It’ll be awhile before Ministry wind down their latest farewell tour, but frontman Al Jourgensen is already planning ahead. Speaking to Metal Hammer, Jourgensen did state that another Ministry tour may follow their ongoing adventures. Following that though, Jourgensen intends to team with engineer Sam D’Ambruoso in an outfit dubbed Surgical Meth Machine. He stated:
“We’re going to do one last tour as Ministry, maybe even another tour, because people seem to want to see it.”
“As far as future studio releases, since Mikey’s death, I decided it’s not the same. It would be like Zeppelin playing without Bonham or The Who playing without Moon or something like that. Me playing without Mikey doesn’t seem right.”
Regarding Surgical Meth Machine in particular, Jourgensen added:
“We decided to cut out the middle-men. Me and him [D’Ambruoso] are doing this music that’s just eyeball-popping. There’s nothing under 220pbm on there. It’s not for the faint of heart.”
“Mikey’s Middle Finger” is one of the last things Mike did before he died. Imagine a whole album of that – this is what we’re going for now. Straight mayhem. People are probably going to dismiss it as craziness – and that’s good. Craziness develops a future in music. You need the crazy.”
