Name: Toronto 1986
Brand: Ministry

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CLE2734.1

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Colour

Green

Colour details

Green and Black Splatter

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Gatefold jacket.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

889466273414

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

CLE3296BB.1

Blue

Blue/Black Splatter

2023-01-27

889466329616

1 / Blue / Extended format: Yes / LP

Artist

Ministry

Genre US

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label US

Cleopatra

Ministry is the brainchild of Al Jourgensen. Beginning in 1981, playing synth-pop with a strong disco influence, they released their first 12" on Wax Trax! Records, before being signed to Arista and releasing their debut "With Sympathy," in 1983. After a falling out with the label and the direction of the project, Jourgensen returned to Wax Trax! to release a series of 12" Singles, including "Everyday Is Halloween," which became an instant club favorite and would go on to become one of the band's most popular songs.

Jourgensen then signed to Sire/Warner Bros. Records in 1985. Ministry's second album "Twitch," was produced by Adrian Sherwood, and had a more menacing sound reflecting Jourgensen's interest in the international EBM (electronic body music) scene of the time. Ministry's third album, "The Land of Rape and Honey," (1988), was both a natural evolution of their aesthetic and a sharp break with previous pop tendencies and, with the arrival of Paul Barker and other new members, Ministry's sound developed into a crossover between EBM, industrial, and heavy metal.

Their experimentation with heavy metal continued with subsequent albums like "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste" (1989) where guitar took on much more importance to their sound. Ministry's breakthrough album, "Ps

This vintage concert by industrial legends Ministry in the midst of their self-reinvention from new wave darlings to the formidable aggro-machine they would become! Recorded at the RPM club in Toronto, Ontario, these never before heard performances include the proto-industrial classics "Every Day Is Halloween," "All Day," "My Possession" and more! 

Toronto 1986

Music US

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