more details for The Last Sucker set for release 9-18-07

Revco · July 5, 2007, 11:08am

What do MINISTRY’s Al Jourgensen and President George W. Bush have in common? Besides not a whole heck of a lot, both will soon be moving on from their current gigs. Yes, the last-ever MINISTRY studio album, “The Last Sucker”, will be released on September 18 (13th Planet/Megaforce) followed by a world tour in 2008, and then, after 11 studio albums and 27 years, including four Grammy nominations (“N.W.O.” in 1993, “Bad Blood” in 2000, “The Great Satan” in 2005, and the “Rio Grande Blood” track “LiesLiesLies” in 2006), Jourgensen will lay MINISTRY to rest and focus on expanding his borderland compound, 13th Planet Records.

“I’ve got a lot of side-projects and new projects I want to focus on,” explained Jourgensen. “We have our our own label, 13th Planet Records, we’re building, and I want to sign, produce and collaborate with other artists. Being in the studio writing, recording and collaborating is my favorite part of this snake-oil industry. I’d rather be behind the console than behind the mic. Plus, I kinda like the synchronicity of Dubya and MINISTRY riding off into the sunset hand in hand.”

In addition to being MINISTRY’s final studio album, the 11-track “The Last Sucker” is the third in an unrelenting and uber-critical CD trilogy aimed at exposing the plethora of foils, failures and fabrications perpetrated by the George W. Bush administration. “The Last Sucker”, which follows “Houses of the Mole” (2004) and “Rio Grande Blood” (2006), is the final nail in the Dubya coffin. To represent the Prez accurately, Jourgensen interspersed snippets of Dubya sound bites and samples throughout “The Last Sucker”. “My engineer and I were hunched over a computer for nights on end listening to this fucking idiot until our minds were numb,” he said. “I mean, I’m absolutely stupider for listening to his drivel for such concentrated periods of time, but I viewed including these sound bites as a necessary evil.”

Another prime target in the Bush administration who takes it on the chin from Jourgensen’s finger-pointing on “The Last Sucker” is our beloved Veep. The track “The Dick Song” pretty much sums up Jourgensen’s sentiment: “I’ve got a person that scares me to death…First name is Dick and you all know the rest… Dick Cheney Son of Satan…He is the Chosen One.” The new album also features a propane-powered cover of THE DOORS’ “Roadhouse Blues”, and the album’s dual closers, “The End of Days” (Parts One and Two) captures every single element of MINISTRY’s pioneering uniqueness in the world of industrial music.

“The Last Sucker” was produced and recorded this past spring by Jourgensen at his 13th Planet compound just outside of El Paso, TX, and sees the return of “Rio Grande Blood” musicians Thomas Victor (PRONG) on guitars, Paul Raven (KILLING JOKE, PRONG) on bass, with newcomer guitarist Sin Quirin from THE REVOLTING COCKS 2006 touring line-up. Jourgensen and his engineer John “Bixby” Bilberry handled all the drum programming. In addition, Burton C. Bell from FEAR FACTORY makes a vocal appearance on “Die In A Crash”, as well as the album’s final two songs, “End of Days” parts One and Two.

Jourgensen, whom the Chicago Sun-Times’ music critic Jim DeRogatis called “smart, outrageous [and] bitingly funny,” remembered, “I lived through Watergate. I was twelve years old and already briefed and reading the [Watergate] papers, so I was very cognizant at an early age of the corruption that can exist in the U.S. government. So I don’t grab my heart and have a heart attack over the ‘shock’ of how corrupt things are today.”

“The Last Sucker” track listing:

Let’s Go
Watch Yourself
Life Is Good
The Dick Song
The Last Sucker
No Glory
Death and Destruction
Roadhouse Blues
Die In A Crash
End of Days Part One
End of Days Part Two

catgoat · July 5, 2007, 11:14am

hmm

Tenohtwo · July 5, 2007, 12:18pm

Wait, no live drums on this one? The article mentions drum programming and guitarists, but no drummer. Is Jordison still part of the line-up?

I’m curious if “Watch Yourself” will be some sort of distant cousin to “The Missing”. Same track no., title matches a lyric…could be some sort of easter egg for the fans. Ok, probably reaching on that one.

