Tag: Al Jourgensen

Video: Ministry, ‘99 Percenters' — pro-Occupy single off upcoming 'Relapse'

Video: Ministry, ‘99 Percenters’ — pro-Occupy single off upcoming ‘Relapse’

Al Jourgensen’s newly reformed Ministry next week will release ‘Relapse,’ the band’s first new album in five years, and they’re promoting it with a new music video for pro-Occupy Wall Street single ’99 Percenters’ (‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 99 percent!’), which you can see here via Revolver.

Stream: Ministry live at Misfits in Chicago, March 1982 — earliest live recordings

Stream: Ministry live at Misfits in Chicago, March 1982 — earliest live recordings

For fans of Ministry’s early synthpop incarnation, here’s a real treat: Four tracks recorded live in Chicago at the short-lived Misfits club in March 1982, the earliest known live recordings of Al Jourgensen and Co. made nearly 30 years ago — and long before the group morphed into an industrial giant and then near-metal act.

New releases: Public Image Ltd. and Modern English reissues, plus Bauhaus, Buck Satan

New releases: Public Image Ltd. and Modern English reissues, plus Bauhaus, Buck Satan

This week’s new releases include reissues of 10 albums by Public Image Ltd., plus John Lydon’s 1997 solo album, as well as reissue of the first three Modern English albums, a digital-only Bauhaus live album and the long-awaited debut by Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters, aka Ministry’s Al Jourgensen and guests such as Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick.

Ministry to release pro-Occupy single ‘99 Percenters' in advance of 'Relapse'

Ministry to release pro-Occupy single ‘99 Percenters’ in advance of ‘Relapse’

Al Jourgensen’s newly reformed Ministry will release its first original music in four years later this week in the form of the pro-Occupy Wall Street single ’99 Percenters,’ which will go on sale digitally on Friday and then be streamed from the industrial juggernaut’s Facebook page beginning Christmas Day.

Video: Ministry's 'The Making of Relapse' — in the studio with Al Jourgensen and Co.

Video: Ministry’s ‘The Making of Relapse’ — in the studio with Al Jourgensen and Co.

Al Jourgensen not only has reactivated Ministry for a new album and tour next summer, but he’s decided to chronicle the recording of the ‘Relapse’ record with a series of short ‘webisodes,’ the first of which can be watched here. The album is due out in spring, with a limited number of U.S. dates next summer.

Ministry announces Relapse Tour 2012 shows in Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York

Ministry announces Relapse Tour 2012 shows in Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York

Al Jourgensen today announced the brief U.S. leg of the reactivated Ministry’s upcoming Relapse Tour 2012, five concerts in just four cities — Denver, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago — with no plans to add additional American destinations to the trek.

Al Jourgensen reforms Ministry for ‘Relapse’ album, 2012 concerts in U.S., Europe

Al Jourgensen has reunited Ministry three years after vowing he was finished with the industrial-metal juggernaut, and says he’ll record and release a new album dubbed ‘Relapse’ before the end of the year and play a limited run of U.S. and European concerts in 2012.