{"id":11866,"date":"2025-03-31T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T14:20:41","slug":"ministry-releases-first-ever-music-video-for-every-day-is-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11866","title":{"rendered":"MINISTRY Releases First-Ever Music Video For &#8216;Every Day Is Halloween&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MINISTRY.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11867\" style=\"width:635px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MINISTRY.png 377w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/MINISTRY-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For the first time ever,\u00a0<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>\u00a0has an official music video for the eternal hit\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Every Day Is Halloween&#8221;<\/strong>. Originally released in 1984,\u00a0<strong>Al Jourgensen<\/strong>&#8216;s rally cry for the goth community and misunderstood creatures of the night has remained a cult classic over the decades and is finally being given the visual treatment it deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Ministry - Every Day Is Halloween (Squirrely Version) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dTISF4ZwjMg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Says&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>: &#8220;I&#8217;m amazed and honored that folks are still listening to this song 40 years on. Fly that freak flag proudly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Every Day is Halloween&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of the cuts on the&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;The Squirrely Years Revisited&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;album, out now via&nbsp;<strong>Cleopatra Records<\/strong>, that sees&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;making peace with the past. After the incredible reception to&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;With Sympathy And Twitch&#8221;<\/strong>-heavy set at&nbsp;<strong>Cruel World<\/strong>&nbsp;2024,&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;decided it was time to reexamine his long-dormant synth pop hits and give them a fresh polish 40 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring nine tracks (three additional bonus tracks on CD),<strong>&#8220;The Squirrely Years Revisited&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;offers reworked versions of not only&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Every Day Is Halloween&#8221;<\/strong>, but also&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Work For Love&#8221;<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m Not An Effigy&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ll Do Anything For You&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Squirrely Years Revisited&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;follows the release of&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s 16th studio album in 2024,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;<\/strong>, and comes ahead of the final new studio album from&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2026, a record that has&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;teaming up with&nbsp;<strong>Paul Barker<\/strong>&nbsp;once again.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SQUIR.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SQUIR.png 499w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SQUIR-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SQUIR-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Squirrely Years Revisited&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;is available in all formats, including digital, CD and four different vinyl configurations. The full track listing includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>01.&nbsp;<strong>Work For Love<\/strong><br>02.&nbsp;<strong>Here We Go<\/strong><br>03.&nbsp;<strong>All Day<\/strong><br>04.&nbsp;<strong>Every Day Is Halloween<\/strong><br>05.&nbsp;<strong>Revenge<\/strong><br>06.&nbsp;<strong>I&#8217;m Not An Effigy<\/strong><br>07.&nbsp;<strong>I&#8217;m Falling<\/strong><br>08.&nbsp;<strong>Same Old Madness<\/strong><br>09.&nbsp;<strong>I&#8217;ll Do Anything For You<\/strong><br>10.&nbsp;<strong>Just Like You<\/strong>&nbsp;[CD only]<br>11.&nbsp;<strong>We Believe<\/strong>&nbsp;[CD only]<br>12.&nbsp;<strong>Over The Shoulder<\/strong>&nbsp;[CD only]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate the album and the new-old era of&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>, the band \u2014 also including&nbsp;<strong>John Bechdel<\/strong>&nbsp;(keyboards),<strong>Monte Pittman<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Cesar Soto<\/strong>&nbsp;(guitars),<strong>Pepe Clarke Maga\u00f1a<\/strong>&nbsp;(drums) and&nbsp;<strong>Paul D&#8217;Amour<\/strong>&nbsp;(bass) \u2014 will embark on&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;The Squirrely Years&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;tour beginning April 29, with a set dominated by&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&#8216;s earliest works. Opening support will come from&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s old-school comrades, including&nbsp;<strong>NITZER EBB<\/strong>&nbsp;for the first half of the tour,&nbsp;<strong>MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT<\/strong>&nbsp;for the second half of the tour; and&nbsp;<strong>DIE KRUPPS<\/strong>&nbsp;on all dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1981 in Chicago,&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;has been the lifetime passion project of founder&nbsp;<strong>Al Jourgensen<\/strong>, considered to be the pioneer of industrial music. In its early days,&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;was identifiable by its heavy synth-pop material in line with the new sounds and technology that were being developed in the &#8217;80s.&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s output began with four 12-inch singles on&nbsp;<strong>Wax Trax! Records<\/strong>&nbsp;in 1981 before the first LP,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;With Sympathy&#8221;<\/strong>, in 1983 via&nbsp;<strong>Arista Records<\/strong>. As time progressed however, so did&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>, quickly developing a harsher, and more stylized sound that the band soon became infamous for on seminal albums&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Twitch&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;(1986),<strong>&#8220;The Land Of Rape And Honey&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;(1988) and&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;(1989). With the release of&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;(1992),<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;hit an all-time high in the mainstream musical realm and received its first&nbsp;<strong>Grammy<\/strong>&nbsp;nomination. In total,&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;has been nominated for a&nbsp;<strong>Grammy Award<\/strong>&nbsp;six times. Eight more albums would follow before an indefinite break in 2013, only to be unearthed again in 2018 with&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;AmeriKKKant&#8221;<\/strong>, continuing to reflect&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&#8216;s views on the frightening state of society and politics. The 2021 album&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Moral Hygiene&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;marked a new creative era of&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;and the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s 16th studio album,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;<\/strong>, was released March 1, 2024 via\u00a0<strong>Nuclear Blast Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484539508_1220985009386449_2267190856535619780_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484539508_1220985009386449_2267190856535619780_n-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484539508_1220985009386449_2267190856535619780_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484539508_1220985009386449_2267190856535619780_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484539508_1220985009386449_2267190856535619780_n-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/484539508_1220985009386449_2267190856535619780_n.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever,\u00a0MINISTRY\u00a0has an official music video for the eternal hit\u00a0&#8220;Every Day Is Halloween&#8221;. Originally released in 1984,\u00a0Al Jourgensen&#8216;s rally cry for the goth community and misunderstood creatures of the night has remained a cult classic over the decades and is finally being given the visual treatment it deserves. Says&nbsp;Jourgensen: &#8220;I&#8217;m amazed and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11866\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MINISTRY Releases First-Ever Music Video For &#8216;Every Day Is Halloween&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11871,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions\/11871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}