Information regarding Ministry's Al Jourgensen suing his ex-bandmate Paul Barker has recently been circulating the Internet. According to the official Los Angeles Superior Court website, case number SC094122, a case for tortious interference regarding contractual agreement has been filed by Al Jourgensen against Paul Barker and Spurburn music. Although documented in legal archives, this case has not yet been publicly confirmed by either side.

Paul Barker left Ministry in 2003, following the release of the album Animositisomina, citing musical differences and personal problems as the reason for this decision. The split seemed amiable and only now is evidence pointing to the contrary beginning to emerge. Since leaving Ministry, Barker has recorded an album as Pink Anvil and joined the band USSA.

More information about the case can be found under the address:
https://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/onlineservices/LAECourtOnlineIndex.htm

Source:	lasuperiorcourt.org
Band profile:	Ministry

Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen has revealed to Germany's Metal Hammer magazine that the group's previously announced "final" album, "The Last Sucker", will be followed by an all-covers release, tentatively due in 2008. According to Jourgensen, the as-yet-untitled effort will contain "a lot of different cover songs from various bands," some of which have already been released on Ministry albums over the years.

Ministry's upcoming covers album is expected to include the following tracks, among others:

Previously released songs:
"Supernaut" by Black Sabbath (from "Supernaut" EP)
"Lay Lady Lay" by Bob Dylan (from "Filth Pig")
"Roadhouse Blues" by The Doors (from "The Last Sucker")
"The Light Pours out of Me" by Magazine (from "Animosity")

New songs:
"I Want You" by The Beatles
"Under My Thumb" by The Rolling Stones
"Space Trucking" by Deep Purple
"Black Betty" by Ram Jam
"Radar Love" by Golden Earring

In a Piss Army (Ministry's Fan Club) post, Jourgensen's wife has stated that some guest appearances can be expected on the cover album. Apparently, Ogre from Skinny Puppy has been contacted; however, whether he will appear on the album is yet to be seen.

Ministry's "The Last Sucker" album will be released on September 18 via 13th Planet/Megaforce. A world tour will follow in 2008.

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Source:	metalhammer.co.uk
Band profile:	Ministry

"Recently the 13th Planet compound was visited by aliens from Amen and Fear Factory Casey Chaos (Amen) and Burton Bell (FF) hooked up with Uncle Al in the studio last week for some jammin'!!!" Burton C Bell is going to appear as a guest vocalist on Ministry's upcoming final record "Last Sucker". A final tour is set to follow and then Al Jourgensen will focus on running his label and recording the long overdue Buck Satan record.

In related news, 13th Planet has recently released a remix album of the Revolting Cocks' "Cocked And Loaded", titled "Cocktail Mixxx". The tracks have been remixed by Luc Van Acker, Clayton Worbeck and Phildo Owen. The tracklisting of the album is as follows:

1. Fire Engine (Gumby Mixxx) 5:08
2. 10 Million Ways to Die (Jammin' the Radar Mix) 4:20
3. Caliente (Searing Social Problem Mix) 4:50
4. Prune Tang (Prune Juice Cocktail Mix) 3:11
5. Dead End Streets (86 Mixxx) 5:49
6. Pole Grinder (It Hurts When I Piss Mix) 6:09
7. Jack In The Crack (Crackrock Mix) 3:38
8. Devil Cock (Sum Yunguy Mix) 4:00
9. Viagra Culture (Fat Juicy Hog Mix) 7:27
10. Revolting Cock Au Lait (Le Coq Au Lait Mix) 4:25
Bonus Track - CD Only
11. Fire Engine (Stayte of the Nation Mix) 6:66

Source:	ministrymusic.org
Band profile:	Ministry

Metal Hammer magazine recently hooked up with Ministry's Al Jourgensen and Mike Scaccia for a few glasses of vino before their London performance to talk about Ministry's "friends": writers, junkies, philosophers, occultists, psychedelic drug experimentalists and a whole host of other loonies. But not George W. Bush. Definitely not. Watch the interview here

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Source:	ministrymusic.org
Band profile:	Ministry

Ministry's days are numbered, according to group leader Al Jourgensen.

Jourgensen, who has led the group and its numerous side projects since 1981, says that after Ministry finishes its current MasterBaTour, he plans to go right back into the studio for what he says will be "the last Ministry album." And, he promises, this is no cheap ploy to get attention for the band.

"I've got other things to do," Jourgensen explains. "I just started a label (13th Planet Records), and I want to sign some bands and really build it up like I did with WaxTrax in the '80s, not just a vanity label. I think it's time -- and I'll be leaving on the top of my game instead of hanging on too long and doing crappy Aerosmith and Rolling Stones albums 30 years later."

"The next one's going to be called 'The Last Sucker,' and it's also about this corrupt administration. That seems to be my muse; everyone seems to think I write real shitty music when a Democrat's in office. So we'll do that one, and then me and George Bush go riding off hand-in-hand, into the sunset."

Source:	thegauntlet.com
Band profile:	Ministry

Ministry's new album "Rio Grande Blood" is featured on AOL's "First Listen" series where you can stream the entire album from May 1 to May 8. Check it out at this location.

Source : http://music.aol.com

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A recent interview with Ministry's frontman Al Jourgensen revealed a lot of important information about the band's future. Ministry wants to get rid of Bush so much on the next election that a special booth will be present on all of their US concerts which will be used to register voters agains Bush. Jourgensen himself is going to appear in this booth for two hours before every concert and do whatever is neccessary to convince young people to take part in the upcoming election (only 30% of the 18-29 demographic took part in the previous election).

Ministry is also planning a worldwide tour in support of their upcoming album, Houses Of The Mole, scheduled for a June 22 release. Supposedly, this might be a co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails, also scheduled to release a new album in the near future.

A video for the first single off the new Ministry album, "No W" is going to be shot in the first week of June and is supposed to put Jourgensen on the first place of the White House hate list.

In related news, Jourgensen and other members of the legendary industrial parody band Revolting Cocks are in the studio at the moment and recording material for an album to be released in August.

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Bassist Paul Barker has left MINISTRY after 18 years with the industrial-metal pioneers, according to MTV.com.

"Last summer Al was extremely enthusiastic about the possibilities of what the band could do, and I wasn't as excited. I thought, 'What are we going to do and what am I going to get out of it?' and I realized that now would be the perfect time to bow out," Barker told MTV.com.

According to Barker, his decision to leave the band was cemented by the death of his father on the final night of MINISTRY's summer European tour.

"When something like that happens, you tend to reassess what the hell you're doing and wonder what it's all about and whether it's ultimately satisfying," Barker said. "I kept thinking, 'What have I learned in the past 18 years?' "

Barker told MTV.com that he plans to produce other groups and write music on his own.

"I wanna make big, ugly, heavy music because that's what I love," he said. "But it's pop music. It has verses and choruses. It's not abstract and experimental."

MINISTRY have hired John Monte (ex-MIND FUNK, M.O.D.) to replace Barker, and they're in the studio in Tornillo, Texas, working on the follow-up to 2003's "Animositisomina", titled "Houses of the Molé". A late spring release through Sanctuary Records is expected.

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