{"id":15977,"date":"2013-08-02T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2013-12-31T22:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T22:44:51","slug":"album-review-ministry-enjoy-the-quiet-live-at-wacken-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-ministry-enjoy-the-quiet-live-at-wacken-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTRY – Enjoy The Quiet: Live At Wacken 2012 (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINISTRY
Enjoy The Quiet: Live At Wacken 2012<\/strong><\/span>
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\nUDR Music (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hot on the trail of Ministry\u2019s final studio album, From Beer To Eternity<\/em><\/a> (2013), comes Enjoy The Quiet<\/em>. This three-disc set includes Ministry\u2019s 2012 set at the Wacken Open Air Festival as well as a separate disc containing their set at the festival from 2006 (their retirement tour). Rounding it all out is a DVD that includes both shows as well. <\/p>\n

Since the 2012 show is the centrepiece, let\u2019s talk about it first. Make no mistake, 2012 was a great year for Ministry. The band sound amazing and they are like maniacs on stage.<\/p>\n

The show opens with the scathing, but uncannily truthful, \u2018Ghouldiggers\u2019. The law of the land is laid when it\u2019s pointed out that Al Jourgensen is worth more dead than alive, and the band rip into \u2018No W\u2019 from there. While this wouldn\u2019t have been my first choice to have this early in the set, the band are so intense that they force me to like it. They move about the laser lit stage like banshees and the massive crowd can\u2019t get enough. Even just listening to the audio disc, you would get this sense of urgency and rebirth that makes you feel like Ministry might rule again.<\/p>\n

\u2018LiesLiesLies\u2019 and \u201899 Percenters\u2019 come back to back in a tour de force that lays waste to pretty much everything, transcending it\u2019s political snarkiness and becoming more of a commentary on today\u2019s existence in the free world. \u2018Relapse\u2019 is another excellent moment here but, of course, the chaotic flagship song \u2018Just One Fix\u2019 takes the cake, sounding more relevant now than it did when it was first written and sending the tiring crowd back into a frenzy. <\/p>\n

The show from 2006 is quite a bit different from the 2012 show, proving how different Ministry had become prior to \u201cretirement\u201d. The band look tired on stage and the overall sound is much more muddled in a punk metal kind of way. Everything from the 2012 show is sleek and well thought out and, in contrast, this show\u2019s goal seems to be to pummel the audience with sound. The stage is chaotic and the set is dominated by the punk pit overtones that dominated the band\u2019s new millennium work. Everything here just sounds crazier and angrier, which is a good thing on songs like the devastating \u2018Fear Is Big Business\u2019, which opens the show. \u2018The Great Satan\u2019 is like a wall of sound with disruptive soloing and fast-paced drumming that beats the listener down. \u2018Just One Fix\u2019, \u2018LiesLiesLies\u2019, \u2018Rio Grande Blood\u2019, and a few more appear here as well but with a noticeably more metal bent. It\u2019s obvious that Jourgensen had two very different ideas in mind when performing these shows. \u2018Psalm 69\u2019 closes the show and, although the sound is a bit hollow, it still shakes out as one of the band\u2019s most powerful offerings.<\/p>\n

The DVD is just as enjoyable as the audio here, maybe even more enjoyable when it comes to the 2006 show. While I\u2019ve described it a bit when talking about the audio, I will add that the 2012 show is huge. The band have big screen stuff going all the time and the light work is top notch as well as the band sounding way better than the 2006 version of Ministry. The 2006 show is more low key, without all the flash or grandeur that makes them seem like metal gods in the latter show. The lights are dim and there are a ton of strobes. The whole look is much angrier, fitting well with the idea that this would be the band\u2019s painful, unwanted goodbye. It\u2019s just a darker edge overall, which will certainly appeal more to fans of the band\u2019s new millennium work than their older material.<\/p>\n

Overall, this set is well worth your time. The 2006 show is a bonus and it kinda feels like that. The 2012 show is the centrepiece and when you couple that with From Beer To Eternity<\/em>, it truly makes you wish Ministry would stick around awhile longer.<\/p>\n

Mark Fisher<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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