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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Well I had this dream one night, I was like, I was lying on my like,
stupid ??? capsual, that, that,
an um, it was like really hot, ok like, start of the summer,
an, hot, its really hot, an I had like, like no fan, or anything,
ya know fine, an I had this weirdest, weirdest, weirdest, like nightmare,
ya know how you have some nightmares, when there like, there like, dreams,
but their not dreams, their like real? Ya know? An like you feel, it felt alive,
when your dreaming, you feel alive, when your dreaming.
An I had this dream, when this angel came up, just, like, up my fire escape,
cause I don't have any bars on my windows, cause I don't belive in bars on my windows,
an, she was there in my room, just lying there, she came, and she kissed me.
And I woke up, and I must have cum.
"DO YOU BELIVE IN ANGELS"? ......................"NO"!