MINISTRY – Announce “Relapse” Release Date

MINISTRY has announced the release of their comeback album titled “Relapse” via 13th Planet
Records to be on March 3rd, 2012.

In related news, MINISTRY has scheduled the following U.S. tour dates for June 2012:

06/17/2012 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
06/21/2012 – Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia
06/23/2012 – New York, NY @ Best Buy Theater
06/28/2012 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre
06/29/2012 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic Theatre

Tickets for Ministry’s 2012 Relapse U.S. tour go on pre-sale to Ministry Facebook fans and e-store customers September 16 at 10 a.m. venue time, one week prior to the public on-sale September 23. You do not have to join a fan club or pay fan club access for this pre-sale.

Denver, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago are the only U.S. cities in which Ministry will be performing in 2012. They will not be adding any more cities to the Relapse 2012 tour, as the band is scheduled to perform in Europe July 1, 2012 (city and venue to be announced).

Click here for more information and to buy tickets.

Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen spoke to U.K.’s Metal Hammer magazine about his band’s decision to reform for a new album and tour, including an appearance at next year’s Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany.

When asked how the resurrection of Ministry came about, Jourgensen said, “While I was working on [the Buck Satan record], me and Mike Scaccia from Rigor Mortis f–ked around to pass the time and we had like, 5, 6, 7 songs and I didn’t really want to do anything with them but Mikey was like, ‘Dude, these songs are awesome.’ They weren’t country, they were more like Ministry. So he’s coming by in September and Tommy Victor’s [Prong; guitar] coming by in October with Tony Campos [Soulfly, ex-Static-X; bass] and we’re gonna finish up and put out another Ministry album by Christmas called ‘Relapse’.”

Source: Metalunderground/Blabbermouth.net

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