Al Jourgensen sporting heart-shaped sun shades, pigtails, and a shirt that claims “I am Lovely”? Sure, that is what you will see within the brand-new, first-time-ever video for MINISTRY‘s oldie-but-goodie hit “I will Do Something For You”.
The video, helmed by Vicente Cordero and Ben Garcia, may be seen under.
It is all a part of the persevering with “when hell freezes over” moments which were the hallmarks of MINISTRY‘s newest work, “The Squirrely Years Revisited” (out now through Cleopatra Data) that sees Jourgensen making peace with the previous by reexamining his long-dormant synth pop hits and giving them a recent polish 40 years later.
And the band is having a helluva enjoyable time doing so. On the continued “The Squirrely Years Tour”, wrapping up June 5, Jourgensen, alongside John Bechdel (keyboards),Monte Pittman and Cesar Soto (guitars),Pepe Clarke Magaña (drums),Paul D’Amour (bass) and two backup Squirrelette singers have been getting rave evaluations for the blast-from-the-past reveals.
Tickets are nonetheless out there for the remaining “The Squirrely Years Tour” dates at MinistryBand.com.
That includes 9 tracks (three extra bonus tracks on CD),“The Squirrely Years Revisited” presents reworked variations of not solely “I will Do Something For You”, but additionally “Work For Love”, “I am Not An Effigy” and “On a regular basis Is Halloween”, alongside that tune’s first-ever music video.
“The Squirrely Years Revisited” follows the discharge of MINISTRY‘s sixteenth studio album in 2024, “Hopiumforthemasses”, and comes forward of the ultimate new studio album from MINISTRY in 2026, a document that has Jourgensen teaming up with Paul Barker as soon as once more.
“The Squirrely Years Revisited” is out there in all codecs together with digital, CD and 4 completely different vinyl configurations. The total observe record contains:
01. Work For Love
02. Right here We Go
03. All Day
04. On a regular basis Is Halloween
05. Revenge
06. I am Not An Effigy
07. I am Falling
08. Similar Outdated Insanity
09. I will Do Something For You
10. Simply Like You (CD solely)
11. We Consider (CD solely)
12. Over The Shoulder (CD solely)
Born in 1981 in Chicago, MINISTRY has been the lifetime ardour mission of founder Al Jourgensen, thought-about to be the pioneer of commercial music. In its early days, MINISTRY was identifiable by its heavy synth-pop materials consistent with the brand new sounds and know-how that had been being developed within the ’80s. MINISTRY‘s output started with 4 12-inch singles on Wax Trax! Data in 1981 earlier than the primary LP, “With Sympathy”, in 1983 through Arista Data. As time progressed nonetheless, so did MINISTRY, shortly creating a harsher, and extra stylized sound that the band quickly turned notorious for on seminal albums “Twitch” (1986),“The Land Of Rape And Honey” (1988) and “The Thoughts Is A Horrible Factor To Style” (1989). With the discharge of “Psalm 69: The Means To Succeed And The Means To Suck Eggs” (1992),MINISTRY hit an all-time excessive within the mainstream musical realm and obtained its first Grammy nomination. In complete, MINISTRY has been nominated for a Grammy Award six instances. Eight extra albums would observe earlier than an indefinite break in 2013, solely to be unearthed once more in 2018 with “AmeriKKKant”, persevering with to mirror Jourgensen‘s views on the horrifying state of society and politics. The 2021 album “Ethical Hygiene” marked a brand new artistic period of Jourgensen and the band.
MINISTRY‘s sixteenth studio album, “Hopiumforthemasses”, was launched March 1, 2024 through Nuclear Blast Data.
