Flashback (song)
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"Flashback" is a song by the industrial
band Ministry
from their 1988 album, The Land of Rape and Honey
. Although it was never released as a single, a music video was made for the song. The song heavily samples lines from the film, Platoon
, and features very aggressive and violent lyrics.
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
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...
from their 1988 album, The Land of Rape and Honey
The Land of Rape and Honey
The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1988 on Sire Records. The image on the cover appears to be an electronically processed version of a photo of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla sub-camp of Buchenwald...
. Although it was never released as a single, a music video was made for the song. The song heavily samples lines from the film, Platoon
Platoon (film)
Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, followed by 1989's Born on the Fourth of July and 1993's Heaven & Earth....
, and features very aggressive and violent lyrics.
Samples
- "Now hold up man!"
- "Do It."
- "Everybody's got to die sometime."
- "I'm hurtin' real bad inside."