Those lyrics for “The Dick Song”…hoo boy. I just cramped my face from cringing so hard. A little worried about the Doors cover, too, though I’ll admit I’m unfamiliar with that song (the title doesn’t ring a bell, anyway). Fingers crossed that it’s good.

1002

pseudonyme · July 5, 2007, 1:17pm

a video of Roadhouse blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNAB9WekwI

voidhead · July 5, 2007, 2:42pm

Wait, no live drums on this one? The article mentions drum programming and guitarists, but no drummer. Is Jordison still part of the line-up?

I’m curious if “Watch Yourself” will be some sort of distant cousin to “The Missing”. Same track no., title matches a lyric…could be some sort of easter egg for the fans. Ok, probably reaching on that one.

Those lyrics for “The Dick Song”…hoo boy. I just cramped my face from cringing so hard. A little worried about the Doors cover, too, though I’ll admit I’m unfamiliar with that song (the title doesn’t ring a bell, anyway). Fingers crossed that it’s good.

1002

I think Al doing a cover is probably better news than an original song at this point. And why the fuck is the Fear Factory dude appearing on the last two Ministry songs EVER?!?

pseudonyme · July 5, 2007, 3:22pm

And why the fuck is the Fear Factory dude appearing on the last two Ministry songs EVER?!?

good point.

Revco · July 5, 2007, 3:33pm

They covered [#ffffff]Thieves[/#ffffff] during the last tour [tongue]

Stairwell · July 5, 2007, 5:09pm

I thought they were doing an album of covers?

Ice · July 5, 2007, 6:09pm

Let’s just hope Al recovers from his last two studio collections of political mediocrity.

gila · July 5, 2007, 6:10pm

the covers cd plan was ditched, it seems

Peligro · July 6, 2007, 6:32am

nuMinistry are to industrial music what Space Balls is to intelligent science fiction - a joke that’s less funny everytime you hear it.

zick · July 6, 2007, 7:55am

I think Al doing a cover is probably better news than an original song at this point. And why the fuck is the Fear Factory dude appearing on the last two Ministry songs EVER?!?[/reply]

Burton C. Bell has been licking Al’s arse for as long as I can remember. They cover Ministry regularly. They released a cover version of ‘Burning Inside’ years ago that had yer man from Static X on it aswell. I believe Barker produced some stuff for them too. Bell hardly strikes me as someone you would step over your grandma to get on a record. Al could have reached a bit higher for his last record. Interested to hear how the Doors cover will go though.

Ice · July 6, 2007, 10:55am

the covers cd plan was ditched, it seems

Which is a crying SHAME…

catgoat · July 6, 2007, 11:10am

screw that, burton rocks. aside from the mis-steps of digimortal, i love this fucking band. dino or no, they still put on a intense, high energy show. i think it’s great burton is on the record. sure, he may not be the first person i’d choose to be on the last ministry record, but i don’t think Paul Barker is an option at this point. unfortunate.

his vox are all “dry-lung” and screamy, and then the melodic stuff . me likey.

i’m still apprehensive about the new record, my gay love for burton aside.

Revco · July 10, 2007, 12:49pm

[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]Death & Destruction
Jourgensen/Quirin
Words: Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

You go to war without a care in the world
No matter what the cost
Must be a reason for all this treason
It never mattered if we won or lost

You want it
You got it
You break it
You bought it

Stuck in the middle of a civil war
Well what the fuck do you expect
Our occupation of other nations
Is bound to have a fuckin violent effect

You want it
You got it
You brake it
You bought it

So what, you always try to go to war
but you never went
It doesn’t matter if blood is splattered
We make a killing off the ones that we send

You want it
You got it
You brake it
You bought it[/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]Die In A Crash
Jourgensen/Victor/Bell
Words: Bell/Jourgensen/Victor
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

Can you feel the pressure of life? (I can feel it)
You surviving through the mess and the strife? (I’m trying)
Do you feel that you’re living a lie? (Goddamn)
Are you consumed by the passionate crime? (I am)
Become a rascal and a scandalous type
And I just can’t take this anymore!

I can feel it
I can feel the pressures of this life!

