Track Listing

1. N.W.O
2. Just One Fix
3. TV II
4. Hero
5. Jesus Built My Hotrod
6. Scarecrow
7. Psalm 69
8. Corrosion
9. Grace

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9965 in Music
• Released on: 1992-07-14
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Ministry's followup to The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste makes use of the same aggressive approach but sinks to a darker and fiercer level. Chokehold opener "N.W.O." uses tape loops of then-President Bush calling for a "New World Order," which Ministry delivers by infusing their industrial savvy with machine-gunned, thrash metal guitars, relentless beats, and vocals that run the gamut from deranged auctioneer of the damned ("Jesus Built My Hotrod") to terrifying screams ("Just One Fix"). Fast and furious, Psalm 69 is an acidic taste of Ministry at their most focused and diabolical. --Erin Amar

Customer Reviews

Best Mnistry album
When this record came out it established a new sound, the heaviest thing ever heard at the time! It was a very intense experience, nowadays psalm 69 remains Ministry's best effort so far. Among the best Industrial metal records of all time.

Sucks eggs
Midway through the opening cut, "N.W.O.," with Bush Sr. rapping at the mic, there's a moment where all the steroid-chugging axe grinding and scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs-like-you're-a-frantic-ghoul vocals fade and the listener is left with a myopic dance beat. And that's when well-versed listeners will remember that Ministry started out (shudder at "Twitch") and was condemned to remain a sissy boogie band. Alain Jourgensen and pals merely added a Skinny Puppy motor to their makeshift parade float by the time they recorded "Land of Rape and Honey."

"Psalm" continues to lose IQ points as you delve further. The clunky wrestler's-catwalk theme "TV II" and meathead-friendly powerpuff "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" reveal Jourgenson to be in the same dopey league as the Bush clan he so constantly rails against. "Tell me something I don't know" is something I'm sure George Jr. has uttered more than once at a press conference followed up by one of his signature dreamy smile/cringes, perhaps that followed by a couple "Diggy diggy-don a dong dong ding-dong." And what does the line, "Who'm I trying to impress, who could care less?" mean other than that Jourgensen has no faith in his convictions or he just can't take himself seriously. Consider, he is at the least insulting his fans, implicating that they don't have the will or capacity to understand his message.

However, if the most challenging music you can handle is jerry-built by bands like Kid Rock, Monster Magnet and White Zombie, then by all means add this to your collection. However, first put down that bong and check to make sure you don't already have it somewhere in your milk-crate library.

This album owns!!!!
Great thrash album, Al has done it again, great songs awesome riffs and great lyrics all the way threw.