Pailhead - Trait [Red Marble]

Pailhead was a brief but explosive collaboration between Ministry’s Al Jourgensen and Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye. This project, active in the late 1980s, successfully fused Jourgensen’s heavy industrial production with MacKaye’s raw, punk-rock songwriting and vocal intensity. Burning bright for only a short window, the duo recorded just six core tracks that became benchmarks for the industrial-punk crossover.

This deluxe reissue—available on both 6-panel digipak CD and various limited colored vinyl editions (including Purple and Magenta/Black Splatter)—collects those original recordings and adds high-value bonuses. It features a rare dub mix of "Don't Stand In Line" alongside a brand-new remix of "Man Should Surrender" by Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission, Peter Murphy). For fans of the Wax Trax! era, this is the definitive archive of a "supergroup" that proved industrial music could have a hardcore punk soul.