Turn away don’t show your face
Forget your future is lost
Consumed by rage, eyes full of hate
I pray for holocaust
God damned us all to hell to make us pay
Abandoned into immorality
I hate today, I hate your tomorrow
I hate the way that no soul seems
to fucking care no more

I can feel it
I can feel the pressures of this life

Live fast, die in a crash!
Live fast, die in a crash![/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]End of Days Part One
Jourgensen/Victor/Raven/Bell
Words: Bell/Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

Judgment day’s upon us and I see no one cares.
Lies for death in pools of blood and I’m stoned with fear.
A trigger happy finger solves a problem not a prayer.
I see this world falling apart and I fucking swear

It is the end of days
It is the end of days
We’ve clearly lost our way

Revelations, dissipation, condemnation
dissolution, do you feel like you’re under a gun?
Desperation, condemnation, indignation, terror nation
That’s what the world is today!
Hey! Hey!

It is the end of days
It is the end of days
We’ve clearly lost our way

Judgment day is upon us, I don’t care.
Judgment day is upon us, do ya fear?
I’m in a world of shit, I don’t care![/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]End of Days Part Two
Jourgensen/Victor/Raven/Bell
Words: Bell/Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

As the future unfolds in the end of days
Judgment of our times in biblical ways
Our man made gods, genocide is faith
Idea warfare has been engaged
Cannot trust your fellow man at all these days
Sycophants out looking to get paid
Images burned into my face
Pangs of Distress salt my flesh to flay

I constantly fear everything I see
Blood is the fist of authority
Pestilence is my rabid dog unchained
Another road sign marks the end of days
I disregard those who govern me
I hate all of this treachery
I numb my mind and try to walk away
Toward the trail of tears and to the end of days

Face down on pavement and drunk at the end of my days
I hang from a noose that was made to slowly decay
The pangs of distress salt my flesh to slowly flay
Face down on pavement and drunk at the end of my days
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]Let’s Go
Jourgensen/Quirin
Words Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

Let’s go to the edge of disaster
Push the pedal and go a little faster
Let’s slam into a wall at ramming speed
Let’s go to the edge of a mountain
Jump off and lets start countin’
Hit the ground and tell me if it bleeds

Let’s go insane
Let’s go insane

Let’s go to the edge of reality
Let’s go for total insanity
Let’s go for a government based on greed
Let’s go for the final attack
Let’s go for a war in Iraq
Let’s go for starting up World War III

Let’s go insane
Let’s go insane
Make my reservation

Let’s go for the ultimate crime
Let’s go for the end of time
Let’s go for an ethnic killing spree
Let’s go for the final battle
Let’s slaughter them all like cattle
Let’s go to our graves in victory

Let’s go insane
Let’s go insane

Let’s go!..insane[/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]Life Is Good
Jourgensen/Quirin
Words: Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

What do you say to the ones you love
About the shit you’ve seen?
Third time back from the war in Iraq
A never ending dream
Bodies & limbs scattered all over town
It’s all I ever see
Come back home to the same ol’ shit
There’s nothing here for me

Life is good!

What do you say to the best of friends
When they ask what it’s like?
I tell them I kill everything that moves
Within my rifle site
I look into the eyes of my unborn child
And I tell you what I see
The same damn eyes as a day old corpse
On a highway full of IEDs

Life is good!

What do you say to the guy on the street
Who wants to shake your hand
I’d rather take him down then talk to him later
You wouldn’t understand
I didn’t ever really wanna be this way
But this is what I’ve become
Can’t wait to see my unit again
To live and die by the gun

Life is good![/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]No Glory
Jourgensen/Victor
Words: Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

Greed
Power
Corruption

One thing’s for certain
We fucking work for Haliburton
One thing is clear
They’re the fuckin reason why were here
Who the fuck’s in charge?
Cause no one seems to want the job
Haliburton soldiers
Overrun by angry mobs

Our Deaths Our Guts No Glory! No Glory

Greed
Power
Corruption

Blackwater and Bechtel
Taking us down a path to hell
Dying for nothing
Except to make their pockets swell
Mission accomplished
Bush is having fun again
The only thing accomplished
Is making money for his friends

