Ministry (band)

See also: Revolting Cocks. The entire 2005 US Club tour sold out in under 10 minutes, with tickets selling on eBay and other sources for more than $200. Ministry's latest album, The Houses of the Molé, was released in 2004. Surprisingly, this was done without seeking permission, though NIN is credited in the end credits for the song. Longtime bassist Barker left the band in 2003. The credit sequence for the David Fincher film Seven uses the NIN song "Closer (precursor)". Ministry's single "Bad Blood" appeared on the soundtrack album of The Matrix and was nominated for a 2000 Grammy award, but for the next several years, label problems prevented much recorded material from being released, except the Sphinctour album and DVD in 2002. Reznor himself received a "Music Consultant" credit on the film.

In spite of their growing success, Ministry was derailed by a series of drug problems and arrests, and finally, the suicide of guitarist William Tucker. Man on Fire featured clips from six Nine Inch Nails songs: "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One", "Self Destruction, Part Two", and "The Downward Spiral (the bottom)" from Further Down the Spiral; "The Mark Has Been Made" and "The Great Below" from The Fragile; and "The Wretched" from Things Falling Apart. The three other albums were Filth Pig (1995), Dark Side of the Spoon (1999) and Animositisomina (2003). The Fan featured a clip from "The Art of Self Destruction, Part One" from Further Down the Spiral. The music video was a hit on MTV, and the full-length Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs was another hit. Director Tony Scott has used Nine Inch Nails music in two of his films to date. After several years of touring and recording, Ministry broke into the mainstream in 1991 with "Jesus Built My Hotrod" (co-written by Michael Balch, and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers). Trent Reznor is in possession of John Lennon's mellotron, which he has used on Broken, The Fragile, and Marilyn Manson's second album, Antichrist Superstar.

Ministry would also inspire and inform the industrial collectives of the 1990s such as Pigface and KMFDM. In their early days, NIN used Phantasy as their practice space and it was home for many of their concerts. Barker released his own material as Lead Into Gold and Jourgensen lent his heavy hand to treating Skinny Puppy's Rabies LP. He assembles different producers, engineers and musicians to assist him in creating new songs, though Reznor writes all of the lyrics himself and is in sole control of the direction of the band. Similarly, Reznor assembles a live backing band for each NIN tour. Jourgensen and Barker also formed Lard with Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra, Acid Horse with Cabaret Voltaire, 1000 Homo Djs with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, PTP with Chris Connelly and Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi. Trent Reznor is the only official member of the band. "Revco," as it was fondly referred to, was essentially the same band plus Belgian vocalist Luc Van Acker. More than likely, Reznor will need to finish the tour for With Teeth before he can find time to work on this project.

Foremost of these was Ministry's alter ego, the Revolting Cocks. In a response to a question on the official NIN website (http://www.nin.com), Reznor indicated that he would like to release surround sound versions of Pretty Hate Machine and The Fragile, similar to what was done for the 10th anniversary editions of The Downward Spiral. Many of these bore Ministry's signature sound and the duo's "Hypo Luxa/Hermes Pan" production imprint. A DVD version of Closure is forthcoming, pending the resolution of some legal troubles. Throughout the late 1980s Jourgensen and Barker expanded their ideas beyond Ministry into a seemingly endless parade of side projects and collaborations. This album will be preceded by the release of the single The Hand That Feeds. Both albums stretched the definition of industrial to include the tight, thick soundscapes formerly occupied by thrash metal, albeit with jackhammer drums, obscure samples and unconventional electronic processing. NIN's fifth major release, With Teeth, is due to be released on May 3, 2005.

