#OTD November 14, 1989
Ministry released their fourth album, “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste”
Another move towards the industrial metal sound they’d become known for, this time with lots of guitars. In the 80s, they were a new wave synth pop band.
Their previous record, 1988’s “The Land of Rape And Honey” introduced a much more aggressive metal sound, though with more sampling and less guitar.
They toured a lot in support of this album, and iirc, the industrial metal sound was ascendent at this time (e.g. Pretty Hate Machine came out a month prior and was building a fan base).
Looking at my top picks for meaning I am struck by their bittersweet nature. This one predates my discovery of Trance; from the height of my interest in Industry.
I don't know how many times this went into my car's CD player after a hard day of work.
Hello, I am Mark aka Simple Nomad. I have been on the Internet before there was really an Internet. I've worked as a researcher remotely since 1999 for the last 5 jobs with the word "security" in my title (once had the word "scientist"!) Current job at #GitLab the entire company is #AllRemote and I can say that This Is The Way.
I have an extensive #homelab with static public IPs running real services (including this Mastodon instance), this network is a work lab as well as a home base for NMRC (https://www.nmrc.org), a #hacker collective formed mid-90s which still has a few active members.
Personal blog is at https://www.markloveless.net. There you can read utter nonsense, and some extensive blogging on my #solar setup (no electric bill!) here in Texas. Yes this #hippy lives in Texas, I hate sports yet live 3.4 miles away from that atrocious giant stadium here in Arlington where the Cowboys are.
Last Monday, while I was waiting for another female fronted band to start playing (Culk, go and check them out too), they put an extremely interesting playlist. I saved one song from it and this is my first contribution today:
From a concert, to another concert like if it were the goose game. However, while Culk was on the dreamy, ethereal side, my next gig is not only also female fronted but also "mosh-material"
Why do I keep forgetting that Stabbing Westward exist ? Had a playlist on for the last couple of hours and it's been great ! Also today I learned that they covered The Cure's Burn . Anyway here's a nice happy tune by Stabbing Westward. https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=6upMO-j4Q04#IndustrialMetal
I'm so excited 🤩 I have the honour of being an advanced listener of the new album by Jessica B. Kelly & The Void Conspiracy
I'll post a review of the new album in the next few days on the @SmilodonMetallicum account.
The album will be released at the end of November, but if you can't wait until then you should go check out Jessica's music website, and Mastodon account.
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Al Jourgensen Admits Ministry's End Is Near - 'We've Perfected Our Genre'
Al Jourgensen discusses Ministry's new album, 'HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES,' and what the future holds for the band he created in 1981.
Black Light Discipline - Self Control [Cyber Metal] [2012] (www.youtube.com)
from Against Each Other (2012)