Our Deaths, Our Guts, No Glory! No Glory

Greed
Power
Corruption

The congress, the senate
I guess they just dont get it
An act of war was signed
And no one even read it
The public, the papers
We’re on to all your schemes
So’s the Army, the Air Force,
The Navy and Marines

Our Deaths Our Guts No Glory! No Glory

Greed
Power
Corruption[/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]Roadhouse Blues
Morrison/Krieger/Manzerek/Densmore
©Doors Music Company

I’ll tell you this man,
All i wanna do is have my
kicks before this whole shit
house goes up in flames

Keep your eyes on the road,
Your hands upon the wheel.
Keep your eyes on the road
Your hands upon the wheel.
Yeah, we’re going to the roadhouse,
Gonna have a real good-time.

Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, all night long.

Well, the back of the roadhouse,
They’ve got some bungalows.
Yeah, the back of the roadhouse,
They’ve got some bungalows.

And thats for the people
Who like to go down slow.

Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, all night long.

Ashen-Lady.
Ashen-Lady.
Give up your vows.
Give up your vows.
Save our city.
Save our city.
right now.

Well, I woke up this morning
And I got myself a beer.
Well, I woke up this morning
And I got myself a beer.

The future’s uncertain
And the end is always near.

Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, baby, roll.
Let it roll, all night long.[/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]The Dick Song
Jourgensen/Quirin
Words: Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

I’ve got something to get off my chest
I’ve got a person that scares me to death
First name is Dick and you know the rest
Well I’ve got something I just got to say
This vice president will make us pay
We’re inching closer to judgment day

My name is Cheney I got no remorse………… run run run Cheney’s got a gun
I get my way or I get to use force - on anyone
You know he’s evil, he’s not of this race………. run run run Cheney’s having fun
He used a shotgun to blow off a face
He’s still not done

Dick Cheney Son of Satan
He is the Chosen One

He’s starting wars at the drop of a hat………… run run run Cheney’s got a gun
He says he’s certain he’s driving them back
Were almost done
Let’s have another let’s fuck with Iran………. run run run Cheney’s having fun

It pleases Satan
When there’s blood on the hands
Of his Number One

Dick Cheney Son of Satan
He is the Chosen One

The smell of money keeps him alive………… run run run Cheney’s got a gun
He thinks it’s funny when the bodies arrive
What’s done is done

The occupation of Satan is near………. run run run Cheney’s having fun
Now Revelations is oh so near
For everyone

Dick Cheney Son of Satan
He is the chosen one[/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]The Last Sucker
Jourgensen/Victor
Words: Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

Born and raised in the USA
I got a different type of DNA
I got a bloodline from Texas to Maine
We run the world like a parlor game

I got twins and a stepford wife
I never had to work a day in my life
I never studied but got my degree
I never had to with my family tree

Now I’m the last sucker
Now I’m the last one
No longer in charge
Of anyone!

I got others tell me what to say
I’m like an actor in a tragic play
They give me speeches
I cant understand
It doesn’t matter
As long as no one else can

Now I’m the last sucker
Now I’m the last one
No longer in charge
Of anyone!

Last sucker sorry fucker
Nice try
Last sucker Sorry fucker
Bye bye

Now it’s my turn for something to say
You made me king so I could have my way
The people hate me and I don’t know why
They hate me more with each and every lie

Now I’m the last sucker
Now I’m the last one
No longer in charge
Of anyone!

Last sucker Sorry fucker
Nice try
Last suckerSorry fucker
Bye bye[/size][/#ffffff][/font]
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[font “Verdana”][#ffffff][size 2]Watch Yourself
Jourgensen/Raven
Words: Jourgensen
© 13th Planet Music, Inc. 2007

Watch yourself
Someone’s watching
Watching you
Big brother
Will discover
Just what you do

Someone’s watching
Someone’s listening
Watch yourself
Someone’s watching
Someone’s listening
Watch yourself
Someone wants information
Watch yourself
Someone wants your deportation
Watch yourself

Just watch yourself
There is no running away
This is the U.S.A.
There is no running away
Just watch yourself

Someone’s watching
Someone’s listening
Watch yourself
Someone’s watching
Someone’s listening
Watch yourself
Someone wants interrogation
Watch yourself
Someone wants extermination
Watch yourself

