The End of an Era

Ministry calls it quits while still on top of their game. Chicago native Al Jourgensen, along with his cohorts in Ministry, is delivering a final gut-wrenching blow to not only the music world, but also to the Bush Administration. "Obviously, my muse for the past six years has been George W.," said Jourgensen in a recent interview, "and he's going to be riding off into the sunset soon, so I figured I'd just go out with him." The Last Sucker, set for a mid-September release, is the third and final installment in Jourgensen’s musical raid upon George W. Bush following 2006’s Rio Grande Blood and 2004’s Houses of the Mole. In his over 25 year career as the brainchild behind Ministry, Jourgensen feels confident that The Last Sucker provides as an appropriate, musically encapsulating final studio album to his illustrious career with the band. "This is definitely a fitting end to it all, but that's just the way it came out. There's a couple songs left on a shelf somewhere in case I die in a plane crash and they want to release outtakes, but for the most part, we picked out the ones that made the record flow in a way that, as it turned out, encapsulated the Ministry sound."