{"id":4614,"date":"2023-08-18T11:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:23:29","slug":"ministry-announces-16th-studio-album-hopiumforthemasses-goddamn-white-trash-video-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=4614","title":{"rendered":"MINISTRY Announces 16th Studio Album &#8216;Hopiumforthemasses&#8217;; &#8216;Goddamn White Trash&#8217; Video Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MINISTRTY-2023.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4615\" width=\"811\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MINISTRTY-2023.png 620w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MINISTRTY-2023-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Photo credit:\u00a0<strong>Derick Smith<\/strong>\u00a0\/\u00a0<strong>Nuclear Blast<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the world continues hanging on by a thread through pandemics, wildfires, climate change, social-political chaos and social media-fueled conspiracy theories, at least there&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;to get us through. Industrial provocateur&nbsp;<strong>Al Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;is ready to unleash his latest missives with&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s 16th album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;<\/strong>, slated for release March 1, 2024 via&nbsp;<strong>Nuclear Blast Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the six-time\u00a0<strong>Grammy Award<\/strong>-nominated multiplatinum act gives the first taste of the new material with the official release of\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Goddamn White Trash&#8221;<\/strong>, featuring\u00a0<strong>CORROSION OF CONFORMITY<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Pepper Keenan<\/strong>, a song that made its debut on\u00a0<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s headline tour earlier this year.<\/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 - Goddamn White Trash (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8imYWda6MOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the course of nine tracks,&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;is righteously cantankerous as ever about a fucked up world ripe for a boot up its ass. Like always, he&#8217;s merely looking around at the same dumpster fire we all are, but he&#8217;s got a microphone and uses it well to rage on about the state of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Just like you or anybody else, I&#8217;m simply a passenger in this lifetime,&#8221; says&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>. &#8220;I&#8217;m watching social changes, political changes, and economic changes, and I comment on them because I do have a First Amendment right. A lot of people say artists and athletes should shut up and play ball. No, I&#8217;m on this trip too. If I see something, I say something. That reflects on where each album goes. Instead of staying sedentary and singing about broken relationships, inner turmoil, or whatever is hurting this week, I comment on what&#8217;s going on from the perspective of a fellow passenger.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joined by\u00a0<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s current frontline of musicians \u2014\u00a0<strong>John Bechdel<\/strong>\u00a0(keyboards),<strong>Monte Pittman<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Cesar Soto<\/strong>\u00a0(guitars),<strong>Roy Mayorga<\/strong>\u00a0(drums) and\u00a0<strong>Paul D&#8217;Amour<\/strong>\u00a0(bass) \u2014\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0also has a slew of special guest contributors including\u00a0<strong>GOGOL BORDELLO<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Eugene Hutz<\/strong>, longtime collaborator and\u00a0<strong>LARD<\/strong>\u00a0companion\u00a0<strong>Jello Biafra<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Keenan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MINISTRY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4616\" width=\"377\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MINISTRY.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MINISTRY-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;track listing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">01.&nbsp;<strong>B.D.E.<\/strong><br>02.&nbsp;<strong>Goddamn White Trash<\/strong>***<br>03.&nbsp;<strong>Just Stop Oil<\/strong><br>04.&nbsp;<strong>Aryan Embarrassment<\/strong>**<br>05.&nbsp;<strong>TV Song 1\/6 Edition<\/strong><br>06.&nbsp;<strong>New Religion<\/strong><br>07.&nbsp;<strong>It&#8217;s Not Pretty<\/strong><br>08.&nbsp;<strong>Cult of Suffering<\/strong>*<br>09.&nbsp;<strong>Ricky&#8217;s Hand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">* Featuring&nbsp;<strong>Eugene H\u00fctz<\/strong>&nbsp;(GOGOL BORDELLO)<br>** Featuring&nbsp;<strong>Jello Biafra<\/strong><br>***Featuring&nbsp;<strong>Pepper Keenan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;will be available in three vinyl variants, a CD jewelcase and digital\/streaming platforms. The vinyl variants include: green with yellow splatter (in stores everywhere); blue with pink splatter (nuclear blast exclusive); red with white splatter (band\/tour exclusive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past June,&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/ministrys-al-jourgensen-to-rerecord-disavowed-with-sympathy-songs-183544523.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yahoo! Entertainment<\/a>&nbsp;&#8216;s&nbsp;<strong>Lyndsey Parker<\/strong>&nbsp;that he was close to putting&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;to bed, more than 40 years after he launched the band in his former hometown of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;My career is winding down with\u00a0<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>\u00a0said. