MINISTRY have not one, but two new albums on the horizon in-part due to the pandemic.
The first of those will be MINISTRY’s fifteenth studio album “Moral Hygiene“, which is slated for an October 1st release via Nuclear Blast. According to MINISTRY frontman Al Jourgensen, it seems work has already begun on that album’s follow-up effort.
Jourgensen recently told Loudwire how he spent his pandemic downtime, saying: “I felt like Jack Nicholson in The Shining before I got crazy and tried to axe my girlfriend — ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy…’
Seriously though, there was nothing to do. We took weekends off, but for 52 weeks we just kept recording and we wound up with this album and also finished up a new Lard album. We haven’t had a Lard album in forever and I’m still waiting on some tracks from Jello [Biafra]. We recorded here, then [Jello recorded] vocals in San Francisco and sent them back.
We also started working on a new Ministry record [to be released after Moral Hygiene] that we’re almost done with. Until we can go on tour, I just keep working. What else am I going to do? If I stay in the studio, the local crime rate stays down.”
There’s no word yet on a release date for that particular album as of yet.