Al Jourgensen\'s band Ministry may be releasing their final studio album, \'The Last Sucker\', on September 18 on 13th Planet/Megaforce Records, but that doesn\'t mean Jourgensen is saying good-bye to the inside of a recording studio.
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In fact, Jourgensen plans to spend more time in the studio doing what he loves best: collaborating.
And collaboration is at the root of \'Cover Up\', a soon-to-be-released album of some of Al\'s personal favorites being recorded by Ministry & Co-Conspirators in his El Paso, TX compound, 13th Planet Studios. \'Cover Up\' is expected to street in April 2008.
Co-conspirators Jourgensen enlisted an impressive group of co-conspirators for \'Cover Up\', including Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell (also of Ascension Of The Watchers), Tony Campos (bass) and Wayne Static (vocals) from Static-X, Prong\'s Tommy Victor (vocals), and Mountain\'s Leslie West (guitar).
Burton Bell sings on The Rolling Stones\' Under My Thumb, both Static-X members are featured on The Beatles\' I Want You (She\'s So Heavy), Tommy Victor and Leslie West (guitar) do justice to Mountain\'s classic Mississippi Queen.
\'Cover Up\' will also include Ministry\'s cover of The Doors\' Roadhouse Blues, as well as Ram Jam\'s Black Betty, Deep Purple\'s Space Truckin, Louis Armstrong\'s Wonderful World and Radar Love by Golden Earring.
Additional featured artists, including Cheap Trick\'s Robin Zander (vocals) and Rick Nielsen (guitar), and tracks are in the works.
\'The Last Sucker\' After 10 albums and 27 years (including a 2006 Grammy nomination for Lieslieslies from the \'Rio Grande Blood\' album, and a Grammy nod in 2005 for The Great Satan from \'Rantology\', Jourgensen has decided that the Ministry garage is ready to close its doors, but the revolving 13th Planet Studio doors remain open for Jourgensen\'s collaborations and also for upcoming new signings for his 13th Planet imprint
\'The Last Sucker\' is Ministry\'s 11th — and absolutely final — studio offering. The album was produced and recorded in the spring of 2007 by Jourgensen at his 13th Planet compound. Slipknot sticksman Joey Jordison played drums, Jourgensen and his engineer John \"Bixby\" Bilberry handled all the drum programming.
Ministry will support \'The Last Sucker\' with one final worldwide tour with a line-up including Jimmy DeGrasso (ex-Megadeth) on drums.
Al Jourgensen\'s band Ministry may be releasing their final studio album, \'The Last Sucker\', on September 18 on 13th Planet/Megaforce Records, but that doesn\'t mean Jourgensen is saying good-bye to the inside of a recording studio.
