Regimes rise and fall. Stars shine and fade. Trends come and go. Ministry lives on. The six-time GRAMMY Award-nominated multiplatinum juggernaut founded and fronted by Al Jourgensen has seeped through the darkest corners of popular culture and infected the mainstream for over four decades, gleefully spewing sonic bile between the cracks of the system's facade.
Born in the eighties, they survived the nineties, weathered the turn-of-the-century, and even held on through a Goddamn pandemic. However, Ministry shows no signs of stopping or slowing down—even for a breath. Instead, the band—"Uncle Al,” John Bechdel [keyboards], Monte Pittman [guitar], Cesar Soto [guitar], Roy Mayorga [drums], and Paul D’Amour [bass]—cranks out another blast of anthemic industrial metal on its 2023 opus and sixteenth full-length LP, 'HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES'. The guitars rip, the drums rumble, and Al's as righteously cantankerous as ever about a fucked up world ripe for a boot up its ass.
To say it’s been a hell of a ride for Ministry might be the understatement of the century…In the end, Ministry have a lot of gas left in the tank, and Al’s going to ride out the shitstorm with us a little bit longer.
CD jewel case version
Tracklisting:
1. B.D.E.
2. Goddam White Trash
3. Just Stop Oil
4. Aryan Embarrassment
5. TV Song 1/6 Edition
6. New Religion
7. It’s Not Pretty
8. Cult Of Suffering
9. Ricky’s Hand
