Paul Ion Barker is a producer, composer and touring musician. His extensive… Read Full Bio ↴Paul Ion Barker is a producer, composer and touring musician. His extensive production and writing work with Ministry extended from 1985 through 2004. He's been involved with bringing a wide range of other musical projects into fruition: Lard, Pailhead, Revolting Cocks, Flowering Blight, USSA, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Malekko, & recently as a touring member of Puscifer.

Lead into Gold is considered his 'solo' side-project after he joined Ministry. Under this name he put out 2 releases, a full length called: Age of Reason (featuring his brother Roland (from the Blackouts on one track and Ministry's Al Jourgensen on another) and a CD single/12" called: Chicks & Speed: Futurism. A video for the song "Faster Than Light" was created with Jourgenson & Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) both making an appearance, which was available on the Wax Trax! Black Box. A 12" EP titled "Low and Slow" was released roughly 25 years after recording in 2015 on Wax Trax! Records.

In 2018, "The Sun Behind The Sun" was released on the label "No, So Yes Recordings", featuring appearances by people such as Bill Rieflin (of groups Ministry, Revolting Cocks and others.) on tracks 1, 2, 6, and 8. In 2023, Paul Barker and Josh Holley (Who co-owns MALEKKO Heavy Industry with Paul) joined the Skinny Puppy final tour as an opening act on both legs of the tour.

Blackened Heart
Lead Into Gold Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Blackened Heart' by these artists:

Combichrist Energy, animals, we're all death Penetrate, real life, perfe…
Flagless It all comes back Piece by piece This is the moment I can't…
Vindicta The lustful snake resembling who you are Your cock plague, s…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Lead Into Gold:

A Giant on Earth Together again This instant seems eternal And feeble But …
Age of Reason I curse the sun And I curse the night Yet tell this…
Beauty Flesh into stone again The gods are laughing with me With …
Faster Than Light ----------------- Again we understand Mauled by greasy hand …

Fell from Heaven And I nod my head To everything And I dip my hand Into…
Hatred He sat and judged us all We terrorized his soul As god…
Idiot Just for the fun of it Life is a tale Told by…
Lunatic Genius (Remix) Baby, im ready too. Fallin love without you. Baby, im ready …
Lunatic/Genius Why must the tin-headed know What I can and cannot do? A…
Snake Oil Covered in mud and glory Belies our sense of fun Children …
Sweet Thirteen See what I see The clumsy gait of eternity Here as it…
The Sea The Sun The Past The Sum Go past a line drawn in the air A form deformed…
The Stripper I breathe and move I live today Embrace my heart's desires…
The Sun Behind the Sun Go past a line drawn in the air A form deformed…

Unreason Hang on the world It's spinning like a top Hold on to…

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