Early Trax is a compilation album from industrial metal band Ministry. The album was released in October 2004. It contains either released or (previously) unreleased songs from 1981 through to 1984, as well as some remixes of those songs (roughly half of the album by time is made up of remixes of songs also on the album). The album is thus similar to the 1987 compilation album Twelve Inch Singles: 1981-1984 and contains much of the same material. Most of the songs on the album were initially released on the Wax Trax! label. As can be expected from Ministry's early work, the album features a strong synthpop and new wave flavor - Ministry moved more definitively into the industrial metal genre later into their career (post-Twitch). The album also shows Ministry's early gothic rock / post-punk beginnings, with the two mixes of I'm Falling and Overkill being some of their earliest tracks. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.