The follow-up, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste was just as acclaimed. More information on Reznor's work outside of Nine Inch Nails can be found in the Trent Reznor entry. The album was a smash success in the underground music scene. As a tribute to this, the programmers of the game included a nail gun as a weapon, whose ammo boxes bore the NIN logo. With Paul Barker, William Rieflin, Mike Scaccia and Chris Connelly, Jourgensen recorded The Land of Rape and Honey (1988). NIN created the ambient music for id software's computer game Quake in 1996. Though Twitch did not sell well, it set the stage for Ministry's move into industrial music. The band earned a Grammy for "Best Metal Performance" for their live performance of "Happiness in Slavery" when it was included on the 1996 Woodstock '94 double CD set.

Jourgensen parted ways with bandmate Stephen George and took the band in a new, more hardcore direction for Twitch (1985). NIN's mud-soaked performance at Woodstock '94 is one of their most famous moments. The debut album was With Sympathy (1983), but sales were sluggish. It also features the song "Help Me I Am in Hell" set to a black screen and the song "Gave Up" set to scenes within the film. The band was formed in 1981 by Alain Jourgensen.
Broken, the unreleased short film directed by Peter Christopherson, contains the videos for "Pinion", "Wish" and "Happiness in Slavery". Ministry is an industrial rock band of the 1980s and 90s. When any of these will be back in print is unknown.

Sphinctour (2002). Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3 and Halo 4 are out of print due to Reznor's conflict with his former label TVT Records. Halo 13, Halo 15 and Still from Halo 17 are also out of print. What About Us? - Promo (2001).
Many of these releases are now out of print. Tapes of Wrath (2000).
. In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up - Live! (1990). Official halos are as follows (colors denote main album eras):.

3 for One box (2000). Many independent and new wave records follow similar numbering schemes. Just Another Fix (1995). The Downward Spiral is also known as Halo 8). Box (1983). Each Nine Inch Nails release is given a sequential number, with the word "Halo" preceding it (eg. No "W" (2004). Other complaints have been about it's length and overabundence of computer-generated sound.

Bad Blood (1999). A music video for the North American single was chosen not to be released at the last minute, leading to less media impact than expected. Brick Windows (1996). Despite its sprawling size (It was released as a double CD and a triple vinyl), The Fragile is often considered by both fans and critics to be a disapointment. Lay Lady Lay (1995). The Fragile was followed by the remix album Things Falling Apart. The Fall (1995). Music videos for "We're In This Together", "Into the Void", and "Starfuckers Inc." (retitled as "Starsuckers, Inc.") were aired in the US.

Just One Fix (1992). It produced three singles, one released in the US ("The Day the World Went Away"), one in the UK ("We're In This Together") and one in Japan and Australia ("Into The Void"). N.W.O. (1992). NIN's fourth major release was The Fragile (1999). Jesus Built My Hotrod (1991). A remastered version of the album was released in February 2005, with an accompanying CD of b-sides and rarities. Burning Inside (1989). The Downward Spiral was followed by the remix EP Further Down the Spiral.

Stigmata (1988). The album's final track, "Hurt", would enjoy success once again when it was covered, with slight alterations to the lyrics, by Johnny Cash in 2003. Halloween Remix (1987). Music videos were made for the singles "March of the Pigs", "Closer", and "Hurt", with the edited MTV version of "Closer" becoming very successful. Over the Shoulder (1985). One of the singles, "The Downward Spiral" was only released to radio. The Nature of Love (1984). There were four singles released, "March of the Pigs", "Closer", "Hurt", and "The Downward Spiral".

All Day (1984). It went quadruple platinum and is often considered by critics to be NIN's best work. Work for Love (1983). NIN's second full album and third major release was The Downward Spiral ( 1994). Revenge (1983). Broken was followed by the remix EP Fixed. I Wanted to Tell Her (1983). A full length video informally called The Broken Movie was also made by Sleazy, but has not seen an official release.

Cold Life (1981). A video for "Pinion" aired twice on MTV before being banned for its objectionable content, although images from it did become a fixture in the opening title sequence of the MTV show 120 Minutes. Side Trax (2004). The video depicts performance artist Bob Flanagan strapping himself to a machine that subsequently pleasures, tortures and kills him. Early Trax (2004). Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson of Coil directed a music video for "Happiness in Slavery," which was universally banned due to its graphic content. The Houses of the Molé (2004). The song "Wish" won a Grammy in the "metal" category.

