Animositisomina is the eighth studio album by industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 band Ministry

Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

, released in 2003. It is the group's first studio album and second overall release through Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records

Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world...

, following the live album Sphinctour

Sphinctour

Sphinctour is a live CD/DVD/VHS release by the industrial band Ministry released in 2002. It contains various tracks recorded on their 1996 world tour in support of the album Filth Pig.-Track listing:*Track 5 and 13 not included on CD releases...

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The title is a palindrome

Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction, with general allowances for adjustments to punctuation and word dividers....

, made of the word "animosity" spelled without the final letter and both forward and backward. It is also very similar to Aoxomoxoa

Aoxomoxoa

Aoxomoxoa is the third studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was originally titled Earthquake Country. Many Deadheads consider this era of the Dead to be the experimental apex of the band's history. It is also the first album with Tom Constanten as an official member of the band...

, which is an album by the Grateful Dead. According to an interview on Fuse's

Fuse TV

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 Uranium

Uranium (TV series)

Uranium is an American television program about heavy metal which aired on Fuse TV in the early 2000s. After establishing herself as the host of MMUSA's Tastemakers program, Juliya Chernetsky, along with network producers, created Uranium as an outlet for the broad range of heavy metal subgenres...

, Jourgensen was bored at the time he was coming up with an album title.

"The Light Pours Out of Me" was written and originally recorded by Magazine

Magazine (band)

Magazine are an English post-punk group active from 1977 to 1981, then reformed in 2009. Their debut single, "Shot by Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time...

 for their Real Life

Real Life (Magazine album)

Real Life is the debut album by English post-punk band Magazine, released in April 1978 on Virgin Records.- Track listing :- Personnel :* Howard Devoto – vocals* John McGeoch – guitar and saxophone* Barry Adamson – bass guitar...

album in 1978. Ministry did perform the song several times in concerts in the late 1980s, but it was never released or recorded officially.

It is notable for being the last album with Paul Barker

Paul Barker

Paul Barker , also referred to as Hermes Pan, is the former bass guitarist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004...

, as well as being the last by Ministry to play in their traditional industrial metal style before switching to a more thrash-oriented style with their next album, Houses of the Molé

Houses of the Molé

Houses of the Molé is the ninth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry. The album was released on June 21, 2004 internationally and a day later in the United States through Sanctuary Records.-Album information:...

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Track listing

1. "Animosity" – 4:36 (Jourgensen, Barker, Brody, Grossman)
2. "Unsung" – 3:11 (Jourgensen, Barker, Svitek, Washam)
3. "Piss" – 5:10 (Jourgensen, Barker, Svitek, Washam)
4. "Lockbox" – 4:45 (Jourgensen, Barker, Brody, Svitek, Washam)
5. "Broken" - 4:52 (Jourgensen, Barker, Brody)
6. "The Light Pours Out of Me" - 4:26 (Devoto, Shelley, McGeoch)
7. "Shove" - 5:53 (Jourgensen, Barker, Brody)
8. "Impossible" - 7:43 (Jourgensen, Barker, Svitek, Washam, Kinslow)
9. "Stolen" - 4:09 (Jourgensen, Barker, Brody)
10. "Leper" - 9:00 (Jourgensen, Barker, Brody)

Ministry

• Al Jourgensen
  Al Jourgensen
  Alain David Jourgensen , is a Cuban-American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa , Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan...
  
   – vocals (1-8), lead/slide/rhythm guitar
  Guitar
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  s (1-8, 10), keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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   (1, 4-6, 8, 10), de-programming, production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Paul Barker
  Paul Barker
  Paul Barker , also referred to as Hermes Pan, is the former bass guitarist, producer and engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , programming
  Programming (music)
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  , keyboards (2, 5, 7, 9, 10), vocals (9), rhythm guitar (5, 7, 9), production

Additional personnel

• Max Brody
  Max Brody
  Max Brody , is an American musician based outside of Austin, TX, best known as the one-time percussionist/saxophonist for the hard rock band Ministry.- Biography :...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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   and percussion, programming (1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10), sax
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
   (9)
• Rey Washam
  Rey Washam
  Rey Washam is a drummer who has been performing for more than 20 years. He has collaborated with many bands, the most notable of which include: Scratch Acid, Rapeman, Ministry, the Big Boys, Helios Creed, the Didjits, Lard, and Tad and Butthole Surfers offshoot Daddy Longhead...
  
   – drums and percussion (2–4, 8)
• Louis Svitek
  Louis Svitek
  Louis Svitek is a musician and former guitarist for a number of bands including M.O.D., Ministry, Pigface, Mind Funk, The Hollow steps and Project .44...
  
   – rhythm guitar (2–4, 8)
• Adam Grossman
  Adam Grossman
  Adam Grossman is the guitarist and singer of the Texas-based Industrial metal band Skrew and the crossover thrash band Angkor Wat, both of which he co-founded with his friend Danny Lohner...
  
   – rhythm guitar (1)
• Angela Lukacin-Jourgensen – background vocals (4)
• Katherine Kinslow – chorus vocals (8)
• Justin Leeah - engineer
• Joey Cazares - assistant engineer
• Bobby Torres - assistant engineer
• Paul Elledge - art & direction
• Leasha Elledge - art & direction
• Tim Bruce - design
• Tom Baker - mastering

Chart positions

Chart (2003)	Peak position
The Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	157
French Albums Chart Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry...	125
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	93
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	186