Ministry

Example Album: Twitch

Location: USA

Years Active: 1981-present

Style: EBM, scrap metal and industrial accents

    Ministry is a post-industrial and metal band lead by Al Jourgenson from Chicago. They are known for being one of the founders of a genre known as industrial metal which they thoroughly developed in the late 80's and 90's. Early on, their music had a heavy synthpop sound, though it was during their second record, Twitch, where they leaned predominantly into EBM.

    Twitch is an excellent example of mid-80's EBM, but what piques our interest are the large amount of scrap metal and industrial samples used as accents throughout the record. These are some tasty sampled noises, which lends well to the EBM atmosphere on this record.

    Unfortunately Ministry never really explored this sound further on records, which makes Twitch more of a standout record of their discography.