4CDs – UK Import
“Bad Blood” packages together four classic albums from Ministry’s time at Sanctuary imprint Mayan.
2002’s ‘Sphinctour’ captured their live sound across a series of dates on their 1996 tour to support the ‘Filth Pig’ album; recorded straight to DAT tape from the mixing desk, without any further mixing or studio trickery.
‘Animositisomina’ from 2003 was their eighth studio record and first studio set for Sanctuary/Mayan, and features nine original tracks, plus a cover of Magazine’s ‘The Light Pours Out of Me’.
Their ninth album, ‘Houses Of The Molé’ saw the band move away from a purely industrial sound to a more thrash metal style. Anti-George Bush in theme, Ministry mainstay Al Jourgensen saw it as “something of a rebirth”, being the first for some years to not feature Paul Barker.
The band’s final release for the label was 2005’s remix compilation, ‘Rantology’.