MINISTRY: More Studio Footage From “Beer To Eternity” Sessions Posted

Tuesday, 3rd September 2013

MINISTRY has posted additional clips from the making of their forthcoming From Beer to Eternity album. The clips can be viewed below.

As fans of the band know, after last year there wasn’t going to be anotherMINISTRY album, but as Jourgensen put it recently, “I had no choice.”

Sessions for what would become “From Beer To Eternity” began last December at Jourgensen‘s 13th Planet compound in El Paso, Texas, withJourgensen (who produced the album, composed the music and wrote the lyrics for all 11 songs), guitarists Mike Scaccia and Sin Quirin, drummer Aaron Rossi and bassist Tony Campos. Rough tracks for 18 songs were finished on December 19, and three days later, the 47-year oldScaccia died from a heart attack he suffered onstage while playing a live show with his band RIGOR MORTIS in Dallas, Texas. JourgensenQuirin,Rossi and Campos were absolutely devastated.

“We have never, in the history of MINISTRY, ever had a tracking session like that before,” states Jourgensen. “Everything went so smoothly, it was surreal. And Mikey was so on fire and inspired, and really a driving force for this record.”

After returning from Scaccia‘s funeral in Dallas, and shouldering the weight of grief as well as the desire to honor his fallen comrade, Jourgensenlocked himself in his studio with his engineer and co-producer Sammy D’Ambruoso for three excruciating months. “There was no choice,”Jourgensen says of the bittersweet production process. “During the tracking sessions, Mikey was smiling and going, ‘You know what, Al? This is by far and away the best MINISTRY album we’ve ever done together. This is awesome.’

“I’m super proud of ‘From Beer To Eternity’, because it’s my tribute toMikey‘s incredible talent, and I feel it honors him and all of the years we spent together making music.”

From the schizophrenic opening cut, the sarcasm-dripping, sound effect-laden “Hail To His Majesty (Peasants)” to the thrash-punk riffs andbooming bass reverberations of “Punch In The Face”, to “Change Of Luck”, a song that Jourgensen wrote directly about Scaccia‘s death,“From Beer To Eternity” pulls no punches, sounding at once familiar, yet completely fresh and inspired. The release also includes “Side F/X Include Mikey’s Middle Finger / TV4”, which old-school MINISTRY fans will recognize as a continuum in a series of TV songs that began in the mid-1990s, and underscores Scaccia‘s birthright as one of the greatest metal guitarists in the world.

“PermaWar”, the first single from “From Beer To Eternity”, will drop digitally via iTunes in late July as a three-track maxi single. Additionally,13th Planet Records will be releasing special products for “From Beer To Eternity”, including a special limited-edition digipak with 13 tracks, a special FanBox edition, as well as vinyl and limited-edition 12-inch picture discs.

MINISTRY will support “From Beer To Eternity” with a cavalcade of music videos, off-the-wall making-of digital clips, and an ongoing “dog-blog” commentary by Jourgensen‘s two Labradors, Lemmy and Ozzy, who were present every step of the way during the recording and mixing of “From Beer To Eternity”, and have launched their own Facebookpage.

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