Ministrydid more than any other band to popularize industrial-metal, injecting large doses of punky, over-the-top aggression and roaring heavy metal guitar riffs that helped their music find favor with metal and alternative audiences outside of industrial's cult fan base. That's not to say Ministry had a commercial or generally accessible sound: they were unremittingly intense, abrasive, pounding, and repetitive, and not always guitar-oriented (samples, synthesizers, and tape effects were a primary focus just as often as guitars and distorted vocals). However, both live and in the studio, they achieved a huge, crushing sound that put most of their contemporaries in aggressive musical genres to shame; plus, founder and frontman Al Jourgensengave the group a greater aura of style and theater than other industrial bands, who seemed rather faceless when compared with Jourgensen's leather-clad cowboy/biker look and the edgy shock tactics of such videos as .
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Ministry

Cold you know the yolk its spreading from you laugh as people scatter
bout surrounded by a veil of stars you realize your life is dark earth
Gets colder every day if scientists could have their way theyd study us
From far away and watch as peoples minds decay cold your bodys in the
Hands of fools with swimming pools and low iqs theres nothing to see,
Nothing to do buy your stocks and sell your jewels bill collectors stole my
Mail my wife and kids are all for sale I hope to God I go to jail and no
One can come up with bail cold life I cant control my buried thoughts the
Slightest thing makes me distraught Im like the people I once fought my
Every actions being bought robot trainers earn their pay as mutant kids go
Out to play its such a pretty pretty day with orange nights and days of
Grey cold Ive now become a nervous wreck Im getting closer to my death i
Keep expecting my last breath as all my friends just laugh and jest the
Earth is such a filthy place and human such an awful race and Id rather
Live in outer space where death goes at a slower pace cold life