Ministry was last in Boston at Roadrunner performing to a hyped up crowd of young, old and older fans. The energy was through the roof both on and off stage. The show opened with Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly. It didn’t take long for a mosh pit of my peers (the oldest mosh pit I have witnessed in my life thus far) to come into play. Ministry’s first album With Sympathy came out in 1983 with an 80’s to the core synth pop identity. Since then, they have meandered their way through a lifetime of drugs and music styles to where they are today. Ministry’s newest album The Squirrely Years Revisited, as the album states, revisits Ministry’s roots with the lens of experience, age, and the opportunity to update things.
Since I hated my early stuff for decades, I decided to take ownership of it and do it right,
– Ministry founder Al Jourgensen.
Behind Al Jourgensen, is decades of music and touring, two overdoses that stopped his life momentarily, serious substance abuse, and a variety of other attacks on his body. Ministry front man Al Jourgensen, who is now 65 is planning the end of Ministry, his body of work an imperfect parcel of a pushed to the limits life’s work brought full circle with this latest album of re-released and reworked versions of their debut.
Ministry returns to Roadrunner in Boston on May 14th with special guests My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult and Die Krupps. Tickets can be purchased here. The The Squirrely Years Revisited Tour stops in over two dozen cities including Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Montreal and Toronto.
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