![]() THERE IS A HIP-HOP INFLUENCE IN THE SCRATCHING AND SOME OF THE BEATS, BUT OVERALL, THE SONGS ON AMERIKKKANT CONTAIN ELEMENTS OF DIRGY FILTH PIG–STYLE STUFF, FULL-THROTTLE PSALM 69 INDUSTRIAL THRASH AND MORE PSYCHEDELIC EXCURSIONS LIKE THE ONES ON FROM BEER TO ETERNITY. By the time I started playing it for people it was already a finished product. If it had sucked we wouldn't have finished it, but it really started coming together, especially towards the end of it. There was no label, no pressure, nothing. The way that I got together with these people and worked with them was very natural and a lot of fun. And then I worked with Lord of the Cello, who I met at a flea market. I used two really good turntable geniuses. Basically, a lot of different people came in and out, like, which I started using with SMM. I worked in a different way that was really chill. I was never at a lack of inspiration for this record. It progressed organically, but obviously, it was easily fueled by things that were going on in the world. I hadn't met Michael yet and didn't know who was going to be on it, I just knew I was gonna make one so I set about doing it. I worked with a new engineer, Michael Rosen, and it was a real learning process.Īll I knew was that on November 9 I woke up and said, "Yeah, it's time to make a fucking record." Other than that, I had no plan. There were albums Mikey wasn't on that were still Ministry. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE RECORDING EXPERIENCE THIS TIME AROUND?ĪL JOURGENSEN I've worked with so many people over the years. Video of MINISTRY - ANTIFA (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)ĪMERIKKKANT IS THE FIRST NEW MINISTRY RECORD SINCE THE DEATH OF MIKE SCIACCA. The latter has survived numerous lineups, multiple hiatuses and a few near-fatal experiences for Jourgensen himself, and, sadly, in recent years, the death of key players including Killing Joke bassist Paul Raven in 2007, and Al's guitarist and right-hand man Mike Scaccia, who died onstage in 2012 while performing with his other band Rigor Mortis. ![]() Since 1978, he has evolved from a pop musician to a pioneer of scathing industrial metal, and in the process dipped in and out of numerous projects, including Revolting Cocks, Lard and most prominently, Ministry. After all, resurrection, reinvention and survival are trademarks for the musician. Surgical Meth Machine was a transitional record for Jourgensen that allowed him to reconnect numerous elements from his past. When last we heard from industrial-metal pioneer Al Jourgensen, he was working with the new project Surgical Meth Machine, a clusterfuck of experimental rhythms, curmudgeonly rants and tongue-in-cheek songs that included a Devo cover and a song with Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra, which seemed to resurrect their Nineties punk-metal collaboration Lard.
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