Ministry

Country	United States
Formed	1981, Chicago, Illinois (early), El Paso, Texas (later)
Genres	Industrial Metal, New Wave, Synthpop, Industrial, Electronic
Labels	AFM Records

Line-up (members)

Al Jourgensen : Vocals, Guitars, Programming, Keyboards (1981-2008, 2011-2013, 2014-)
Sinhue Quirin : Guitars, Bass (2007-2008), Guitars (2014-)
Cesar Soto : Guitars (2015-)
Tony Campos : Bass (2007-2008, 2011-2013, 2014-)
Aaron Rossi : Drums (2007-2008, 2011-2013, 2014-)
John Bechdel : Keyboards (2007-2008, 2011-2013, 2014-)

Former members

Marty Sorenson : Bass (1981-1983)
Lamont Welton : Bass (1981)
Stephen George : Drums (1981-1984)
John Davis : Keyboards (1981-1983)
Paul Taylor : Keyboards (1981)
Brad Hallen : Bass (1982-1986)
Mark Pothier : Keyboards (1982-1983)
Robert Roberts : Keyboards (1982-1983)
Walter Turbitt : Guitars (1983)
Doug Chamberlin : Keyboards (1983-1984)
Patty Marsh : Keyboards, Vocals (1983-1986)
Paul Barker : Bass, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals (1986-2003)
Bill Rieflin : Drums, Programming (1986-1995)
Jeff Ward : Drums (1988) (R.I.P. 1993)
Chris Connelly : Keyboards, Vocals (1988-1993)
Mike Scaccia : Guitars (1989-1996, 2002-2007, 2011-2012), Bass (2004) (R.I.P. 2012)
William Tucker : Guitars (1990) (R.I.P. 1999)
Michael Balch : Keyboards, Programming (1991-1993)
Louis Svitek : Guitars (1992-2003)
Howie Beno : Programming (1992)
Gibby Haynes : Vocals (1992)
Rey Washam : Drums, Percussion, Programming (1995-1999, 2003)
Zlatko Hukic : Guitars (1996-1999)
Max Brody : Drums, Percussion, Programming, Saxophone (2003-2004)
Adam Grossman : Guitars (2003)
Kol Marshall : Keyboards (2003-2004)
John Monte : Bass (2004)
Eddy Garcia : Bass (2004-2005)
Bryan Kehoe : Guitars (2004)
Rick Valles : Guitars (2004-2005)
Tommy Victor : Guitars, Bass (2005-2008), Backing Vocals (2007), Guitars (2011-2013)
Paul Vincent Raven : Bass, Keyboards, Guitars, Drums, Programming, Vocals (2006-2007) (R.I.P. 2007)
Joey Jordison : Drums (2006-2007)
Burton C. Bell : Lead Vocals (2007-2008)
Jimmy DeGrasso : Drums (2008)
Casey Orr : Bass (2012-2013)
Monte Pittman : Guitars (2014-2015)

