Monday, June 16, 2014

MINISTRY TO RELEASE LIVE DOUBLE CD/DVD

Ministry, the legendary, six-time Grammy-nominated, explosive and highly unpredictable band that brought industrial dance-metal music to the mainstream, will release “Last Tangle in Paris,” a CD/DVD package that documents the band’s 2012 “DeFiBriLaTour,” featuring live performances, in-studio, rehearsal and backstage footage, and one-on-one interviews.



“Last Tangle in Paris,” an artistic collaboration between UDR Music and 13th Planet Records, Inc., is set for a July 8 North American release and will be available in 2-CD and DVD digipak, BluRay and 2-CD Amaray, 2 X vinyl Gatefold 160 gram configurations, digital audio and video, and as a simple CD package.  Check out the project’s video trailer here and the EPK here.  Pre-orders can be placed at Amazon.


“Last Tangle In Paris” was filmed on July 28, 2012 at Paris’ La Cigale, and features Jourgensen (lead vocal, guitar), Michael Scaccia and Sin Qurin (guitars), John Bechdel (keyboards and samplers), Aaron Rossi (drums), and Casey Orr (bass).  Content includes Ministry classics such as “Psalm 69,” “N.W.O.,” and “Just One Fix” (full track listing is below).  As a special bonus, the digipak version comprises a Ministry tour retrospective double audio album with live performances dating back to 2006.  The package was executive produced by Angelina Lukacin Jourgensen and directed by Zach Passero; all artwork was created by Sam “Mister-Sam” Shearon.


The full track listing for “Last Tangle In Paris” is as follows:


DVD/BluRay and Audio CD Track Listing:

Ghouldiggers

No “W”

Senor Peligro

LiesLiesLies

99%ers

Life Is Good

Relapse

The Last Sucker

Psalm 69

New World Order

Just One Fix

Thieves


CD1/Retrospective Track Listing:


Ghouldiggers

No “W”

Senor Peligro


Rio Grande Blood

99%ers

Life Is Good

Relapse

The Last Sucker


CD/Retrospective Track Listing:

Psalm 69

New World Order

Just One Fix

Thieves

Khyber Pass

Fear is Big Business

Let’s Go

Watch Yourself

So What



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ABOUT MINISTRY/AL JOURGENSEN

Al Jourgensen, dubbed “godfather of industrial metal,” is an iconic, pioneering rock star, producer, and songwriter, author of a revealing and critically-acclaimed autobiography (“Ministry:  The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen”), a comic book super-hero through his upcoming “The Devil’s Chord” series, has indulged in every rock’n’roll decadence imaginable, survived drug addiction and alcohol abuse, crossed paths with the likes of Madonna, Courtney Love, Robert Plant and Johnny Depp, and is likely the most audacious and defiant person on the planet.


Through his biting and provocative lyrics and music videos, the Cuban-born, U.S.-raised Jourgensen has taken on greed, corruption, hypocrisy, capitalism, conservatism, America’s repetition and persistence of war, the predatory business man and possibly most dangerous of all, the passive observer.



The band has been nominated six times for a Grammy Award, twelve of their studio albums have charted on


Billboard’s Top 200 Albums, and five of the band’s tracks were Top 20 singles, including “Jesus Built My Hotrod” and “N.W.O.”  In addition, the band has had a number of songs on soundtracks including the feature films “The Matrix,” “Saw 3″ and “Saw IV,” “Wicked Lake” and “Escape From L.A.,” and the long-running TV series, “N.C.I.S.”  At the specific request of the legendary director Stanley Kubrick, the band appeared in the Steven Spielberg film “A.I.:  Artificial Intelligence,” and wrote the song “What About Us?” for the film.



Having first formed in 1981, Jourgensen disbanded Ministry for good in 2013 after the unexpected death of the band’s long-time guitarist Mike Saccia.