Ministry is not letting COVID-19 affect their efforts to record new material. According to the PRP, the band has announced that they are working on their fifteenth studio album in the midst of everything. After recently losing their drummer Bill Rieflin, the band is still headstrong to make another great album. Rieflin passed earlier this week after losing his battle to cancer. The band is also still scheduled to hit the road later this summer in celebration of the 30th anniversary of their 1989 album The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste. Fellow bands KMFDM and Front Line Assembly will join them on the trek. See the full list of scheduled dates below.

Band member Tony Campos is one of many who was recently announced to take part in the soundtrack for the upcoming video game sequel of DOOM called Doom:Eternal, which was released last week. Other collaborators included James Dorton of Black Crown Initiative, Natalie Kahan of Wildspeaker, Wesley Merritt of The World I Knew and Chelsea Rocha-Murphy of Kinnefret. Ministry’s guitarist Sin Quirin was recently accused of having sexual relationships with minors while Quirin was with his former band Society 1. According to a report, the two alleged victims were named Kelly Longoria and Brooke. Longoria stated that she and Quirin had a sexual relationship between December 2002 and April 2003, when she was 15 years old at the time. Brooke was 16 and had invited Quirin into her parents’ house while they were out of town after one of Society 1’s shows in Tacoma, Wash.

Ministry 2020 Tour Dates
07/01 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox Sodo
07/02 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
07/03 – Missoula, MT – Wilma Theatre
07/05 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
07/07 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
07/09 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
07/10 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
07/11 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
07/12 – Niagara Falls, NY – Rapids Theatre
07/13 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theatre
07/15 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
07/16 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
07/17 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont
07/18 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
07/19 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
07/21 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
07/22 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
07/24 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
07/25 – Dallas, TX – Gas Monkey Live!
07/26 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
07/28 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
07/29 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
07/30 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
07/31 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
08/01 – San Francisco, CA – The Regency Ballroom

Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat