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Everything about this group is meant to shock. There's that name and the awesome album title, plus a lead single ("Noreste Caliente") that takes banda, rock, hip-hop and electronic and lights it all on fire. Then there's the band, which consists of "industry vets" in masks who won't reveal their identities (and may or may not be bitches). But their debut is much less mysterious, consisting of solid, party-happy electro takes on everything from mambo to post-punk to the Gaza strip (for real). Nothing as incendiary as that single, but it's all good, fun and, well, pretty normal electro-pop.

Ministry found their metal in the late '80s, and within a few years their mechanistic shock tactics, noise terrorism and pissed-off perversion -- devoid of meaning and no worse for it -- were risking self-parody. Still, the big commercial breakthrough, for the band and industrial metal in general, was this 1992 album, which sold a million on the shoulders of two alt-rock hits, novelty-ish "Jesus Built My Hotrod" (featuring Butthole Surfer Gibby Hayes) and protest-ish "N.W.O." (ostensibly a blast at Bush the Elder) -- not to mention inspiration from Aleister Crowley and William Burroughs.