Psalm 69 - Ministry > Reviews

Advantages: Influential, Very heavy, doesn't take itself to seriously, Jesus built my hotrod
Disadvantages: Can be slightly over the top

...music into the mainstream although Psalm 69 is based more around massive 2 dimensional guitar riff's than NIN have ever been. This album was released in 1992 and at the time there was nothing else available that sounded even remotely similar. Ministry, along with their various offshoot bands such as 1000 Homo DJ's and The Revolting Cock's (beat that for a quality band name) paved the way for bands such as Korn to become as huge as they are today but ... Read review

Advantages: Heavy, agressive and unique
Disadvantages: The legacy

Psalm 69 (The way to succeed and the way to suck eggs) or the symbols album was the most commercially successful album that Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker have released in their careers. It was also the album alongside Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral that saw the crossover of industrial music into the rock mainstream. You could also blame it the same way you can blame The Beatles for Oasis, for a succession of sub standard metal bands suddenly ... Read review

Advantages: It is a dam sight better than any nu-metal
Disadvantages: They unfortunatley Created Nu-metal

Not all that is comercialy sucessfull is good and this is Ministrys most comercialy sucessfull album, but arguabilly the worst, probabally because it was a transition between the more heavily "dance" oreanted direction of the 2 previous albums (The Land of Rape and Honey and The Mind Is A terrible thing to taste) to a more metal/ rock oreantated sound. Both of the previous albums which would be a much more sensible purchase. The first half of the ... Read review