Simply previous to the discharge of MINISTRY‘s brand-new studio album, “Hopiumforthemasses”, dropping March 1, 2024, the band will head out on a spring 2024 North American tour, as soon as once more teaming up with touring comrades Gary Numan and FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY.

The 29-date trek kicks off February 27 in San Francisco and runs by way of April 5 in Tucson, hitting main markets within the U.S. and Canada.

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Says MINISTRY mastermind and creator Al Jourgensen: “So wanting ahead to doing one other tour with Gary and the gang. We had such a blast the final time. The exhibits have been wonderful. Every band enhances the opposite completely. Plus, each of our new releases are kickass! Get your tickets and are available be part of us.”

MINISTRY spring 2024 North American tour with Gary Numan and FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY:

Feb. 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield (purchase tickets)
Feb. 29 – Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre (purchase tickets)
Mar. 01 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater (purchase tickets)
Mar. 02 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo (purchase tickets)
Mar. 03 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom (purchase tickets)
Mar. 05 – Calgary, AB @ Palace Theatre (purchase tickets)
Mar. 06 – Edmonton, AB @ Halfway Music Corridor (purchase tickets)
Mar. 08 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre (purchase tickets)
Mar. 09 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore (purchase tickets)
Mar. 10 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee (purchase tickets)
Mar. 12 – Columbus, OH @ Kemba Dwell (purchase tickets)
Mar. 13 – Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theater (purchase tickets)
Mar. 14 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom (purchase tickets)
Mar. 16 – Toronto, ON @ Historical past (purchase tickets)
Mar. 17 – Montreal, QC @ MTelus (purchase tickets)
Mar. 18 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner (purchase tickets)
Mar. 19 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5 (purchase tickets)
Mar. 20 – Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek On line casino (purchase tickets)
Mar. 22 – Cherokee, NC @ Harrah’s Cherokee (purchase tickets)
Mar. 23 – Orlando, FL @ Laborious Rock Dwell (purchase tickets)
Mar. 24 – Tampa, FL @ Jannus Touchdown (purchase tickets)
Mar. 26 – Birmingham, AL @ Avondale (purchase tickets)
Mar. 27 – Biloxi, MS @ Laborious Rock On line casino Biloxi*** (purchase tickets)
Mar. 29 – Houston, TX @ Home of Blues (purchase tickets)
Mar. 30 – Dallas, TX @ The Manufacturing facility (purchase tickets)
Mar. 31 – Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa Theater (purchase tickets)
Apr. 02 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom (purchase tickets)
Apr. 04 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Lodges Las Vegas (purchase tickets)
Apr. 05 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre (purchase tickets)

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In August, MINISTRY gave us the primary style of the brand new materials with the official launch of “Goddamn White Trash”, that includes CORROSION OF CONFORMITY‘s Pepper Keenan, a tune that made its debut on MINISTRY‘s headline tour earlier this yr.

Over the course of 9 tracks, Jourgensen is righteously cantankerous as ever a few fucked up world ripe for a boot up its ass. Like at all times, he is merely wanting round on the similar dumpster hearth all of us are, however he is obtained a microphone and makes use of it effectively to rage on in regards to the state of the world.

“Identical to you or anyone else, I am merely a passenger on this lifetime,” mentioned Jourgensen. “I am watching social modifications, political modifications, and financial modifications, and I touch upon them as a result of I do have a First Modification proper. Lots of people say artists and athletes ought to shut up and play ball. No, I am on this journey too. If I see one thing, I say one thing. That displays on the place every album goes. As an alternative of staying sedentary and singing about damaged relationships, interior turmoil, or no matter is hurting this week, I touch upon what is going on on from the angle of a fellow passenger.”

Joined by MINISTRY‘s present frontline of musicians — John Bechdel (keyboards),Monte Pittman and Cesar Soto (guitars),Roy Mayorga (drums) and Paul D’Amour (bass) — “Hopiumforthemasses” additionally has a slew of particular visitor contributors together with GOGOL BORDELLO‘s Eugene Hutz, longtime collaborator and LARD companion Jello Biafra and Keenan.

“Hopiumforthemasses” shall be obtainable in three vinyl variants, a CD jewelcase and digital/streaming platforms. The vinyl variants embrace: inexperienced with yellow splatter (in shops all over the place); blue with pink splatter (nuclear blast unique); pink with white splatter (band/tour unique).

This previous June, Jourgensen advised Yahoo! Leisure ‘s Lyndsey Parker that he was near placing MINISTRY to mattress, greater than 40 years after he launched the band in his former hometown of Chicago.

“My profession is winding down with MINISTRY,” Jourgensen mentioned. “I am gonna cease MINISTRY in an album or two. I’ve to. I’ve different issues I wanna do.”

He continued: “My public and my band are all in settlement that we’re being shackled by… We’re taking our style to the farthest limits it will probably go, and we’re proud of that. And we’ll cease when it is time as a substitute of preserve going and attempting to only recreate the identical stuff. We preserve attempting to push additional. So, I determine there’s solely possibly yet one more MINISTRY album to go. Perhaps two, however in all probability one.”

Jourgensen added: “I’ve different issues to do. I’ve tasks that I am engaged on with numerous individuals. I’ve movie scores. And MINISTRY, now we’re being held to the usual of this new MINISTRY of, okay, both push additional or do the preferred stuff time and again and time and again, which we have now with ‘Psalm 69’ or one thing like that. I am bored with that. We’re all bored with that. Nicely, we are. The followers aren’t. So I feel this subsequent yr or two is gonna be actually transformative within the sense that I am wrapping a bow on my whole profession and saying, ‘Drop mic. Thanks. Thanks for getting our t-shirts… Good evening. And now I hope you comply with me on my subsequent journey.”

Al revealed that one in every of MINISTRY‘s ultimate recordings is likely to be a ‘remake” of the band’s first album, “With Sympathy”, which he claims he had little management over, with the report firm on the time dictating its route. In keeping with Jourgensen, a brand new model of “With Sympathy” would “tie a bow on the complete factor, and simply say, ‘Drop mic. Good evening. I am outta right here.'”

The MINISTRY mastermind mentioned that he and his bandmates are heading into the studio to begin work on a brand new recording of “Revenge”, one in every of three singles from “With Sympathy”, with the chance that they’ll re-record three of the album’s different cuts: “Effigy”, “Work For Love” and “Right here We Go”. As for when followers would possibly hear these new variations, Al mentioned: “I feel it should be ahead of you suppose.”

This isn’t the primary time Jourgensen has vowed to make a “ultimate” MINISTRY album. 2007’s “The Final Sucker” was imagined to be the band’s last-ever LP. Then, whereas engaged on different tasks, inspiring riffs have been born that will ultimately develop into 2012’s “Relapse”. Later that yr, Jourgensen started work on yet one more MINISTRY album with longtime guitarist and collaborator Mike Scaccia. Three days after leaving the MINISTRY classes in El Paso, within the early hours of December 23, 2012, Scaccia suffered coronary heart failure onstage whereas performing along with his different band, RIGOR MORTIS, and was pronounced useless on arrival on the hospital. Scaccia‘s loss of life each devastated and motivated Jourgensen to return the studio to place the ultimate touches on what that they had began in reminiscence of his greatest pal. The consequence was 2013’s “From Beer To Eternity”. Two extra albums adopted, 2018’s “AmeriKKKant” and 2021’s “Ethical Hygiene”.

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