“Burning Inside” by Ministry

"Burning Inside" was the only single Ministry pulled from The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste, their 1989 Sire album, and it's a blast furnace of a track. Al Jourgensen sings and plays guitar, Paul Barker holds down the bass, and the two produced it themselves, welding metal riffs onto machine rhythm until the whole thing sounds like a factory running too hot.

The writing credit spreads across Barker, Jourgensen, Chris Connelly and Bill Rieflin, and you can hear a gang mentality in the pummel: distorted bark, chugging guitar, no letup. It later found a second life opening the video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.

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