Just watch yourself
There is no running away
This is the world that we live in today
There is no running away
Just watch yourself

Someone’s watching
Someone’s listening
Watch yourself
Someone’s watching
Someone’s listening
Watch yourself
Someone’s spying on the nation
Watch yourself
Someone wants annihilation
Watch yourself

Just watch yourself
There is no running away
This is the U.S.A.
There is no running away
Just watch yourself

Just watch yourself
There is no running away
This is the world that we live in today
There is no running away
Just watch yourself[/size][/#ffffff][/font]

Revco · July 10, 2007, 12:50pm

[#ffffff]13th Planet / Soulfood
2007

Cast n credits:

Produced by: Alien Jourgensen & Dave Donnelly
Engineered by: John Bilberry
Recorded & Mixed at 13th Planet Studios, El Paso, TX www.thirteenthplanetstudios.com
Drum Programming: Alien Jourgensen & John Bilberry
Mastered by Dave Donnelly/DNA Mastering, Studio City, CA
Art Direction, Design & Layout: Lawton Outlaw www.outlawnow.com

All songs performed by Ministry®™
Alien Jourgensen: Vox, Guitars, Bass, Harmonica, Programming
Thomas M. Victor: Guitars, Bass, B/g Vox
Paul Raven: Bass, Guitars, B/g Vox
Sin Quirin: Guitars, Bass
John Bechdel: Keyboards
Burton C. Bell: Vox/Die In A Crash/EoD I & II[/#ffffff]

Deftera · July 10, 2007, 1:40pm

[#ffffff]13th Planet / Soulfood
2007

Cast n credits:

Produced by: Alien Jourgensen & Dave Donnelly
Engineered by: John Bilberry
Recorded & Mixed at 13th Planet Studios, El Paso, TX www.thirteenthplanetstudios.com
Drum Programming: Alien Jourgensen & John Bilberry
Mastered by Dave Donnelly/DNA Mastering, Studio City, CA
Art Direction, Design & Layout: Lawton Outlaw www.outlawnow.com

All songs performed by Ministry®™
Alien Jourgensen: Vox, Guitars, Bass, Harmonica, Programming
Thomas M. Victor: Guitars, Bass, B/g Vox
Paul Raven: Bass, Guitars, B/g Vox
Sin Quirin: Guitars, Bass
John Bechdel: Keyboards
Burton C. Bell: Vox/Die In A Crash/EoD I & II[/#ffffff]

Best news about the album, return of the harmonica!

Wait, hopefully it’s not just for Roadhouse Blues.

Amlux · July 11, 2007, 6:23am

Hmmmmm…lyrics aren’tt he best. I don’t agree with Jourgenson’s stand on Iraq - but that’s not it. If they were well written I wouldn’t mind. I prefered it when Ministry did dreamy/creepy weird shit like Golden Dawn.

Still, am kinda hoping the album farewells Ministry in a bright light - it’s a distinguished career that many musos would kill to have.

Peligro · July 11, 2007, 6:45am

You go to war without a care in the world
No matter what the cost
Must be a reason for all this treason
It never mattered if we won or lost
…
…

So what, you always try to go to war
but you never went
It doesn’t matter if blood is splattered
We make a killing off the ones that we send

AWFUL!!! You could imagine that, if The Dixie Chicks decided to form a thrash metal band tomorrow and write ‘political’ lyrics it would sound a little like this. This is just awful…espcially from an artist with twenty five years industry experience and more than just one life altering album under his belt.

It would actually be funny if it weren’t so true!!

THREE - count them - THREE!!! albums in a row of anti-Bush sentiment over the Iraq invasion!! Boy oh boy! To put that into perspective, imagine how stupid Black Sabbath, Zeppelin or Pink Floyd would have looked today if in the early seventies they had put out three freakin’ albums dedicated to Nixon’s involvement in Watergate. Get the picture? No, probably not (who am I kidding?) but there it stands.

Ice · July 11, 2007, 1:18pm

You know, I’ll probably buy this, listen to it a few times, throw it across the room, and then give “Twitch” its millionth and a half spin and wonder what the fuck happened.