Sphinctour is a live CD/DVD/VHS release by the industrial 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 2002. It contains various tracks recorded on their 1996 world tour in support of the album Filth Pig

Filth Pig

Filth Pig is the sixth studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1996 on Warner Bros. Records. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Jourgensen was described as a filthy pig by MP Teddy Taylor...

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Track listing

• Track 5 and 13 not included on CD releases

Album release

The original objective of Sphinctour was as a home video release, though a CD version was also made. There are no discernible differences audio-wise from the DVD, although, like their In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up

-Video:A companion home video of the concert also exists, featuring the same tracks as the audio except it is bookended by two "bonus" songs. The beginning of the concert starts with a very textured dual drum jam than segues into "Breathe". After playing Stigmata, Jello Biafra comes on stage and...

release, two tracks were omitted from the CD release.

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, mandolin
  Electric mandolin
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   ("Reload"), harmonica
  Harmonica
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   ("Filth Pig"), guitar
  Electric guitar
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   ("Just 1 Fix", "N.W.O."), production
  Record producer
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• 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 guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , keyboard bass
  Keyboard bass
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   ("The Fall"), production
• 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
  Drum kit
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• 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...
  
   - guitar
• Duane Buford - keyboards
• Zlatko Hukic - guitar

Video personnel

• Jeffrey Kinart - television director
  Television director
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  , production
  Television producer
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  , editor
• Doug Freel - director, editor
• Tom Tuntlend - assistant editor
• Todd Darling - post production supervisor
  Supervisor
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