Album · 20 years old this year
Rio Grande Blood
Rio Grande Blood is Ministry's tenth studio album, released on 2 May 2006. It was the band's first record through 13th Planet and Megaforce Records, and it arrived two years after Houses of the Molé, which came out in 2004. The music sits in the industrial metal territory the band is known for, mixing electronic elements with heavy metal and rock.
In the band's story, it comes in the middle of a busy run of albums, with The Last Sucker following in 2007. If you want to hear Ministry in the mid-2000s, after the groundwork of records such as The Land of Rape and Honey and Filth Pig, this is a good place to start.
Rio Grande Blood: tracklist and credits
13 tracks · 51:26Tracklist
- 1Rio Grande BloodAl Jourgensen4:25
- 2Señor PeligroAl Jourgensen and Tommy Victor3:39
- 3GangreenAl Jourgensen and Tommy Victor6:00
- 4Fear (Is Big Business)Al Jourgensen and Tommy Victor4:52
- 5LiesLiesLiesAl Jourgensen and Tommy Victor5:16
- 6The Great Satan (remix)Al Jourgensen3:09
- 7Yellow CakeAl Jourgensen and Paul Raven4:36
- 8PalestinaAl Jourgensen and Tommy Victor3:18
- 9Ass ClownAl Jourgensen and Paul Raven6:43
- 10Khyber PassJourgensen, Raven, Victor7:32
- 11[silence]0:05
- 12[silence]0:06
- 13Sgt. Major Redux1:46
- Produced by
- Al Jourgensen
- Recorded
- 2005 at 13th Planet Studios, El Paso, Texas
- Labels
- 13th Planet Records, 13th Planet, Megaforce
- Length
- 51:26
Line-up
- Sgt. Major · vocals · guest
- Jello Biafra · vocals · guest
- Liz Constantine · background vocals · guest
From MusicBrainz, Wikipedia and Wikidata. Only what the sources record is shown.
41.8
Popularity (0–100, vs the whole vault)
851
ListenBrainz listeners
16k
Wikipedia views, last 12 months
2.1k
Deezer fans (all editions)
Released the same week
Also released on 2 May
Every year →
Disintegration
The Cure · 1989
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam · 2006
The Unquestionable Truth, Part 1
Limp Bizkit · 2005
David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
David Bowie · 1978
Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Napalm Death · 1994
Radio Free Europe 2025
R.E.M. · 2025
Live at Montreux 1996
Deep Purple · 2006
The Best of L7: The Slash Years
L7 · 2000
Punk Rock Fiesta!
Love/Hate · 2025
More from Ministry
Full discography →
With Sympathy
1983
Twitch
1986
Twelve Inch Singles: 1981–1984
1987
The Land of Rape and Honey
1988
The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
1989
In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up (Live)
1990
ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ
1992
Filth Pig
1996
Dark Side of the Spoon
1999
Greatest Fits
2001
Sphinctour
2002
Animositisomina
2003
Houses of the Molé
2004
Early Trax
2004
Side Trax
2004
Rantology
2005
Rio Grande DUB Ya
2007
The Last Sucker
2007
Cover Up
2008
Adios… Puta Madres
2009
The Last Dubber
2009
Mixxxes of the Molé
2010
Every Day Is Halloween: Greatest Tricks
2010
Undercover
2010
Relapse
2012
From Beer to Eternity
2013
Toronto 1986 (live)
2015
AmeriKKKant
2018
Everyday (is Halloween) - The Lost Mixes
2020
Moral Hygiene
2021
HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
2024
The Squirrely Years Revisited
2025
Hate to Go - Take Out or Delivery
2026
The best of 2006
All of 2006 →
Stadium Arcadium
Red Hot Chili Peppers · 2006
The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance · 2006
10,000 Days
Tool · 2006
Saturday Night Wrist
Deftones · 2006
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam · 2006
Love
The Beatles · 2006
A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Maiden · 2006
Revelations
Audioslave · 2006
Blood Mountain
Mastodon · 2006
Christ Illusion
Slayer · 2006
Life on the Murder Scene
My Chemical Romance · 2006
Sacrament
Lamb of God · 2006
More on 13th Planet Records
The label →
Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz + wikidata
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 2 May 2006 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 2 May 2006 | |
| Wikidata | 2 May 2006 | |
| US release | 2 May 2006 | earliest US date |
4 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2006 | US | 13th Planet Records | 020286208327 | original |
| 2 May 2006 | XW | 13th Planet Records | 803680151150 | original |
| 5 May 2006 | DE | AFM Records | 4046661020427 | other |
| 19 July 2006 | JP | TKO Records | 4543034008612 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 800×800 | upscaled |