The Land Of Rape & Honey (CD)
Ministry
Amoeba Review
10/02/2012
Ministry’s The Land of Rape and Honey can be divided into two parts. The first few songs of the album appeals to metal’s sensibilities, while the remainder pushes (with unrelenting force) into Ministry’s more often associated industrial genre specs. A song like “The Missing” is both, depending on how you crook your head, while the pounding of “Golden Dawn” adds jagged smokestacks into the industrial landscape. The unified thing is this: The Land of Rape and Honey is dark and menacing, and metalheads and industrial goths can agree that this shit is dramatic nihilism at its finest. The whole album has an angry pulse. Also contains the iconic hits from Ministry’s decorated catalog, “Stigmata” and “Deity.”











