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Ministry and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult Re-releases

By Anonymous
New Ministry and TKK re-releases with added tracks and new remixes

The Ministry re-release is an awesome 5 cd set that spans Al Jourgensen's career. The first album is Ministry: Early Trax which consists of all of the early Ministry 12" singles and adds four previously unreleased tracks from the same period.

The second is Ministry: Side Trax which consists of various Ministry side projects like Pailhead with Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat, 1000 Homo DJ's which is a collaboration with Trent Reznor (NIN), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) and others, PTP which is a collaboration with Chris Connelly and Acid Horse, a collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire.

The last three are all Revolting Cocks, or RevCo albums. Big Sexy Land was their debut album and now includes an extra bonus track. You Goddamned Son Of A Bitch- Live At The Metro Chicago is their legendary live album expanded to 2 Cds including 2 extra live songs recorded in Glasgow, one of which is their version of Public Image's P.I.L. The final album of the set is the classic Beers, Steers & Queers with four added bonus tracks featuring their revelatory version of "(Let's Get) Physical."

The My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult re-release is two cds. The first is The Beast of TKK which is a 16 song collection featuring all of the best TKK songs like Sex On Wheelz and 'Cuz It's Hot.

The second is Diamonds & Daggerz an all new remix collection featuring new versions of the Kult's most notorious tracks.

You can check out two of the songs here:

Ministry- Nature of Love [Cruelty Mix]:

http://rykodisc.com/audio/Ministry_NatureLoveCmix.ram

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain For Satan:

http://rykodisc.com/audio/TKKult_DaisyChainSatan.ram