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Ministry's Last Toronto Song Is A Stones Cover

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By Cameron Gordon (CHARTattack) May 5, 2008 11:00 am
On paper, it appeared that Ministry had gone a bit soft in their middle age, just in time for their farewell tour. The ticket prices were sky high. The tour was slapped with a cheesy pun as a moniker (the "C U LaTouR"). There were even special VIP tickets for sale that included a meet-and-greet with the band and a special Ministry gift...
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Ministry — Rio Grande Blood

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) May 2, 2006 4:11 pm
It's no surprise that Ministry's Al Jourgensen getting his groove back directly coincided with George Bush Jr. going to war in Iraq. After all, George Sr. was the muse for Ministry's best record back in '92, the blistering Psalm 69. On Rio Grande Blood, however, Jourgensen's righteous anger is less than perfectly distilled. Coy songs like the boot...
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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending April 21, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 21, 2011 3:56 pm
Peaches Geldof has allegedly been caught on camera buying pot. Bob Geldof, her father, is now apparently going to have a "serious talk" with her. Cue lots of rolling of eyes and "I'm 23 years old and I don't have to listen to you anymore!" —World Entertainment News Network via Jam! Showbiz Looks like The Vandals' cover for Hollywood Potato Chip is...
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Ministry And Sonic Youth Members Form The High Confessions

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) February 24, 2010 4:00 pm
Relapse Records has announced they've signed a new band consisting of established musicians called The High Confessions. According to a press release, the band consists of Chris Connelly (Ministry, Killing Joke, Revolting Cocks), Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, acclaimed recording engineer Jeremy Lemos (Smog, Stereolab) and Sanford Parker (...
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Ministry’s Al Jourgensen Talks Blackhawks Hockey

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) May 13, 2009 11:35 am
Ministry founder Al Jourgensen is a huge supporter of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks and wrote a new theme song for the team last year titled "Keys To The City," which you can hear here. "Keys To The City" name-checks Blackhawks alumni Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and Tony Esposito and is now a companion to the team's official theme...
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Ministry Say Adios With Live Album

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) February 18, 2009 4:28 pm
Ministry will release a final live album titled Adios... Putas Madres on March 31 through lead singer Al Jourgensen’s 13th Planet Records label. "We had a blast on the final tour and this CD really captures the heart of Ministry live," Jourgensen says. The 13-track album features recordings of relatively recent material from the 75-...
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R.I.P. Ministry: "It's Been An Unbelievable Experience"

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) May 2, 2008 3:30 pm
After a nearly three-decade career that changed and shaped the course of metal, Al Jourgensen and Ministry — who took industrial music mainstream — are calling it quits. Jourgensen is in the middle of his final North American Ministry jaunt with guitarists Sin Quirin and Tommy Victor (who also fronts Prong), keyboardist John Bechdel, bassist...
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Ministry Reveal Their Secret

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Photographer: 
Richard Beland
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Kool Haus
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Toronto
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October 18, 1994

Ministry To Start Final Tour In Vancouver

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By Jared Story (CHARTattack) November 14, 2007 3:00 pm
After 26 years of industrial metal fury, Ministry are jumping into their Jesus-built hotrod and riding off into the sunset. And the filth pigs in Vancouver will be the first to see Al Jorgensen's legendary band for the last time. The CU LaTour will begin in everybody's favorite tour-opening city on Mar. 28. You'll recall that The Police...
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Killing Joke/Ministry Bassist Paul Raven Dies Of Heart Attack

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By Moya Dillon (CHARTattack) October 22, 2007 4:30 pm
Paul Raven, best known for his work with post-punk/industrial group Killing Joke and more recently as a member of Ministry, was found dead in a home in Geneva, Switzerland on Saturday. Initial reports indicate that Raven, 46, suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep around 6 a.m. He was in Geneva to work with French industrial band Treponem...
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Ministry Say Goodbye With The Last Sucker

