MINISTRY "THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY" 1988 SIRE-PROMO STAMPED NM/EX-OOP LP

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ARTIST- MINISTRY

TITLE- “THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTO & BELOW

Companies, etc.

• Copyright (c) – Sire Records Company
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sire Records Company
• Copyright (c) – WEA International Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
• Recorded At – Chicago Trax Recording Studio
• Recorded At – Southern Studios
• Published By – Spurburn
• Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation

Credits

• Cover – Dog Ill Shanley*
• Engineer – A. Jourgensen*, Julian Herzfeld, Keith Auerbach, P. Barker*, Steve Spapperi
• Performer – Alain Jourgensen*, Paul Barker
• Performer [Additional Musicians] – Chris Connelly, William Rieflin
• Producer – Eddie Echo (tracks: B4), Hypo Luxa And Hermes Pan* (tracks: A1 to B3)
• Written-By – Ministry

Notes

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7599-25799-1 9
• Rights Society: BMI
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1 run out): [SRC logo] 1-25799-A-SR1 1-1
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2 run out): [SRC logo] 1-25799B SR1 1-1

YEAR OF RELEASE- 1988

LABEL- SIRE RECORDS

CAT.#- 1-253799

RECORD CONDITION- THE RECORD IS IN EXCELLENT/NM CONDITION.NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES ETC. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. THE SONGS PLAY & SOUND SUPER CLEAN. IT LOOKS UNTOUCHED/UNPLAYED

JACKET CONDITION- JACKET IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. SMALL CORNER DING IN THE UPPER RIGHT, HARD TO EVEN SEE. HAS A GOLD EMBOSSED PROMO STAMP

MORE INFO- THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE-

Ministry is an American industrial metal band, founded in 1981 by Al Jourgensen in Chicago, Illinois. Originally a synth-pop outfit, Ministry shifted its style to become one of the pioneers of industrial metal in the mid-to-late 1980s. The band's lineup has gone through many changes throughout its history, with Jourgensen remaining the only constant as the band's main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. Notable musicians who have contributed to the band's studio and live activities include Paul Barker, William Rieflin, Nivek Ogre, Mike Scaccia, Rey Washam, Paul Raven and Tony Campos.

Ministry found mainstream success in 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: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs (1992), with the former of the two certified gold and the latter certified platinum by the RIAA.[1] The 1996 follow-up album, Filth Pig, was also critically acclaimed but did not repeat the success of its predecessors; the album did, however, earn Ministry its highest chart position on the Billboard 200, peaking at number nineteen. The band has been nominated for six Grammy Awards, and performed at several notable music festivals, including participating in the second annual Lollapalooza tour in 1992 and co-headlining Big Day Out in 1995.

Ministry broke up in 2008 after 27 years of recording and performing, and Jourgensen had since stated that they would never reunite. However, the band announced a reunion in August 2011,[3] and has released two more studio albums since then: Relapse (2012) and From Beer to Eternity (2013). Their next studio album (and first in five years), titled AmeriKKKant, will be released on March 9, 2018.

The Land of Rape and Honey (1987–1988)[edit]

After Twitch, Jourgensen made the most significant change in Ministry's history when he resumed playing electric guitar.Jourgensen also brought bass guitarist Paul Barker of the Seattle band The Blackouts into the Ministry camp; Barker would remain Jourgensen's bandmate for many years when he was the only person credited as a member of the band other than Jourgensen. With the addition of The Blackouts drummer William Rieflin, Ministry recorded The Land of Rape and Honey (1988). The album continued their success in the underground music scene. The Land of Rape and Honey made use of synthesizers, keyboards, tape loops, jackhammering drum machines, dialogue excerpted from movies, unconventional electronic processing, and, in parts, heavy distorted electric guitar and bass.

The album was supported by a tour in 1988 and the singles and music videos for "Stigmata" and "Flashback". Stigmata was also used in a key scene in Richard Stanley's 1990 film Hardware, although the band shown performing the song was Gwar.

The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1988 on Sire Records. The first in a series of major departures from the bands previous two synthpop and EBM records, the band sought to expand immensely on elements their previous work Twitch had only touched upon. The less commercial, industrial-laced collection of tracks incorporate elements of metal such as fast electric guitar riffs, something that would become commonplace for the band, although only the second/third songs and the remix for "Stigmata"'s video use guitars extensively.[4] With TLoRaH came the inclusion of bassist Paul Barker, who would remain a member of the band until his departure in 2004. It also marked a dramatic shift in vocal cadence, as Al's faux British accent present since With Sympathy was dropped, though it remains (albeit distorted heavily) on the first track.

The resulting sound is often cited as a pioneering work in the industrial metal genre, and is considered by Jourgensen as ostensibly the "first" Ministry album, though he would experiment with this sound prior to its release under different names, such as 1000 Homo DJs.

The album title comes from the slogan of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, whose motto at that time was "The Land of Rape and Honey",the local economy being based on the agricultural products rapeseed and honey.[6] The band chose the name after seeing the slogan on a souvenir mug

The album cover is an electronically processed image of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald] Jourgensen took a picture of the holocaust from a documentary on television and distorted the image himself. According to Jourgensen, it was originally rejected by the record label but they later changed their mind after Jourgensen presented a head of a roadkilled deer he had found on the road; he cut off the head, put it in his truck, drove from Austin to Los Angeles, went into the Sire Records building, threw the deer on the desk of the head of the art department and said, "here's your new fucking [album] cover.

The track Stigmata is featured in Richard Stanley's 1990 science fiction thriller Hardware, although the band shown performing the track is actually Gwar. In his autobiography, Jourgensen said that Stigmata is his least favorite song in the Ministry catalogue for its simplistic songwriting. The song did not have any guitars on it but were all sampled; using only two chords in every riff and the second one was bent with a pitch shifter. He wrote Stigmata at the last minute after realizing he needed another song to complete the album.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in January 1996. The album was out of print for a few years in the early 2000s, but was re-issued by Wounded Bird Records in 2007. This re-issue is misprinted, labeling the title track "The Land of Milk and Honey."

In 2016, Al Jourgensen cited The Land of Rape and Honey as his favorite Ministry album. He added that he was inspired to create "word cut-ups" from the works of Allen Toussaint and William S. Burroughs. Bands like Fear Factory, Linkin Park, Slipknot and Nine Inch Nails cite this album as major influence.

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