The Land of Rape and Honey

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AllMusic
Robert Christgau	B+
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1988 on Sire Records. This album is the band's first attempt at mixing industrial with rock, as opposed to their previous albums which were more electronically influenced. Only the first three tracks use guitars extensively, though

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 tracks are written 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 are being found guilty of covenants with the devil," "State your confession," "Confess! Confess!" "The Anti-Christ" - The Devils
   • [chanting] - Aleister Crowley, from his "Call of the First Aethyr"
   • [chanting] - Israel Regardie, quoting the English translation of the First Enochian Key.
6. "Hizbollah"
   • "Kad Ataka" - Fairuz
8. "You Know What You Are"
   • "You know what you are" - closing dialog by Tuco from 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

• Al 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" (a pseudonym of Al Jourgenson) – album cover
• "Ill" – album cover
• Brian Shanley – album cover

Chart positions

Chart (1988)	Peak position
The Billboard 200	164