The old map of hell


Here's the old map of hell, Ministry's 3rd album, The Land of Rape and Honey. One of the first industrial metal albums, it sounds like it was mixed and mastered through a broken megaphone. 

Don't be too put off by the title, that was the actual slogan of Tisdale, Saskatchewan in the 80s because their entire economy was based on rapeseed and honey. Rapeseed is part of the mustard/cabbage family, and it's a major source of vegetable oil and biodiesel. It's literally second only to soy beans in terms of world protein consumption. I may not like Branstad's legacy of selling the whole state of Iowa to corporate agribusiness, but the fact that Trump took a dump on his entire life's work of selling Iowa soy to China instead of letting Brazil cut down even more rainforest to farm it for them is pretty terrible. True story, Branstad supported Trump, was handed the Ambassadorship, and then Trump started the trade war and ruined the whole thing. Brazil's chopping down trees double speed as we speak.

Where was i? Oh yeah, Al thought seeing the phrase on a coffee mug was so hilarious he switched from synthpop in a fake British accent to attaching a power drill to the meat grinder and running his vocal mic through a distortion pedal. 

Sounds purdy to me.



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