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna stop\u00a0<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>\u00a0in an album or two. I have to. I have other things I wanna do.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continued: &#8220;My public and my band are all in agreement that we are being shackled by\u2026 We are taking our genre to the farthest limits it can go, and we&#8217;re happy with that. And we&#8217;ll stop when it&#8217;s time instead of keep going and trying to just recreate the same stuff. We keep trying to push further. So, I figure there&#8217;s only maybe one more&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;album to go. Maybe two, but probably one.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;added: &#8220;I have other things to do. I have projects that I&#8217;m working on with various people. I have film scores. And&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>, now we&#8217;re being held to the standard of this new&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;of, okay, either push further or do the most popular stuff over and over and over and over, which we have with&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;Psalm 69&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;or something like that. I&#8217;m tired of that. We&#8217;re&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;tired of that. Well,&nbsp;<em>we<\/em>&nbsp;are. The fans aren&#8217;t. So I think this next year or two is gonna be really transformative in the sense that I&#8217;m wrapping a bow on my entire career and saying, &#8216;Drop mic. Thank you. Thank you for buying our t-shirts\u2026 Good night. And now I hope you follow me on my next journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Al<\/strong>&nbsp;revealed that one of&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&#8216;s final recordings might be a &#8216;remake&#8221; of the band&#8217;s first album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;With Sympathy&#8221;<\/strong>, which he claims he had little control over, with the record company at the time dictating its direction. According to&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>, a new version of&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;With Sympathy&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;would &#8220;tie a bow on the&nbsp;<em>whole<\/em>&nbsp;thing, and just say, &#8216;Drop mic. Good night. I&#8217;m outta here.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;mastermind said that he and his bandmates are heading into the studio to commence work on a new recording of&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Revenge&#8221;<\/strong>, one of three singles from&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;With Sympathy&#8221;<\/strong>, with the possibility that they will re-record three of the album&#8217;s other cuts:&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Effigy&#8221;<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Work For Love&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Here We Go&#8221;<\/strong>. As for when fans might hear these new versions,&nbsp;<strong>Al<\/strong>&nbsp;said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s going to be sooner than you think.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first time&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;has vowed to make a &#8220;final&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;album. 2007&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;The Last Sucker&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;was supposed to be the band&#8217;s last-ever LP. Then, while working on other projects, inspiring riffs were born that would eventually become 2012&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Relapse&#8221;<\/strong>. Later that year,&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;began work on yet another&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;album with longtime guitarist and collaborator&nbsp;<strong>Mike Scaccia<\/strong>. Three days after leaving the&nbsp;<strong>MINISTRY<\/strong>&nbsp;sessions in El Paso, in the early hours of December 23, 2012,&nbsp;<strong>Scaccia<\/strong>&nbsp;suffered heart failure onstage while performing with his other band,&nbsp;<strong>RIGOR MORTIS<\/strong>, and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.&nbsp;<strong>Scaccia<\/strong>&#8216;s death both devastated and motivated&nbsp;<strong>Jourgensen<\/strong>&nbsp;to return the studio to put the final touches on what they had started in memory of his best friend. The result was 2013&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;From Beer To Eternity&#8221;<\/strong>. Two more albums followed, 2018&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;AmeriKKKant&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;and 2021&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Moral Hygiene&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit:\u00a0Derick Smith\u00a0\/\u00a0Nuclear Blast As the world continues hanging on by a thread through pandemics, wildfires, climate change, social-political chaos and social media-fueled conspiracy theories, at least there&#8217;s&nbsp;MINISTRY&nbsp;to get us through. Industrial provocateur&nbsp;Al Jourgensen&nbsp;is ready to unleash his latest missives with&nbsp;MINISTRY&#8216;s 16th album,&nbsp;&#8220;Hopiumforthemasses&#8221;, slated for release March 1, 2024 via&nbsp;Nuclear Blast Records. 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