It's on this, their fourth album, where the Chicago-born band came into their own and started testing the waters of their vision of more guitar driven industrial music. Along with Godflesh's Streetcleaner, which was actually released in the same month, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste provided the foundations for industrial metal. It's all here: a militant, forceful sound, oddly catchy choruses and riffs, lyrics dealing with all sorts of human depravity, and professionally placed samples. Officially, Ministry is a duo on this record, but they got help from and gave deserved credit to many more excellent musicians along the way. On another note, the song "Test", which features fully rapped verses and hooks, was pretty influential in the budding genre of rap metal, almost acting as a spiritual precursor to the famous Public Enemy and Anthrax collaboration "Bring Tha Noise". Truly then, with this record, Ministry became a band worth putting some stock into.
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