Ministry / Land of R*pe and Honey

The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by the American industrial metal band Ministry, released on October 11, 1988, by Sire Records. It is considered a landmark and genre-defining album that established the industrial metal sound. The album marked a significant departure from the band's earlier synth-pop and EBM styles, fully embracing heavy metal guitars, distorted vocals, and electronic sampling with a raw, punk attitude. Notable songs include the single "Stigmata," which was featured in the film Hardware, "The Missing," and "Flashback".