I’M NOT SURE IF THIS WORLD SURVIVES
I CAN’T TELL YOU WHAT’S TRUTH OR LIES
IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU’RE LEFT OR RIGHT
WE’RE ALL DEAD UNLESS WE ALL UNITE
After more than four decades spent turning political disgust, technological dread, and distorted guitars into blunt-force industrial rock, Ministry is preparing to shut down the machinery. Al Jourgensen has announced that the band’s forthcoming album, Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery), will be its last, bringing one of heavy music’s loudest and most unruly careers to a close on October 30 through Cleopatra Records.
The first preview comes with Burned Out, a new single accompanied by a video directed by Joshua Bradford, formerly of Revolting Cocks. The title sounds like both a diagnosis and a resignation letter, which feels appropriate for a band that has spent decades staring directly at American power, institutional rot, religious hypocrisy, corporate greed, and the people who profit from keeping everyone exhausted and furious.
Jourgensen has rarely been shy about announcing exactly what he thinks of the world, and Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) gives him one final album-sized opportunity to unload. The record finds Ministry taking stock of those in charge, the damage they have caused, and whatever possibility remains for people trying to move forward together without surrendering their minds in the process.
Jourgensen is equally direct about his decision to end the band.
“I’m fucking done,” he says. “I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished. I’m amazed at the path that it’s taken, from With Sympathy to where we’re at today, and all points in between. It’s been quite a ride, but I’m completely at peace with the fact that it’s done. It’s time to herd goats.”
It is a characteristically Jourgensen farewell. Ministry’s history has never followed a clean route, moving from the synth-pop framework of With Sympathy toward increasingly abrasive combinations of industrial electronics, metal, punk, samples, drum machines, and political invective. Along the way, the group built a catalogue whose influence spread through alternative rock, industrial metal, electronic music, and nearly every basement club willing to risk its speaker system.
Burned Out surveys a planet apparently being administered by arsonists, war profiteers, algorithmic creeps, petty tyrants, and terminally online lunatics, while everybody else stares into the smoke wondering which official lie they are supposed to swallow today. Wars multiply, humanitarian disasters become background noise, the climate cooks, repression spreads, and domestic extremism crawls out of the basement wearing a flag. Beneath all that wreckage sits one stubborn plea: stand together before fear, division, and authoritarian power finish carving us into manageable pieces. The video turns the crisis into a parade of deranged animation, with Uncle Al planted at its center like the last sane man at the end of civilization, coat practically on, ready to abandon the madhouse before somebody asks him to save it.
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Since beginning in 1981, Ministry has released 17 studio albums, 8 live releases, 8 side projects, tours across 5 continents, an autobiography, 2 documentaries, and at least 3 occasions on which Jourgensen received last rites. The survival stories became inseparable from the music, turning the band’s continued existence into a running argument against medical probability and professional caution.
Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) also closes part of the Ministry story by reconnecting Jourgensen with longtime member Paul Barker. Barker appears on the album’s final track, We’re Still Here, marking one last collaboration between two musicians whose work together helped define Ministry’s most widely celebrated period.
The album also features Ministry’s current lineup, including guitarists Monte Pittman and Cesar Soto, bassist Paul D’Amour, sampler and synthesizer player John Bechdel, and drummer Pepe Clarke Magaña. Together, they provide the final formation behind a band that has spent 45 years treating complacency as an enemy and volume as a public service.
Ministry’s final album, Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery), is out October 30 through Cleopatra Records.
Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) will be available in several formats including vinyl, CD, cassettes and digital, also including several vinyl variants and box sets:
- Green & Black Splatter LP
- Silver & Black Splatter LP
- Coke Bottle Green LP
- Box Set: Green Splatter LP, Picture LP, 7-inch, CD
- Box Set: Purple Marble LP, Picture LP, 7-inch, CD
Fans can pre-save the digital album HERE and pre-order digital copies HERE, and find a new Ministry merch line HERE.
Ministry will bring tracks from Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) and other classic hits on the road in 2027 with an international goodbye tour. The Goodbye Europe Tour, featuring special guest Die Krupps, begins in April 2027. It will be followed by a full U.S. run, to be announced. European tour dates will include exclusive meet-and-greet opportunities with Al Jourgensen, featuring a photo op, a souvenir laminate pass, a silk-screen poster, and a final European tour coin.
Fans can purchase meet-and-greets here.
In the meantime, Ministry has a few final U.S. tour dates for 2026, including Chicago’s Salt Shed, the historic Red Rocks in Colorado and appearances at Louder Than Life and Sick New World Texas. Find more info and tickets at MinistryBand.com.
MINISTRY U.S. 2026 DATES
- September 15 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks
- September 20 Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life
- October 3 Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed
- October 24 Fort Worth, TX @ Sick New World Texas
MINISTRY GOODBYE EUROPE 2027 TOUR
- April 2 Utrecht, NL @ Ronda
- April 3 Saarbrücken, DE @ Garage
- April 4 Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
- April 6 Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
- April 7 Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia
- April 9 Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
- April 10 London, UK @ Troxy
- April 12 Paris, FR @ Bataclan
- April 14 Madrid, ES @ La Riviera
- April 15 Barcelona, ES @ Paral-lel
- April 17 Lausanne, CH @ Docks
- April 18 Munich, DE @ Tonhalle
- April 19 Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
- April 21 Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlín
- April 22 Warsaw, PL @ Progresja
- April 24 Berlin, DE @ Columbiahalle
- April 25 Hamburg, DE @ Grosse Freiheit 36
- April 26 Copenhagen, DK @ Amager Bio
- April 27 Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
- April 29 Stockholm, SE @ Fållan
- May 1 Helsinki, FI @ House of Culture
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