Ministry - Psalm 69 (Expanded Edition) [2LP]

Ministry's Psalm 69 returns as a 180-gram expanded 2LP, with the full 1992 album on the first disc and a second LP of rare tracks, edits and remixes.

The band's fifth studio album is the moment industrial music collided head-on with metal and came out on top. Produced by Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker under their Hypo Luxa and Hermes Pan aliases, it fused machine-gun guitars, political samples and pounding programmed drums into something heavier and more chaotic than anything around it. For a generation of metal fans, it became the gateway into industrial music.

"N.W.O." skewers political doublespeak over a relentless riff, and "Just One Fix" is a grinding, harrowing ride through addiction. "Jesus Built My Hotrod" brings in Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes for a deranged, breakneck rant that sounds like a car crash set to music. The bonus disc adds "TV Song," the 12-inch edit of "Just One Fix," an extended dance mix of "N.W.O." and the "Quick Fix" remix, among others.

Abrasive and darkly funny, Psalm 69 still sounds like a warning siren more than three decades on. This expanded edition gives longtime fans a reason to revisit it at full volume, with plenty of rarely heard material to dig through.