You know the ole desert island question of what music you’d take along to keep you from going insane (and start having wild sex romps with the ape and primate fraternity of said deserted island) – well I have been answering that question with the following: 1: Black Sabbath and 2: Ministry.
Ministry have long been a fave on this blog from way, way back and it gives me great pleasure to announce news of the forthcoming Ministry movie.
Check it all out below and stay tuned for more Ministry goodness soon!
FIX: The Ministry Movie shoves your ass way, way backstage with the scariest band EVER.
“FUCK THE MAINSTREAM” – might as well have been written by Al Jourgenson, founder of MINISTRY. Love him or hate him, Al, and how he makes music -changed all the rules. Al and all the guys he played with, paid the price and took no prisoners along the way, but they mattered.
No Ministry= No NIN, or Korn, or Jane’s Addiction… if you don’t believe it? Hear it directly from Trent Reznor, Jonathan Davis, Dave Navarro and many more.
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“It’s Always Christmas Time”, a collaborative carol from Al Jourgensen and Mark Thwaite (Mission UK, Peter Murphy, Mob Research) will have its Exclusive World Broadcast Debut on The Mancow Show on November 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM CST. Jourgensen will join Mancow live during the premiere and will be taking calls during the broadcast and adding his irascible charm to the hit radio show.
A Special Limited Edition hand-numbered and autographed CD of “It’s Always Christmas Time” will be available exclusively through the 13th Planet Web Store soon with a download release to follow during the week of November 15th.
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While his prodigal step-child, RevCo is out on the North American LuBriCaTour, Uncle Al has hooked up guitarist Mark Thwaite (Mission UK, Peter Murphy, Tricky, Mob Research) in the studio, collaborating on several pojects simultaneously. Jourgensen and Thwaite, both long-time friends of Killing Joke/Ministry bassist Paul Raven, who passed away on October 20, 2007, joined forces recently at Jourgensen’s 13th Planet compound in El Paso, Texas on RevCo projects and another Jourgensen side project.
But the crowning jewel of the Jourgensen/Thwaite collabortation is the newly penned as of yet untitled Christmas Song to be released via digital download exclusively this Thanksgiving. In honor of the memory of Paul Raven 13th Planet will preview the entire track for one day only on October 20th, 2009, the second anniversary of Raven’s death. Listen to the track for
24 hours only on Ministry’s Myspace.
In tandem, RevCo’s performance on October 20th in Jacksonville, FL will host a video collage of Paul Raven’s life by long-time friend, Dean Karr.
Dave Navarro interviews the enigmatic Al Jourgensen and discusses the forthcoming Ministry ‘Fixed’ documentary, the end of Ministry, the ‘Wicked Lake’ DVD and all the horrors of US politics. Check it out below…
Dave Navarro’s Spread TV: Al Jourgensen: Spread TV Interview: EP 15
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Al Jourgensen has been discussing bringing Ministry to an end with mp3.com. He discusses Ministry’s final tour, his distaste for the Bush dynasty, and the upcoming REVCO album. You also get to meet his dogs, Lemmy and Ozzy.
Ministry, who’s Metal Hammer sponsored UK tour takes place next month, are about to call time on their 27 year career and this will be the very last chance you get to see the industrial titans.
See for yourself here.
The past several years have been real good to Al Jourgensen and all that is Ministry. With a clean and healthy outlook on life, (as clean and healthy as someone like big, bad Al can be) – Ministry have been prolific in releasing amazing album after amazing album. They have a habit of doing that when there is a GW Bush in power as the band is its most vitriolic and venemous during the Bush years.
“We don’t just bitch about Bush and global oligarchies. We’re still a rock band and ‘Cover Up’ is THE Ministry party album,” said Ministry’s Al Jourgensen about Cover Up, recorded by Ministry & Co-Conspirators and set for an April Fools Day (April 1) release.
To be perfectly honest, I didn’t think much of this release when I first checked it out. Some of the tunes I already had (such as ‘Lay Lady Lay’ and ‘Supernaut’ – the latter featuring Al Jourgensen on vocals and not Trent Reznor as had originally been recorded so many moons ago) and the new stuff sounded a little underproduced, somewhat rushed and reeked of Big Al ‘cashing in’. On repeated listens, I’ve grown to appreciate the ‘party’ aspect and in turn, I’m digging this sucker!
Is it to be the final musical statement from Ministry? Who knows. I for one would love to hear more from Al and co in the future as I’m a fan of everything this band has done. But we’ll just wait and see…
The Co-Conspirators: Tony Campos, John Bechdel, Tommy Victor, Al Jourgensen, Sin Quirin, Aaron Rossi
I guess the only good thing about the tyrannical George Bush years – is the sheer ferocity he seems to inspire and excorcise out of Ministry. Over the past few years, Ministry have been incredibly prolific releasing album after album of absolute bonafide classic material. ‘Rio Grande Blood’ is certainly no exception and a spine-tingling political statement from Al Jourgensen and the band. This is a mutha fucker of an album that should be crammed down the throat of every damn right-wing Christian moron that put this monkey into power for a second term. And when they are gargling at your feet having just had a CD shoved down their wind-pipe, kick them with steel-capped boots whilst blasting out the ‘LiesLiesLies’ track! (sorry, I’m getting way overboard here – ‘LiesLiesLies’ is a classic track that borrows the riff from S.O.D’s ‘Seargent D’ track and gives it the Ministry touch!) This is easily some of Ministry’s finest work featuring guest appearances from Jello Biafra, Liz Constantine amongst others. Get your mitts on this one folks!
