Before Ministry was the angry, thrashy, pounding industrial metal band we know them as today, they were an electro-industrial group similar to Skinny Puppy. Before Ministry was that, though, they were a synthpop/new wave band that contrasts very heavily with their later selves, not only in style, but in aesthetic as well. A lot of people love to give Ministry crap for this record, but I've never thought that way about it. The album is predominantly just cheesy 80's synthpop with one brilliant song ("Revenge") and one pretty good one ("Effigy"). The rest of the songs I'd be hard pressed to call "bad", but a couple of moments are pretty cringeworthy. That being said, the record does have really good moments too. Sure, it's not the greatest thing in the world, but in no way is this album a bad one and in no way does this album deserve the ire it draws from people. It's Ministry before they were truly Ministry, but as it stands by itself, it's a decent album.
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