The Land of Rape and Honey

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The Land of Rape and Honey
Studio album by Ministry
Released	October 11, 1988
Recorded	1987
Genre	Industrial metal
Length	46:31
Label	Sire/Warner Bros. Records 25799
Producer	Hypo Luxa Hermes Pan Eddie Echo
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Ministry chronology
Twitch (1986) The Land of Rape and Honey (1988) The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989)

The Land of Rape and Honey is the third album by the industrial metal band Ministry. The album was released in 1988 through Sire Records. The image on the cover appears to be an electronically-processed version of a photo of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla sub-camp of Buchenwald.

The album title comes from the slogan on a mug from Tisdale, Saskatchewan, whose motto is "The Land of Rape and Honey", the local economy being based on the agricultural products rapeseed and honey.

The track "Stigmata" is featured in the science fiction thriller Hardware, released in 1990, which was written and directed by Richard Stanley.

The Land of Rape and Honey was certified Gold by the RIAA in January 1996. The album went out of print for a few years in the early 2000s, but was recently re-issued by Wounded Bird Records. This re-issue is misprinted, labeling the title track "The Land of Milk and Honey."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Stigmata" (Al Jourgensen) – 5:45
2. "The Missing" (Ministry) – 2:55
3. "Deity" (Ministry) – 3:20
4. "Golden Dawn" (Ministry) – 5:42
   • Samples
     • "You have been found guilty of covenants with the devil," "State your confession," "Confess! Confess!" "The Anti-Christ" - "The Devils"
     • [chanting] - Aleister Crowley, from his "Call of the Second Aethyr"
5. "Destruction" (Ministry) – 3:30
6. "Hizbollah" (Ministry) – 3:58
7. "The Land of Rape and Honey" (Jourgensen/Paul Barker) – 5:10
8. "You Know What You Are" (Ministry) – 4:43
   • Samples
     • "You know what you are" - "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
     • [Macabre Laugh] - "A Fistful of Dollars"
     • "Die, Motherfucker!" - "Aliens"
     • "C'mon, motherfuckers!" "Dance, motherfucker!" - "Platoon"
9. "I Prefer" (Ministry/Chris Connelly) – 2:15
10. "Flashback" (Ministry) – 4:50
    • Sample
      • "Now hold up, man!" "Do it," "Everybody's got to die sometime," "Hurts real bad inside" - "Platoon"
11. "Abortive" (Ministry) – 4:23
    • Sample
      • "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4; we've got the main engine start—we have main...", "America's first space shuttle!" "And the shuttle has cleared the tower." - NASA

[edit] Personnel

• Keith Fluffy Auerbach – engineer
• Eddie Echo – producer
• Tom Baker – mastering
• Paul Barker – bass, engineer
• Chris Connelly – vocals
• Julian Herzfeld – engineer
• Alain Jourgensen – guitar, vocals, engineer
• Bill Rieflin – drums
• Steve Spapperi – engineer

[edit] Charting Positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1988	The Billboard 200	164

Ministry

Al Jourgensen

Tommy Victor | John Bechdel | Tony Campos | Aaron Rossi | Mike Scaccia | Sin Quirin

Paul Barker | Bill Rieflin | Chris Connelly | Kevin Ogilvie | Martin Atkins | Louis Svitek | Rey Washam | William Tucker | Max Brody | John Monte | Mark Baker | Stephen George | Paul Raven | Joey Jordison | Dave Ellefson | Jimmy DeGrasso

Discography

Studio albums: With Sympathy | Twitch | The Land of Rape and Honey | The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste | Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs | Filth Pig | Dark Side of the Spoon | Animositisomina | Houses of the Molé | Rio Grande Blood | The Last Sucker

Live, Remix and Compilation albums: Twelve Inch Singles | In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up | Greatest Fits | Sphinctour | Early Trax | Side Trax | Rantology | Rio Grande Dub Ya | Cover Up

Related Bands: Special Affect | Revolting Cocks | Pailhead | Lard | 1000 Homo DJs | PTP | Acid Horse | Pink Anvil | Lead Into Gold | Pigface | Skrew Society 1

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