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By CHARTattack Staff August 17, 2007 4:00 pm
Al Jourgensen is ready to move on, so Ministry's 11th studio album, The Last Sucker, will be the last of the industrial rock band's 27-year career. "I've got a lot of side-projects and new projects I want to focus on," explains Jourgensen. "We have our own label, 13th Planet Records, we're building, and I want to sign, produce...
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Ministry Prepare Final Album And Dub Collection

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By Daniel Vest (CHARTattack) June 4, 2007 5:00 pm
Industrial rock godfathers Ministry are recording their 11th and final studio album in frontman Al Jourgensen's 13th Planet Studios in El Paso, Texas. The Last Sucker, due on Sept. 18 via 13th Planet Records, will mark the end of a 26-year career for the band. Jourgensen has been the only constant throughout that time. He's joined in the...
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Al Jourgensen Hates Bush And Enjoys Cocks

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By Phil Villeneuve (CHARTattack) May 9, 2006 5:30 pm
If you ask Al Jourgensen, the grand master of industrial music and loudmouth leader of Ministry and The Revolting Cocks, about going into politics, his answer is pretty short. "I could never go into politics, man, too many Polaroids locked up in a shoe box somewhere. I couldn't possibly ever entertain that thought." But if you ask...
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New Releases: It's Like '93 All Over Again

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By CHARTattack Staff May 1, 2006 5:00 pm
If you're feeling a bit of deja vu in the next couple of days, there's good reason. This Tuesday's new album releases will be a dizzying reminder of how things were in the dangerous days of the early '90s when "alternative" was alternative and Stone Temple Pilots hadn't yet successfully co-opted everything. First and foremost, Pearl...
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Double Dose Of Al Jourgensen On The Way

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By Allegra Shepherd (CHARTattack) March 21, 2006 6:00 pm
It's going to be a busy year for Texan industrial musical powerhouse Al Jourgensen. Not only are his band, Ministry, set to unleash Rio Grande Blood on May 2, but he just released a new album by The Revolting Cocks as well. Jourgensen will pull double frontman duties when the two groups tour together across North America this spring before...
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Ministry — Houses Of The Mole

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By Keith Carman (CHARTattack) June 29, 2004 11:12 am
It looks like the best thing to happen to Ministry were the two Bush administrations. The last time frontman Al Jourgensen managed to cough up an album with this much ferocity, wit and balls-out aggression, was when George Sr. was screwing things up from the Oval Office (That would be 1992’s Psalm 69 for those keeping count). Now that Jourgensen...
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Ministry — Animositisomina

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 18, 2003 2:33 pm
There was a time when Ministry were so cool and tough that watching them was like having a gang of dreadlocked Darth Mauls beat you with keyboards in a circle pit. Sadly, that time is long gone and our fearsome industrial-rock ninjas are now about as potent as Jar-Jar Binks. Animositisomina is filled with mid-tempo sludge-dustrial that never even...
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Ministry — Sphinctour

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) March 26, 2002 9:09 pm
There was a point around '92-93 when Ministry were THE scariest fuckers on the planet. I went to one of their concerts and couldn't lift my arms for three days afterwards because the pit I was thrashing in was so violent. And the freaks. The freaks at the shows were the most dangerous, Columbine-fringe misfits you'd ever see collected in one place...
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Ministry — Greatest Fits

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By Tom Jablonski (CHARTattack) June 19, 2001 9:21 am
For the record, I hate Greatest Hits albums and find them useful only as beer coasters, but my job is to criticize the shit out of them, so let’s begin. The album takes you from the band’s baby steps, with the first single "What About Us?" all the way to their latest and very disappointing tunes, "Supermanic Soul"...
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Ministry Best Of On The Way

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By Matt Mernagh (CHARTattack) May 11, 2001 3:30 pm
There have been many supposed albums on the way from industrial noise merchants Ministry, but all have died on the release schedule before seeing the light of day. For those of us who've loved the band before they performed at Lollapoloza back in the heady '90s, there was eager anticipation for the three live albums that were going to appear...
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