Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records has released a brand new single — and the first new track in nearly two years — from the godfathers of industrial metal MINISTRY…
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=140973
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/thunderstruck-made-famous/id374557096
P.S. I can’t buy this track because I’m from Russia. Too bad
Odd. Is this legit? You’d think it’d be released by 13th Planet. Maybe a stolen leftover?
From the sample it sounds like someone tried to program the original song through a keyboard. That you sit there and press a button on a keyboard that says ‘Thunderstruck’( next to the ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ button which is next to the ‘Take it Easy’ button) and that is how it sounds.
Say what you will, but it’s pretty hilarious hearing Al sing AC/DC.
I kind of like his attitude now. The I’m just going to have fun and do what I want to do and not worry about what people fucking thing about it attitude.
Isn’t Ministry suppose to be done?
From the sample it sounds like someone tried to program the original song through a keyboard. That you sit there and press a button on a keyboard that says ‘Thunderstruck’( next to the ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ button which is next to the ‘Take it Easy’ button) and that is how it sounds.
lol
Cleopatra? Weird.
I kind of like his attitude now. The I’m just going to have fun and do what I want to do and not worry about what people fucking thing about it attitude.
That’s sorta-kinda my take on it, too.
I gotta snag this.
I can’t read the details at work (links are blocked), but wasn’t this a Cover Up leftover, or did he just record this recently? Either way, I’m not shocked to see something new under the Ministry moniker. Get ready kids, it’s only a matter of time before a whole new album surfaces! I’m sure Al will have his reasons for resurrecting Ministry.
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I’ll only accept a reformed Ministry if Paul returns. The Last Sucker suckered you into thinking it was gonna be a good album. At least a tour with Paul
That article on Blabber Mouth mentions a new album…
So much for that solo album, huh? Been awhile since i’ve even heard a peep about it.
I (for one?) hope that Paul does not work with Al again, but works with other more talented and dignified musicians. For his sake and for Ministry’s sake because Al is not going to revert back to his older superior Ministry style. So it would be like Paul giving in to old, mid-life crisis, braindead, depthless Al.
I know it won’t happen but I’d love if Paul was some how able to sequester the Ministry name from Al. Hell, so what if Al started it and was the main agent for the albums (probably disputable). Pink Floyd continued after ousting Barret, they continued after Waters left. If fatty old Gilmour could commandeer Pink Floyd, skinny old Barker could do the same with Ministry don’t believe everything you read.
The last solo track came out a month or so ago with the RevCo cd.
There’s a thread about it somewhere.
Downloading Thunderstruck now. Haven’t listened yet, but it can’t be as good as Birmingham 6’s version - THAT kicks ass.
EDIT: Listening now - like most of Cover Up, it’s not very good.
Is this some iTunes exclusive crap? Press it to a record/CD, or it never happened.
EDIT: Why is there no mention of this on the official Ministry site/Myspace?
It’s on mp3.amazon.com too.
That’s where I got it.
Honestly, it doesn’t deserve to be on a record/CD. Al probably gave it to Cleopatra in exchange for ten bucks and a sandwich or something.
That article on Blabber Mouth mentions a new album…
No it doesn’t.
Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records has released a brand new single — and the first new track in nearly two years — from the godfathers of industrial metal MINISTRY! Led by founding member, frontman/guitarist Al Jourgensen, the band’s sizzling remake of the AC/DC classic “Thunderstruck” is available on iTunes worldwide today and will be serviced nationwide to radio programmers courtesy of Skateboard Marketing. The special U.S.- only promotion will feature rare collectible prizes where the lucky winners will receive an autographed item from Al Jourgensen himself. Skateboard will also be servicing [white][size 5]the brand-new full-length album, to be released by Cleopatra later this year[/size][/white].
Not that this is in any way quaranteed accurate or official. The same guys broke the “news” that En Esch was replacing Till Lindemann in Rammstein, didn’t they?
I am completely lost here. Is Ministry done? Why are they messing with Cleopatra records? What happened to 13th Planet?
This news reminds me of the odd news that I used to get in High School on Ministry/Revco through Alternative Press or random interviews with Al and co. None of it ever made sense or was reliable.
Weird.
Oh, I skimmed over that and read it as some skateboarding magazine compilation or something.
I don’t think it means a new Ministry album. I don’t see Al doing that, not this soon. Like what’s changed in the past 2 years to make him change what he said for longer than that leading up to it?
Well, Al is a hypocrite… It is way too soon to even considering bringing back Ministry. Hope he doesn’t. Probably a comp album though.