I do really like FBTE, but some of the production i find a little bit overbearing. Overall it’s a good album.
On the Ministry Facebook today:
hello folks… FINALLY, some SMM news we can share… We’ve signed to Nuclear Blast… here’s the cover artwork… release dates coming soon…
This is good news. Cover art looks cool, and Nuclear Blast is a bigger label than Ministry has been on lately. Maybe he’ll actually sell a bunch of this one.
Nuclear Blast inking this project intrigues me. They would not waste their time on something unless they really like it. I had all but written this off but I may have to give it a fair shot now.
April 15th is the official release date.
Info and tracklist here:
I want that hot rod.
song coming tomorrow
https://twitter.com/nuclearblastusa/status/702932136165134337
World premiere of NEW @AlFknJourgensen’s #SurgicalMethMachine song “Tragic Alert” coming tomorrow…
I’m not sure if I’m excited or not.
Quoting Al from the Nuclear Blast page:
“I found that it was really unburdensome to not have the MINISTRY moniker or expectations and just do something like whatever the fuck we want.”
I’m not sure how successful he’s going to be with shedding “expectations” just because he doesn’t fly the Ministry banner anymore.
I mean, back in his glory days of juggling side projects, neither I nor anybody I knew thought they were going to sound significantly different from Ministry (and we didn’t really care, either, since it was fun stuff at the time). Whether it was Lard, RevCo, Pailhead, 1000 Homo DJs, PTP, etc., we actually anticipated it sounding like Ministry but with minor tweaks in song themes and level of seriousness.
There were always minor differences. PTP was VERY different compared to the stuff Ministry was doing at that time. Cocks were pretty similar with minor differences. Pailhead was Ministry, but with Ian. Lard is Lard.
I don’t expect much of a change from the new stuff aside from it being the same redundant speed metal he’s been shitting out for the last decade. I’ll check it out though (as I always do…).
Reminds me of Houses of the Mole.
I actually like it. It’s got (a lot of) elements of Al’s speed-metal crap, but there’s something else to it - something I can’t articulate - that distinguishes it from anything that came before.
I read an article on Al & Paul (in Alternative Press, no less) just before Filth Pig came out, and Al said (paraphrasing): I could play “Thieves” backwards and it would be a great lead single, but we didn’t want to do that. This SMM song sounds like that theoretical “great lead single.”
Not bad, pretty much about what i expected.
bleh
It sounds exactly like I initially expected it too.
Like butt.
Smelly dumb butt.
I might have dug it in 1992, when it would have sounded fresh and original and I was young and retarded. But it sounds to me like bad cliches 25 years late to the party.
I like it. Not as many guitars piled up on top of each other. Huge improvement over the 99% debacle.
Yeah, it’s what I expected. Basically Ministry. I kind of like it.
Look forward to the album.
It’s literally just 2004 and onward Ministry. I’m glad I’m not alone in thinking this.
I guess it’s cool? This project doesn’t sound like surgery or meth or really even a machine, hahahah.
Lies lies lies, surprise surprise.
It’s ok. Hopefully the rest of the album is a step above this track. I’ve been burnt out on this style for awhile.
I’m really looking forward to the Gates of Steel cover.
Grating.