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Ministry Discography

Album title	Type	Released	Rating
Cold Life (1981)	Single	1981	-
I'm Falling (1981)	Single	1981	-
Work for Love (1982)	Single	1982	-
Here We Go (1983)	Single	1983	-
I Wanted to Tell Her (1983)	Single	1983	-
Revenge (1983)	Single	1983	-
With Sympathy (1983)	Studio	1983-08	-
All Day / Everyday (Is Halloween) (1985)	Single	1985	-
Halloween (Remix) / Nature of Outtakes (1985)	Single	1985	-
Over the Shoulder (1985)	Single	1985	-
The Nature of Love (1985)	Single	1985-10	-
Twitch (1986)	Studio	1986-07-08	-
Twelve Inch Singles (1981-1984) (1987)	Compilation	1987	-
The Land of Rape and Honey (1988)	Studio	1988-01	-
Stigmata (1988)	Single	1988-02-14	-
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989)	Studio	1989-11-14	-
Burning Inside (1989)	Single	1989-11-16	-
So What (1990)	Single	1990-03	-
In Case You Didn't Feel like Showing Up (1990)	Live	1990-09-04	-
Jesus Built My Hotrod (1991)	Single	1991-11-06	-
N.W.O. (1992)	Single	1992-07	-
ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (1992)	Studio	1992-07-14	-
Box (1993)	Boxed set	1993	-
Just One Fix (1993)	Single	1993-01-21	-
Burning Inside: Through the Years 89-92 (1994)	Live	1994	-
The Fall / Reload (1995)	Single	1995-12-05	-
Brick Windows (1996)	Single	1996	-
Filth Pig (1996)	Studio	1996-01-30	-
Lay Lady Lay (1996)	Single	1996-02	-
Dark Side of the Spoon (1999)	Studio	1999-06-08	-
Bad Blood (1999)	Single	1999-06-14	-
3 for One (2000)	Boxed set	2000-08-25	-
Tapes of Wrath (2000)	Video	2000-09-19	-
What About Us? (2001)	Single	2001	-
Greatest Fits (2001)	Compilation	2001-07-19	-
Sphinctour (2002)	Single	2002	-
Sphinctour (2002)	Live	2002-03-19	-
Sphinctour (2002)	Video	2002-08-23	-
Piss (2003)	Single	2003	-
Animositisomina (2003)	Studio	2003-02-17	-
No "W" (2004)	Single	2004	-
Twitched (2004)	Compilation	2004	-
Houses of the Molé (2004)	Studio	2004-06-21	-
Side Trax (2004)	Compilation	2004-10-11	-
Early Trax (2004)	Compilation	2004-10-12	-
Rantology (2005)	Compilation	2005-09-27	-
Rio Grande Blood (2006)	Studio	2006-05-02	-
Rio Grande Dub Ya (2007)	Compilation	2007-07-06	-
The Missing E.P. (2007)	EP	2007-07-09	-
The Last Sucker (2007)	Studio	2007-09-17	-
Cover Up (2008)	Compilation	2008-03-01	-
Adios... Puta Madres (2009)	Live	2009-03-31	-
Adios... Putas Madres (2009)	Video	2009-05-22	-
The Last Sucker (Hardware Revamp Mix) (2009)	Single	2009-09	-
The Last Dubber (2009)	Compilation	2009-09-15	-
Thunderstruck (2010)	Single	2010-05-24	-
Bloodlines (Remix) (2010)	Single	2010-08-17	-
MiXXXes of the Molé (2010)	Compilation	2010-08-17	-
Every Day Is Halloween - Greatest Tricks (2010)	Compilation	2010-10-05	-
Undercover (2010)	Compilation	2010-12-07	-
Stigmata (Remixes) (2011)	Single	2011	-
Very Best of Fixes & Remixes (2011)	Compilation	2011	-
Psalm 69 (GROW Remix) (2011)	Single	2011-01-05	-
99% (2011)	Single	2011-12-23	-
Double Tap (2012)	Single	2012-02-24	-
Relapse (2012)	Studio	2012-03-30	-
PermaWar (2013)	Single	2013-08-02	-
Enjoy the Quiet - Live at Wacken 2012 (2013)	Boxed set	2013-08-02	-
From Beer to Eternity (2013)	Studio	2013-09-10	-
Last Tangle in Paris - Live 2012 (2014)	Live	2014-07-08	-
Toronto 1986 (2015)	Live	2015-05-22	-
From Beer to Eternamix (2015)	Compilation	2015-11-22	-
Keys to the City (2016)	Single	2016-01-05	-

Best Ministry Songs

	Track title	Album title	Rating	Votes
1	Just One Fix	ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ (1992)	95	1

Additional notes

Ministry played their final concert at the Tripod in Dublin, Ireland on 19 July 2008, and split-up later that year. They announced a reunion on 7 August 2011. Devastated to continue on without guitarist Mike Scaccia, Ministry split-up once again after they released their new album "From Beer to Eternity" in September 2013. However, they reunited in 2014, again.

Ministry have been regarded as one of the pioneers of the industrial rock/metal genre along with others like Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Godflesh, Pitchshifter, Nine Inch Nails and Tackhead who all had a more "extreme" approach on the industrial metal genre.

Al Jourgensen got the band name from the B Movie titled "Ministry of Fear."

Al Jourgensen goes by a number of pseudonyms which include Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa (his alias as a music producer), Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan.

The band started playing new wave style music (coming from the demise from Al Jourgensen's first band Special Affect.) Over time, during the early 1980s, Ministry had evolved to what is now industrial music.

In 1989, with the album "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste," Ministry began to incorporate