After years of vehemently hating the first two, synth pop-heavy Ministry records – With Sympathy from 1983 and Twitch from 1986 – Al Jourgensen is finally making peace with the past with a new record called The Squirrely Years Revisited. The record is out March 28 and offers reworked versions of Ministry cult classic hits like “Everyday Is Halloween,” “Work For Love,” “I’m Not An Effigy,” and “I’ll Do Anything For You.” The Squirrely Years Revisited runs as follows:
- Work For Love
- Here We Go
- All Day
- Everyday Is Halloween
- Revenge
- I’m Not An Effigy
- I’m Falling
- Same Old Madness
- I’ll Do Anything For You
- Just Like You (CD only)
- We Believe (CD only)
- Over The Shoulder (CD only)
To celebrate the album and the new-old era of Ministry, the band will embark on The Squirrely Years Tour beginning April 29, with a set dominated by Jourgensen‘s earliest works. Opening support will come from Ministry‘s old-school comrades, including Nitzer Ebb for the first half of the tour, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult for the second half of the tour; and Die Krupps on all dates.
“Since I hated my early stuff for decades, I decided to take ownership of it and do it right,” said Jourgensen. Pre-orders for The Squirrely Years Revisited are available here and tickets for the below trek are available here. Also, I’m warning you now – the artwork for The Squirrely Years Revisited is a squirrel with a huge boner.
It’s also worth noting the press release states The Squirrely Years Revisited “comes ahead of the final new studio album from Ministry in 2026, a record that has Jourgensen teaming up with Paul Barker once again.”
Ministry, Die Krupps & Nitzer Ebb
4/29 Phoenix, AZ Van Buren
4/30 Albuquerque, NM Revel
5/2 Austin, TX Emo’s
5/3 Houston, TX House of Blues
5/4 Dallas, TX Factory
5/6 Atlanta, GA The Eastern
5/8 Columbus, OH Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival
5/9 Chicago, IL Riviera
5/10 Detroit, MI Masonic Cathedral
5/12 Baltimore, MD Soundstage
Ministry, Die Krupps & My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
5/13 Philadelphia, PA Franklin Music Hall
5/14 Boston, MA Roadrunner
5/16 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
5/17 Montreal, QC MTelus
5/18 Toronto, ON History
5/20 Minneapolis, MN Palace
5/21 Winnipeg, MB Burton Cummings Theatre
5/23 Edmonton, AB Midway Music Hall
5/24 Calgary, AB Palace Theatre
5/26 Vancouver, BC Commodore
5/28 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
5/29 Spokane, WA Spokane Live Casino
5/31 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom
6/1 Salt Lake City, UT Union
6/3 San Francisco, CA Warfield
6/4 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
6/5 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
Source: metalinjection.net
