The Land of Rape and Honey

The Land of Rape and Honey
Studio album by Ministry
Released	October 11, 1988
Recorded	1985 at Southern Studios, London ("Abortive") 1987–1988 at Chicago Trax Studios
Genre	Industrial metal, industrial rock
Length	40:24 (LP) 46:39 (CD)
Label	Sire/Warner Bros. (25799)
Producer	Hypo Luxa, Hermes Pan, Eddie Echo
Ministry chronology
Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984) (1987) The Land of Rape and Honey (1988) The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989)

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Robert Christgau	B+
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The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1988 on Sire Records. The image on the cover appears to be an electronically processed version of a photo of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla sub-camp of Buchenwald. This album is the first to take full steps onto the grounds of industrial metal, as opposed to their previous electronic music albums.

The album title comes from the slogan of Tisdale, Saskatchewan, whose motto is "The Land of Rape and Honey", the local economy being based on the agricultural products rapeseed and honey. The band chose the name after seeing the slogan on a souvenir mug.

The track "Stigmata" is featured in Richard Stanley's 1990 science fiction thriller Hardware, although the band shown apparently performing the track is actually Gwar.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in January 1996. The album was out of print for a few years in the early 2000s, but was re-issued by Wounded Bird Records in 2007. This re-issue is misprinted, labeling the title track "The Land of Milk and Honey."

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ministry. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Stigmata"	5:45
2.	"The Missing"	2:55
3.	"Deity"	3:20
4.	"Golden Dawn"	5:42
5.	"Destruction"	3:30
6.	"Hizbollah"	3:58
7.	"The Land of Rape and Honey"	5:10
8.	"You Know What You Are"	4:43
9.	"I Prefer"	2:15
10.	"Flashback"	4:50
11.	"Abortive"	4:23

• Tracks 6 and 9 were bonus tracks on the CD release of the album.

Samples

4. "Golden Dawn"
   • "You have been found guilty of commerce with the devil," "State your confession," "Confess! Confess!" "The Anti-Christ" - "The Devils"
   • [chanting] - Aleister Crowley, from his "Call of the Second Aethyr"
   • [chanting] - Israel Regardie, from his "Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram"
8. "You Know What You Are"
   • "You know what you are" - "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
   • [Macabre Laugh] - "A Fistful of Dollars"
   • "Die, Motherfucker!" - "Aliens"
   • "C'mon, motherfuckers!" "Dance, motherfucker!" - "Platoon"
10. "Flashback"
    • "Now hold up, man!" "Do it," "Everybody's got to die sometime," "I'm hurtin' real bad inside" - "Platoon"
11. "Abortive"
    • "T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4; we've got the main engine start—we have main...", "America's first space shuttle!" "And the shuttle has cleared the tower." - NASA

Personnel

Ministry

• Alain Jourgensen – vocals (1-3, 7-10), guitar, programming, production (1-10), engineer
• Paul Barker – bass, keyboards, programming, production (1-10), engineer

Additional personnel

• William Rieflin – programming, keyboards, guitar, background vocals (1)
• Chris Connelly – background vocals (2 & 3)
• Eddie Echo – production (11)
• Steve Spapperi – engineer
• Julian Herzfeld – engineer
• Keith "Fluffy" Auerbach – engineer
• "Dog" – album cover
• "Ill" – album cover
• Brian Shanley – album cover

Chart positions

Chart (1988)	Peak position
The Billboard 200	164