LABEL: Rhino
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 10/24/25
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1992
VARIANT: Expanded Edition 180 Gram Vinyl LP

Ministry’s most famous album may well be the band’s darkest masterpiece. Bandleader Al Jourgensen was spiraling even deeper into drug addiction during the making of their fifth full-length release, with that real-life horror spitting into furiously thrashing highlight “Just One Fix.” Sonically, it was also a minefield of black-metal adjacent blasting (“TV II”), terror-swung metal (“Psalm 69”) and geo-political industrial menace (“N.W.O.”). It oddly also has Butthole Surfers vocalist Gibby Haynes wang-danging away on the uproarious mock-rockabilly burner “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” a rare moment of levity on this incredible, but supremely unsettling Ministry classic.