Animositisomina (2003). It was later released as one CD, with the bonus songs as "hidden" tracks 98 and 99. Sphinctour (2002). It was originally released in a fold-out format, containing the first six tracks on a regular CD and an additional three-inch minidisc with the remaining bonus tracks. Greatest Fits (2001). NIN's second major release was Broken (1992), an EP of six tracks plus two bonus tracks. Dark Side of the Spoon (1999). It went triple platinum in the US and produced the singles "Head Like a Hole," "Down in It" and "Sin." Music videos were made for these three tracks, but only the videos for "Head Like a Hole" and "Down in It" were ever completed and released.

Filth Pig (1995). NIN's debut album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989), largely consists of studio versions of demo recordings. Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs (1992). "The Perfect Drug" has the flavor of drum and bass, "Down in It" is essentially a rap, "Happiness in Slavery" is industrial, "The Frail" is a melancholy piano piece, and most of Pretty Hate Machine could be considered dark synth pop. In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live) (1990). NIN's songs cover a range of genres; as a body of work, they cannot be pigeonholed. The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989). So, I'd say I've borrowed from certain styles and bands like that." [2] (http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/axc94a.shtml).

The Land of Rape and Honey (1988). And because someone didn't come up with a new name that separates those two somewhat unrelated genres, it tends to irritate all the old school fans waving their flags of alternativeness and obscurity. Twelve Inch Singles (1987). I'm working in the context of a pop song structure whereas those bands didn't. Twitch (1985). We have very little to do with it other than there is noise in my music and there is noise in theirs. With Sympathy (1983). "What was originally called industrial music was about 20 years ago Throbbing Gristle and Test Department.

NIN's sound has variously been described as alternative, electronica, heavy metal, rock, synth pop, or, most commonly, industrial. Regarding his music being categorized as industrial, Reznor had this to say in a 1994 Axcess magazine interview:. [In his best he-man voice] Tough and manly! It's a curse trying to come up with band names." [1] (http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/axc94a.shtml). It seemed kind of frightening. It really doesn't have any literal meaning.

Nine Inch Nails lasted the two week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily. I had about 200 of those. "I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it's stupid. They asked him how he came up with the name Nine Inch Nails and this was his reply:.

Axcess magazine interviewed Reznor after the release of The Downward Spiral in 1994. Nine Inch Nails (NIИ, the second "N" is flipped horizontally on album and promotional art) is a critically and commercially successful American band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1988 by Trent Reznor. Jeordie White - Bass, Guitar. Aaron North - Guitar.

Jerome Dillon - Drums. Alessandro Cortini - Keyboard. Danny Lohner - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard. Robin Finck - Guitar, Keyboard.

Jerome Dillon - Drums. Charlie Clouser - Keyboard, Theremin. Charlie Clouser - Keyboards, Drums. Chris Vrenna - Drums.

Danny Lohner - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard. Robin Finck - Guitar, Keyboard. Charlie Clouser - Keyboard (1995). James Woolley - Keyboard (1994).

Chris Vrenna - Drums. Danny Lohner - Bass, Guitar, Keyboard. Robin Finck - Guitar, Keyboard. James Woolley - Keyboard.

Chris Vrenna - Drums (remainder of tour). Jeff Ward - Drums (beginning of tour). Richard Patrick - Guitar. "Deep" appears on the soundtrack for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).

The soundtrack also contains two songs credited only to Trent Reznor. "The Perfect Drug" appears on the soundtrack for Lost Highway (1997), which Reznor also produced. "Burn," "Something I Can Never Have" and "A Warm Place" appear on the soundtrack for Natural Born Killers (1994), which Reznor also produced. "Dead Souls," NIN's cover of the Joy Division song, appears on the soundtrack for The Crow (1994).