MINISTRY: New Video Interview With SIN QUIRIN, AARON ROSSI

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Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with MINISTRY guitarist Sin Quirin and drummer Aaron John Rossi on the “black carpet” of the fourth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards, which was held on April 11 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, California. You can now watch the chat below.

MINISTRY’s new album, “Relapse”, sold 3,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 193 on The Billboard 200 chart. Issued on March 26, the CD was recorded last fall at mianman Al Jourgensen’s industrial compound studio in with his favorite co-conspirators Mike Scaccia (RIGOR MORTIS), Tony Campos (STATIC-X), Tommy Victor (PRONG) and Casey Orr (RIGOR MORTIS, GWAR).

Thirty years and 12 albums later, as well as a near-death experience in 2010, Jourgensen rises as a phoenix from the ashes with “Relapse” — still angry, still political and very very pissed off. Relapsing back into the music industry after a four-year hiatus, Jourgensen launches his audio assault with “Ghouldiggers”, a no-holds-barred metal bullet aimed directly at the pitfalls of the industry he has survived. Everything Jourgensen predicted on “Houses Of The Molé”, “Rio Grande Blood” and “The Last Sucker” has transpired and as we approach the Mayan calendar of the End of Days in 2012, Jourgensen, re-invigorated by the global 99 Percenters and Occupy Wall Street movement, navigates through “Relapse” once again as a reluctant prophet accusing, dissecting, cajoling and exhorting greed, corruption and lies.

Reaching back to his punk rock roots, Jourgensen and his MINISTRY pirates cover S.O.D.'s “United Forces” — a track written 20 years ago still relevant today as a call to arms for the unrighteous and to those who feel disenfranchised by the “system” as it stands today.

Cited as the driving force behind a cross-section of metal genres from industrial’s NINE INCH NAILS and STATIC-X to nu metal’s KORN, LINKIN PARK and LIMP BIZKIT, and receiving six Grammy nominations for “Best Metal Performance”, Jourgensen returns with his greatest achievement to date with “Relapse”.

“Relapse” track listing:

  1. Ghouldiggers
  2. Double Tap
  3. FreeFall
  4. Kleptocracy
  5. United Forces
  6. 99 Percenters
  7. Relapse
  8. Weekend Warrior
  9. Git Up Get Out 'n Vote
  10. Bloodlust
  11. Relapse Defibrillator Mix (Special Limited Edition)

Interview:

[url “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pR1CL5Ujg&feature=player_embedded”]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-pR1CL5Ujg&feature=player_embedded

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Change “reluctant prophet” of the press release to “give his left but to be thought of by anyone anywhere as a prophet” and you’ll have something that I suspect better resembles truth.

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I wonder how Al talked Sin into coming back to the fold.

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Suspect Sin doesn’t have a ton of other options.

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Maybe sin got cash up front.
Late,
grmpysmrf

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I’m actually more surprised that Al was willing to let Sin back into the band. Nothing against Sin, but I wouldn’t say he has added anything extremely unique to Ministry’s sound, and there are loads of other metal guitarists Al could hire.

I guess this means that “Double Tap” wasn’t necessarily recorded in the late '00s.

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He’s only on that one song isn’t he? The rest of it is Tommy Victor right?

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He’s only on that one song isn’t he? The rest of it is Tommy Victor right?

Yes, Sin is specifically credited as only appearing on Double Tap. As for the rest being Tommy Victor, not quite. Here are the songwriting credits:

Ghouldiggers - Jourgensen/Scaccia/Orr
Double Tap - Jourgensen/Quirin
Freefall - Jourgensen
Kleptocracy - Jourgensen/Victor
99 Percenters - Jourgensen/Victor/D’Amburoso
Relapse - Jourgensen
Weekend Warrior - Jourgensen/Scaccia/D’Amburoso
Git Up Get Out N’ Vote - Jourgensen/Victor
Bloodlust - Jourgensen/Victor

Unfortunately the album doesn’t have complete performance credits for the core members, so Mike and Tommy may or may not be present on the songs they weren’t credited with writing.

What is the touring lineup this year, anyway? If Sin is back in, does that mean either Mike or Tommy is out?

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From an interview with Victor:

Q: You’ve been busy with other projects … touring with Danzig and Al [Jourgensen, Ministry] …

A: I was out with him [Al] for a week but that’s the end of it. I’m not doing any more with him.

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^Can you post a link?

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Sure: http://www.digitaldiversion.net/2012/02/prong-february-16-2012/

I wish the interviewer would have followed up on that answer.

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From the rest of the context, he mentions Al a couple times, so I honestly don’t think that was a slam. Just more of a “I’m hear to talk about Prong, not Danzig/Ministry”

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I really have to question Quirin’s motives for going back to the Ministry crew after everything that happened.

I get the impression that people who are able to argue and break up and then kiss and make up like that really aren’t as tight as they come across as. The only thing keeping that sort of crew together is the booze/drugs/music. Once it’s gone…

NADA.

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I really have to question Quirin’s motives for going back to the Ministry crew after everything that happened.

Long time, no post. What exactly happened?

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I get the impression that people who are able to argue and break up and then kiss and make up like that really aren’t as tight as they come across as. The only thing keeping that sort of crew together is the booze/drugs/music. Once it’s gone…

Sin put out an ad like 2 years ago basically advertising himself as a gun-for-hire guitarist.

What exactly other than money would you question?

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Eureka, I’ve been flat out with full time work, four bands, refereeing, etc etc. Literally no time in the day. Today’s a public holiday and two guys from two of my bands are on tour with their other bands, so I get to chill for a couple of weeks.

JLW, I thought the issue with Sin and the Revco-3 was the fact they weren’t getting paid in the first place, if I recall correctly.

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Probably. It might also explain why he was on only one track. He probably got cash up front.

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From the rest of the context, he mentions Al a couple times, so I honestly don’t think that was a slam. Just more of a “I’m hear to talk about Prong, not Danzig/Ministry”

Yea, I thought I was reading too much into it too. But I just checked out a youtube interview where he says they had a falling out “about some stuff.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfdQPB8oomE

Around 9:00 ish.