Were Tired of It
What A Wonderful World
What About Us?
What He Say
Where You at Now
Where You At Now? / Crash And Burn / Twitch
Whip And Chain
Whip Or Chain
WKYJ
Work For Love
World
Worm
Worthless
Wrong
WTV
Yellow Cake
Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1981 by producer, singer, and instrumentalist Al Jourgensen. Originally a synth-pop outfit, Ministry evolved into one of the pioneers of industrial rock and industrial metal in the late 1980s. The band's lineup has changed frequently, leaving Jourgensen as the sole remaining original member. Musicians who have contributed to the band's studio or live activities include vocalists Nivek Ogre, Chris Connelly, Gibby Haynes, Burton C. Bell and Jello Biafra, guitarists Mike Scaccia and Tommy Victor, guitarist Cesar Soto, bassists Paul Barker, Paul Raven, Jason Christopher, Tony Campos and Paul D'Amour, drummers Jimmy DeGrasso, Bill Rieflin, Martin Atkins, Rey Washam, Max Brody, Joey Jordison and Roy Mayorga, keyboardist John Bechdel, and rappers and producers DJ Swamp and Arabian Prince.
Ministry attained commercial success during the late 1980s and early 1990s with three of their studio albums: The Land of Rape and Honey (1988), The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989) and Psalm 69 (1992). The first two were certified gold while Psalm 69 was certified platinum by the RIAA. Psalm 69 was followed by Filth Pig (1996), which was a stylistic departure for the band, and earned Ministry its highest chart position on the Billboard 200 at number nineteen, although it was met with mixed reception by critics and marked the beginning of the band's commercial decline. The lackluster response to their next album, Dark Side of the Spoon (1999), resulted in Warner Bros. dropping Ministry from the label and the group entered an extended hiatus in early 2000s, when Jourgensen entered rehab after years of substance abuse.
Following Jourgensen's recovery, Ministry resurfaced in 2003 with Animositisomina, which turned out to be their last album with Paul Barker, who would leave the band the same year after nearly two decades as an official member. Ministry returned to the thrash/industrial style of Psalm 69 and released three albums critical of then-President of the United States, George W. Bush, dubbed the "Bush Trilogy": Houses of the Molé (2004), Rio Grande Blood (2006) and The Last Sucker (2007); these albums effectively revitalized the band's commercial viability. Although The Last Sucker was initially intended to be the band's final album, Ministry reformed in 2011 and released Relapse in the following year. On December 23, 2012, longtime guitar contributor Mike Scaccia died of a heart attack, and he was posthumously featured in the next Ministry album, From Beer to Eternity (2013), which was again supposed to be their last album, as Jourgensen thought his death was the end of the band. Despite this, Ministry has since released three more albums, AmeriKKKant (2018), Moral Hygiene (2021) and Hopiumforthemasses (2024), while tentative talks of a second break up of the band, after at least one more album, have ensued since 2022.
The band has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and has performed at several music festivals, including the second annual Lollapalooza tour in 1992, co-headlining Big Day Out in 1995 and performing at Wacken Open Air thrice (in 2006, 2012 and 2016).
Members:
Ministry attained commercial success during the late 1980s and early 1990s with three of their studio albums: The Land of Rape and Honey (1988), The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989) and Psalm 69 (1992). The first two were certified gold while Psalm 69 was certified platinum by the RIAA. Psalm 69 was followed by Filth Pig (1996), which was a stylistic departure for the band, and earned Ministry its highest chart position on the Billboard 200 at number nineteen, although it was met with mixed reception by critics and marked the beginning of the band's commercial decline. The lackluster response to their next album, Dark Side of the Spoon (1999), resulted in Warner Bros. dropping Ministry from the label and the group entered an extended hiatus in early 2000s, when Jourgensen entered rehab after years of substance abuse.
Following Jourgensen's recovery, Ministry resurfaced in 2003 with Animositisomina, which turned out to be their last album with Paul Barker, who would leave the band the same year after nearly two decades as an official member. Ministry returned to the thrash/industrial style of Psalm 69 and released three albums critical of then-President of the United States, George W. Bush, dubbed the "Bush Trilogy": Houses of the Molé (2004), Rio Grande Blood (2006) and The Last Sucker (2007); these albums effectively revitalized the band's commercial viability. Although The Last Sucker was initially intended to be the band's final album, Ministry reformed in 2011 and released Relapse in the following year. On December 23, 2012, longtime guitar contributor Mike Scaccia died of a heart attack, and he was posthumously featured in the next Ministry album, From Beer to Eternity (2013), which was again supposed to be their last album, as Jourgensen thought his death was the end of the band. Despite this, Ministry has since released three more albums, AmeriKKKant (2018), Moral Hygiene (2021) and Hopiumforthemasses (2024), while tentative talks of a second break up of the band, after at least one more album, have ensued since 2022.
The band has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and has performed at several music festivals, including the second annual Lollapalooza tour in 1992, co-headlining Big Day Out in 1995 and performing at Wacken Open Air thrice (in 2006, 2012 and 2016).
Al Jourgensen
John Bechdel
Monte Pittman
Cesar Soto
Roy Mayorga
Paul D'Amour
Past members:
Sin Quirin
Chris Connelly
Mark Baker
Paul Barker
Duane Buford
Stephen George
Zlatko Hukic
John Monte
Mark Pothier
Paul Raven
Bill Rieflin
Max Brody
Mike Scaccia
Louis Svitek
Rey Washam
Tommy Victor
Aaron Rossi
Thomas Holtgreve
Jason Christopher
DJ Swamp
Tony Campos
Terry Bones
John Soroka
From: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genre(s): Industrial metal, industrial rock, thrash metal, synth-pop
Associated Acts: Pigface
Quotes:
"I dress this way just to keep them at bay
Cause halloween is everyday"
- Every Day Is Halloween by Ministry
"I dress this way just to keep them at bay
Cause halloween is everyday"
-Ministry #HappyHalloween
from Every Day Is Halloween (2015)
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Cause halloween is everyday"
-Ministry #HappyHalloween
from Every Day Is Halloween (2015)
(more Ministry Quotes)