Metal
Ministry will leave the stage for the last time on 30 October 2027, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, forty-six years after Al Jourgensen founded the band in Chicago and a year to the day after “Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)”, the farewell album that comes out tomorrow, Friday. He announced it in an interview with Lyndsey Parker at the Licorice Pizza record shop.
“I’m gonna be in my house before they even let people backstage,” he said when asked if he would be sad. “The whole night is gonna be a procession of just people saying goodbye.” Many of the musicians who say he influenced them, he added, will come up on stage to say hello and jam with the band.
First comes the European tour, “Goodbye Europe”, with Die Krupps in support: twenty-one dates between Utrecht on 2 April and Helsinki on 1 May. It plays Madrid on 14 April, at La Riviera, and Barcelona the next day, Thursday the 15th, at Sala Paral·lel 62. Jourgensen says he went through fifty-five songs to prepare it, and that, leaving aside the albums “With Sympathy”, “Filth Pig” and “Dark Side of the Spoon”, the political message hasn’t changed in forty years.
“Hate To Go” is the band’s seventeenth studio album. Paul Barker, their bassist from 1986 to 2003, returns on the closing track, “We’re Still Here”.
Text by Roger Estivill