Tag Archives: Al Jourgensen

Fear Factory has got balls, thanks to Ministry and Mr. Belding

Posted by on January 26, 2015

The old saying goes what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Thankfully, that’s not the case in Los Angeles, and this past Friday, Fear Factory headlined the Whisky a Go Go there. The  band were, oddly, introduced by Dennis Haskins, who you might know better as Mr. Belding from Saved by the Bell. That’s something in […]

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Ministry Will Do “Anything For You,” Including Debut Unreleased Material

Posted by on December 15, 2014

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAXX0PSq1EM[/youtube] It’s an interesting time to be a Ministry fan. Not long after frontman Al Jourgensen went back on his plans to break the long-running industrial metal group up after the death of guitarist Mike Sciaccia and announced further tour dates in support of their most recent release, From Beer To Eternity, Uncle Al has also gone […]

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Coal Chamber announce tour, possibly collaborate with Ministry [UPDATED]

Posted by on December 9, 2014

Coal Chamber, who younger metal fans might know only as the band that Dez Fafara was in before Devildriver, have  been resuscitated since 2011, but so far, only have several tours under their belt. However, they’ve announced that they’re in the studio working on a new album that will be out in 2015, which will […]

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Ministry taps Monte Pittman, Tony Campos for tour

Posted by on November 13, 2014

It’s been a long, strange trip for Ministry. Al Jourgensen broke up the band up in 2007, then reformed them to put out another album, Relapse, in 2012. Then, in 2013, the band released From Beer to Eternity, but before then, guitarist Mike Scaccia died onstage while playing with Rigor Mortis. Jourgensen claimed that the band would be broken […]

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Watch Ministry’s first video for a song that was never released

Posted by on September 16, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/TsvyBiFA-fI[/youtube] Before Ministry became a late ’80s and ’90s industrial metal hybrid juggernaut, a guy named Alain Jourgensen started a synthpop band. Jourgensen isn’t too fond of that era of the band, which spawned the 1983 album With Sympathy. It wasn’t until 1988’s The Land of Rape and Honey until the band really broke through by turning from […]

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Ministry’s Al Jourgensen gives a weather update

Posted by on June 24, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/CivWye9TWw8[/youtube] Now that he’s (allegedly) sober and heading back out on the road with Ministry, frontman Al Jourgensen stopped by El Paso station KVIA. As a 10-year resident of the town, he decided to stop by and give an interview. It’s a little odd for the frontman of an industrial band to stop by a […]

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Al Jourgensen says Ministry will tour behind ‘From Beer to Eternity’

Posted by on June 2, 2014

When we last heard from Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen, he was planning on getting hammered to watch the Super Bowl, then checking into rehab the following day. Apparently, it worked out, as the frontman has taken to his Facebook page again. On May 15th, he marked his hundredth day sober to state that he’ll be […]

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Ministry’s Al Jourgensen enters rehab

Posted by on February 4, 2014

They tried to make him go to rehab, he said… okay. As announced earlier, Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen has checked into rehabilitation for alcohol addiction. As he stated via Facebook, he shipped off yesterday, the day after the big game, to what he referred to as “drunky gulag,” and said he was looking forward to it. […]

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Ministry’s Al Jourgensen to check into rehab

Posted by on January 20, 2014

Considering the last two Ministry albums were titled Relapse and From Beer to Eternity, it could pretty much be ascertained that frontman Al Jourgensen likes booze. But on Friday, he started suggesting via his Facebook page hat he would be checking himself into rehab as of February 3rd. “12 days til REHAB just gonna drink my face […]

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As NIN concert film lands, Trent Reznor denies Al Jourgensen collaboration

Posted by on December 5, 2013

[youtube]http://youtu.be/LBC3NXnN8y4[/youtube] We don’t throw the word “beautiful” around that often here at Metal Insider, but after seeing Nine Inch Nails live earlier this year, that’s the only word that comes to mind. They have one of the best live shows we’ve seen in terms of staging, lighting and production ever, hands down. And while the newer […]

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