Stigmata (song)

"Stigmata"

Single by Ministry

from the album The Land of Rape and Honey

Released

August 1988

Genre

Industrial metal^[1]

Length

5:45

Ministry singles chronology

"Over the Shoulder"
(1986)

"Stigmata"
(1988)

"Burning Inside"
(1989)

"Stigmata" is a song by American industrial metal band Ministry. Written by frontman Al Jourgensen, it is the opening track and the only single released from their third studio album, 1988’s The Land of Rape and Honey. The song features distorted vocals, guitars and compressed drum machine loops.^[2] The song was an underground hit.^[3] The music video—which was said to get a regular airing on MTV^[4]—features gritty black and white machinery, gears, symbols, the band playing live, Paul Barker on a motorcycle, strobe-like montages of eyes (which are the only elements presented in color), and what appear to be neo-Nazi skinheads. The song was said to be Ministry's "finest moment until 1992".^[5]

The track was featured in the episode “Line of Fire” of Miami Vice and later featured in the 1990 science fiction horror movie Hardware and the 1995 Hong Kong action comedy film Rumble in the Bronx. The 2017 action movie Atomic Blonde (taking place in 1989) features a cover of the song by Marilyn Manson. The 12-inch single remix of the song was featured in the 2006 video game, Tony Hawk's Project 8. The song was also featured as an unlockable track in the 2009 video game Brütal Legend.^[6] In August 2010, the song became available for download in the Rock Band series of games.^[7]

In his 2013 autobiography, Ministry: The Lost Gospels..., Jourgensen writes that although "Stigmata" is one of Ministry's most popular songs, he hates it for being "too simplistic" and for its use of sampled rather than actual guitars. He wrote "Stigmata" at the last minute after realising he needed another song to complete the album.^[8]^: 86

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Track listing

No.	Title	Credit	Length
1.	"Stigmata" (Remix)	Ministry	6:57
2.	"Tonight We Murder"	Ministry/Nardiello	6:02

Personnel

Ministry

Al Jourgensen - vocals ("Stigmata"), guitar, programming, production, engineer
Paul Barker - bass, programming, production, engineer

Additional personnel

William Rieflin - drums ("Tonight We Murder"), programming
Frank Nardiello - vocals ("Tonight We Murder"), cover painting
Brian Shanley - cover design

References

^ Greg Prato. "Twitched - Ministry". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 1, 2017. While nothing here is exactly on par with such industrial metal classics as 'Stigmata' or 'Thieves,' you can certainly see that the seeds for future triumphs are planted on the album-opening 'Just Like You' and the Nine Inch Nails-esque 'We Believe.'
^ Charlton, Katherine (1994). Rock Music Styles: A History (revised ed.). Madison, Wis.: Brown & Benchmark. pp. 283–284. ISBN 0-697-12493-2 – via the Internet Archive.
^ Steve Huey. "Stigmata - Ministry". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
^ Glickman, Simon (1994). "Ministry". In Rubiner, Julia M. (ed.). Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of The People in Music. Vol. 10. Detroit / Washington, D.C. / London: Gale Research. p. 165. ISBN 0-8103-2218-8. ISSN 1044-2197 – via the Internet Archive.
^ Fontenoy, Richard (2003). "Ministry". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. p. 676. ISBN 9781858284576. Retrieved October 4, 2018 – via Google Books.
^ "Brütal Legend (2009 Video Game) Soundtracks". IMDb.
^ Staff (August 6, 2010). "Rock Band Gets More Tracks From Ministry". IGN. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
^ Jourgensen, Al & Wiederhorn, Jon (July 9, 2013). Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306822186 – via the Internet Archive.

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Studio albums	With Sympathy Twitch The Land of Rape and Honey The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs Filth Pig Dark Side of the Spoon Animositisomina Houses of the Molé Rio Grande Blood The Last Sucker Relapse From Beer to Eternity AmeriKKKant Moral Hygiene Hopiumforthemasses
Live albums	In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up Sphinctour Adios... Puta Madres Toronto 1986
Compilations and remixes	Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984) Tapes of Wrath Greatest Fits Early Trax Side Trax Rantology Rio Grande Dub Ya Cover Up The Last Dubber MiXXXes of the Molé Every Day Is Halloween: The Anthology Undercover
Singles	"Cold Life" "I Wanted to Tell Her" "(Every Day Is) Halloween" "Over the Shoulder" "Stigmata" "Burning Inside" "Jesus Built My Hotrod" "N.W.O." "Just One Fix" "The Fall" "Lay Lady Lay" "Bad Blood" "No W" "Keys to the City" "Thunderstruck" "99 Percenters" "Double Tap" "PermaWar"
Other songs	"Thieves" "LiesLiesLies"
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