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"It's time to herd goats." Ministry announce Goodbye Europe farewell tour, share animated video for Burned Out, the first single from their final album Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)

"It doesn't matter if you're left or right, we're all dead unless we all unite"

Metal Hammer · Jul 24

"They were ripping the whole place down. The bar was used as a battering ram to storm the stage." How a long wait for a metal singer's dealer to deliver the goods almost caused disaster at an iconic UK music venue

There's a reason drugs are bad, kids, and this chaotic night in Nottingham was one of them

Metal Hammer · Oct 18, 2025

“Trent Reznor started out as a roadie for us, next thing I know he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan interviewed Ministry legend Al Jourgensen and the results are as brilliant as you’d expect

From trading Ministry songs for drugs and production lessons to inspiring Nine Inch Nails and accidentally spiking Tool with LSD, no stone is left unturned

Metal Hammer · May 9, 2025

“I planned to go out with Ministry. But then Madonna said, ‘I want Monte here – even if he’s just standing and holding a guitar’”: Monte Pittman on his crazy journey from Guitar Center to Ministry via Prong and Madonna – and his band with Adam Lambert

It might seem strange that a dude best known for playing guitar lines for pumping, thumping dance songs is now blowing eardrums with industrial metallers Ministry. But Pittman says he’s right where he belongs. This is his remarkable story

Guitar World · Oct 31, 2024

“It was a case of meeting one of your idols and realising he is a total douchebag.” Ministry's Al Jourgensen on the night he worked as a “man-slave servant” for Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and how it screwed up his love life

They say you should never meet your heroes, and after meeting Led Zeppelin's frontman, Al Jourgensen might agree

Metal Hammer · Sep 26, 2024

“This presidency isn’t a surprise to me. You could see it coming a mile away. But the scope of the corruption is unparalleled”: How Ministry’s Al Jourgensen tried and failed to bow out with the George W Bush-baiting The Last Sucker

In 2007, Al Jourgensen was talking about retiring – and it was mostly down to the US President

Metal Hammer · Sep 3, 2024

"It's the worst album in the history of mankind": This is the soundtrack of Al Jourgensen's life

Ministry linchpin Al Jourgensen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happened when GG Allin threw up on him in an elevator in New York

Metal Hammer · Jul 4, 2024

"I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music

Ministry might be looking to bow out after their next album, but they leave behind one of metal's most colourful and event-filled legacies. We asked frontman Al Jourgensen to look back on his life

Metal Hammer · Jun 6, 2024

The untold story of Black Sabbath's unlikely resurrection: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Jon Bon Jovi, Triumph, Bryan Adams, Praying Mantis, FM, New England, Al Jourgensen, Masters Of Reality, Chris Spedding, Cock Sparrer, Bad Nerves and more

Louder · May 24, 2024

Watch Ministry play songs from maligned albums With Sympathy and Twitch for first time since 1980s

Al Jourgensen’s industrial icons exhumed their earliest material this weekend, after their leader disowned it for years

Metal Hammer · May 13, 2024