Bringing together a genre no one listens to anymore with a sport no one watches anymore, Al Jourgensen, frontman for unkillable industrial-rockers Ministry, has written the new “fight song” for NHL team the Chicago Blackhawks. (The Blackhawks’ management clearly never recovered from that Lollapalooza when Jourgensen had that bitchin’ mic stand with all the bones and skulls on it.) Entitled “Keys To The City,” it more or less sounds like “Rock And Roll Part 2″ shoved angrily through the Wax Trax wringer. Should Jourgensen ever choose to do the right thing and cease putting out new Ministry records, looks like he’d still be able to turn a decent buck writing entrance tunes for the UFC, interstitial music for episodes of Raw, and pep rally routines for Cook County high schools. [Chicago Blackhawks Music via MTV/HT: Reed Fischer]
Ministry Visits The Land Of Rape And Hockey
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Also, I bet the Wax Trax wringer is made of black rubber.
Ministry used to be really good almost 20 years ago. Heroin is one hell of a drug.
I think “Flashback” could have been a way better fight song
Ask and ye shall receive… “Jourgensen Reveals Last Ministry LP” and Tour [www.pitchforkmedia.com]
As an old Ministry fan, I am looking forward to the tour this Spring to re-live my misspent youth.
Was I asleep when the second Pailhead album got made, as was promised?
I thought the last three Ministry albums were surprisingly good. Psalm 69 good at times, even.
@PengIn:
Agreed. Rio Grande Blood is quite rockin’!
Everything that Ministry released between “Land of Rape and Honey” and “Psalm 69″ are top shelf. Just avoid their Thompson Twins schlock like “Everyday is Halloween.”
A friend of mine and I saw Ministry (with KMFDM opening) in 1990, which was so loud that we decided our ears couldn’t take the concert a couple days later with Voivod, Soundgarden, and Faith No More. It took three days for my ears to get back to normal after Ministry. Going to another concert before I could hear properly again seemed like a bad idea. But I’ll bet it was a good show.
I’m probably about the only hockey fan on here, so, ouch.
I guess it’s fitting that the Blackhawks are a perennial shit team. But in his defense, they were rad for a couple years. When I saw them they had like 5 guitar players, along with the skull mic stand and dancers.