Industrial rock band Ministry put close to over four decades of rocking with an explosive finale today, releasing their swansong album Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery). Alongside the full release of 10 tracks lamenting the state of the world, the band shared a video for the single “Crickets.” The video can be found on their YouTube channel.
The track opens with the expected sound of the titular bugs and a voice declaring “we follow crickets.” Of course, the song is not as quiet as such a reference might lead you to believe, instead being an explosively metal track that builds off the chirping of the bugs. The video features the band performing in a garage, some wearing Nazi attire and swastikas, tying into the song’s theming around the rise of dictators and fascists, warning against fascism repeating itself in 2026. The “crickets” referring to the silence and inaction of the people that allows such people to rise up. As a speech mid-song states, “there’s no one to blame but yourself when dictatorship takes hold.”
“Crickets” is one of the many tracks on the album that speak to the fears faced today and in the future – Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery) is billed as featuring “tracks about societal collapse, frauds in charge and the impending robot takeover.” Frontman Al Jourgensen said about the album and the band’s departure, “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,” he adds. “It’s been quite a ride, but I’m completely at peace with the fact that it’s done.”
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