MINISTRY RELEASES 16TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES’ NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY & ON ALL STREAMING NETWORKS MINISTRY PERFORMING NEW SONGS LIVE ON TOUR THROUGH APRIL 5TH

March 19, 2024 Bernard Cana New Release, On Tour 0

Ministry

Releases 16th Studio Album

HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES

Now Available To Buy HERE &

On All Streaming Networks

 

Al Jourgensen & Co. Also Release Video For

Latest Single “New Religion”

 

Ministry Currently Performing New Songs Live

On Tour Running Through April 5

Tickets On Sale Now At MinistryBand.com

 

 

Ministry’s 16th studio album HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES is out today via Nuclear Blast Records and streaming on all networks. After months of teasing album singles and videos for “Goddamn White Trash,” plus “Just Stop Oil,” and “B.D.E.” the six-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated multiplatinum act also has another new track out today with “New Religion.”

 

See the music video for “New Religion” HERE

 

Says band founder and leader Al Jourgensen of the track, “All traditional faiths seem to pale in comparison to our new ‘Deity’ Media.”

 

Over the course of the album’s nine tracks, Jourgensen is righteously cantankerous as ever about a f***ed up world ripe for a boot up its ass. Like always, he’s merely looking around at the same dumpster fire we all are, but he’s got a microphone and uses it well to rage on about the state of the world.

 

Joined by Ministry’s current frontline of musicians – John Bechdel (keyboards), Monte Pittman and Cesar Soto (guitars), Roy Mayorga (drums) and Paul D’Amour (bass) – HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES also has a slew of special guest contributors including Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, long-time collaborator and Lard companion Jello Biafra and Corrosion of Conformity frontman Pepper Keenan.

 

 

HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES is now available in three vinyl variants, a CD jewelcase and via 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).

 

Buy HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES HERE

 

Find HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES exclusive merchandise and Red Splatter LP at: https://ministryofficial.store/

 

Tracklist for HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES:
  1. B.D.E.
  2. Goddamn White Trash***
  3. Just Stop Oil
  4. Aryan Embarrassment**
  5. TV Song 1/6 Edition
  6. New Religion
  7. It’s Not Pretty
  8. Cult of Suffering*
  9. Ricky’s Hand
*Featuring Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello)
**Featuring Jello Biafra
***Featuring Pepper Keenan

 

Ministry is now playing the new songs live on the band’s Spring 2024 tour, which kicked off February 27, supported by Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly. It runs through April 5 with tickets and VIP upgrades available now.

 

VIP upgrades are available and include:
  • Meet and Greet with Al Jourgensen
  • Ministry Back Patch
  • VIP Silkscreen Poster
  • Souvenir VIP Laminate w Lanyard
  • Crowd Free Merch Shopping.
Find more information at: https://tix.soundrink.com/tours/ministry

 

MINISTRY SPRING 2024 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
Joined By Gary Numan & Front Line Assembly

 

March 2024
20  Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek Casino
22  Cherokee, NC @ Harrah’s Cherokee
23  Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
24  Tampa, FL @ Jannus Landing
26  Birmingham, AL @ Avondale
27  Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Casino Biloxi***
29  Houston, TX @ House of Blues
30  Dallas, TX @ The Factory
31  Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa Theater

 

April 2024
2    Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
4    Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
5    Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre

 

***Front Line Assembly is not appearing

 

Ministry will also appear at Cruel World Festival on May 11 performing tracks from With Sympathy and Twitch.

 

For tickets and more information, visit www.ministryband.com/tour

 

(Photo by Derick Smith)

 

ABOUT MINISTRY
Born in 1981 in Chicago, Ministry has been the lifetime passion project of founder Al Jourgensen, considered to be the pioneer of industrial music. In its early days, Ministry was identifiable by its heavy synth-pop material in line with the new sounds and technology that were being developed in the ‘80s. Ministry’s output began with four 12” singles on Wax Trax! Records in 1981 before the first LP With Sympathy in 1983 via Arista Records. As time progressed however, so did Ministry, quickly developing a harsher, and more stylized sound that the band soon became infamous for on seminal albums Twitch (1986), The Land of Rape and Honey (1988), and The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (1989). With the release of Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs (1992), Ministry hit an all-time high in the mainstream musical realm and received its first Grammy nomination. In total, Ministry has been nominated for a Grammy award six times. Eight more albums would follow before an indefinite break in 2013, only to be unearthed again in 2018 with AmeriKKKant, continuing to reflect Jourgensen’s views on the frightening state of society and politics. The 2021 album Moral Hygiene marked a new creative era of Jourgensen and the band. Ministry’s 16th studio album, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES, was released March 1, 2024 via Nuclear Blast Records.

 

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