MINISTRY have released "We Hate", the second single from "Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)" — the album Al Jourgensen has confirmed will be the band's last. It arrives on Cleopatra Records on October 30 and closes out a 45-year run that helped define industrial metal.
Jourgensen's contempt for U.S. president Donald Trump has never required much decoding, and "We Hate" does not start now. The track is a direct answer to Trump's near-daily Truth Social output, A.I.-generated videos and images included, aimed at a figure Jourgensen calls "Trumplethinskin". The video was directed by Joshua Bradford, formerly of REVOLTING COCKS.
The finality is not a marketing posture. "I'm fucking done," Jourgensen said. "I'm proud of what I've accomplished. I'm amazed at the path that it's taken, from 'With Sympathy' to where we're at today, and all points in between. It's been quite a ride, but I'm completely at peace with the fact that it's done. It's time to herd goats."
The numbers behind that statement are substantial: since 1981, MINISTRY have put out 17 studio albums and eight live releases, spawned eight side projects, toured five continents, produced an autobiography and two documentaries, and — by Jourgensen's own accounting — had last rites administered three separate times.
Album number 17 also brings back a piece of the classic era. Longtime member Paul Barker appears on the closing track, "We're Still Here", his first MINISTRY collaboration in years. The rest of the record features guitarists Monte Pittman and Cesar Soto, bassist Paul D'Amour, sampler and synth player John Bechdel, and drummer Pepe Clarke Magaña.
"Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)" track listing:
- Crickets
- Voices Of Hate
- Clown Car
- We Hate
- Delete
- Grifter
- The White Man Lied *
- Singularity
- Burned Out
- We're Still Here (feat. Paul Barker)
* Does not appear on the cassette or vinyl editions
The goodbye is being staged in two parts. A handful of U.S. dates remain in 2026 — Red Rocks on September 15, Louder Than Life on September 20, Chicago's Salt Shed on October 3 and Sick New World Texas on October 24 — before the "Goodbye Europe" tour with DIE KRUPPS opens in April 2027 and runs through Utrecht, Brussels, Manchester, Dublin, London, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona and more. A full U.S. run is still to be announced.
Here is the first single, "Burned Out", if you missed it:
Source: blabbermouth.net