The Land of Rape and Honey
Studio album by Ministry
Released	October 11, 1988
Recorded	1987
Genre	Industrial Industrial metal
Length	46:31
Label	Sire
Producer	Hypo Luxa, Hermes Pan, Eddie Echo
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Ministry chronology
Twitch (1986) The Land of Rape and Honey (1988) The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste (1989)

The Land of Rape and Honey is an album by the industrial metal band Ministry. The album was released in 1988 through 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. Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey album cover. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Ministry is an influential, Grammy-nominated American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. ... is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ... In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Sire Records Company is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Al Jourgensen (born October 9, 1958 in Havana, Cuba), is an American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. ... Paul Barker (writer) Paul Barker (born February 8, 1958 in Palo Alto, California), was bassist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4. ... Ministry is an influential, Grammy-nominated American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. ... Twitch is an album by industrial band Ministry. ... The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste is an album by the band Ministry. ... An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. ... Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ... Ministry is an influential, Grammy-nominated American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. ... Sire Records Company is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. ...

The album title comes from the slogan on a mug from Tisdale, Saskatchewan, whose motto is "The Land of Rape and Honey", the local economy being based on the agricultural products rapeseed and honey. Tisdale is a business centre for the rich agricultural area of northeastern Saskatchewan in Canada. ... This article is about the Canadian province. ... Binomial name Brassica napus L. Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as Rape, Oilseed Rape, Rapa, Rapaseed and (one particular cultivar) Canola, is a bright yellow flowering member (related to mustard) of the family Brassicaceae. ... For other uses, see Honey (disambiguation). ...

The track "Stigmata" is featured in the science fiction thriller "Hardware", released in 1990, which was written and directed by Richard Stanley.

Track listing

1. "Stigmata" (Al Jourgensen) – 5:45
2. "The Missing" (Ministry) – 2:55
3. "Deity" (Ministry) – 3:20
4. "Golden Dawn" (Ministry) – 5:42
   • Samples
     • "You have been 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 Second Aethyr"
5. "Destruction" (Ministry) – 3:30
6. "Hizbollah" (Ministry) – 3:58
7. "The Land of Rape and Honey" (Jourgensen/Paul Barker) – 5:10
8. "You Know What You Are" (Ministry) – 4:43
   • Samples
     • "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"
9. "I Prefer" (Ministry/Chris Connelly) – 2:15
10. "Flashback" (Ministry) – 4:50
    • Sample
      • "Now look man!", "Do It", "Everybody's got to die sometime", "hurts real bad inside" - "Platoon"
11. "Abortive" (Ministry) – 4:23
    • Sample
      • "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

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Personnel

• Keith Fluffy Auerbach – engineer
• Eddie Echo – producer
• Tom Baker – mastering
• Paul Barker – bass, engineer
• Chris Connelly – vocals
• Julian Herzfeld – engineer
• Alain Jourgensen – guitar, vocals, engineer
• Bill Rieflin – drums
• Steve Spapperi – engineer

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