Legendary, Industrial music pioneer and all-around Rock Star Al Jourgensen has joined forces with British dark-artist Sam Shearon to create a series of comic books entitled MINISTRY: The Devil’s Chord – The Chronicles of Alien F. Jourgensen, a 13-issue comic book series targeted to premiere at next July’s Comic-Con in San Diego. Each issue in the series will be based on a Ministry album, including the Platinum-certified Psalm 69, the Gold-sellers The Land of Rape and Honey and The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, as well as Filth Pig, Rio Grande Blood, The Last Sucker and Relapse – all Top 20 albums on Billboard’s charts – among others. Continue reading Ministry’s Al Jourgensen Co-Creates Comic Book Series, Becomes Super Hero →
“Just One Fix…”
I don’t imagine that many individuals would disagree with a statement made by Ministry front man Al Jourgensen close to the beginning of Fix – a profoundly gritty and utterly compelling documentary of which he is the primary focus – that the best job to have is one where you’re paid to be yourself.
Possibly the single most influential musician of the Industrial music genre and an undeniably notorious and outspoken character, Jourgensen has never “posed” nor compromised for the sake of his art. In fact, he’s pretty much always earned a pay check for the talents involved in just being Al Jourgensen. Fifteen years ago, while Ministry was touring the world in support of the Filth Pig album, Al was a relentless junkie who was equal parts devil and messiah to everyone who entered his orbit. Someone on that tour bus was a filmmaker with a camera. Fix: The Ministry Movie is the resultant documentation of the full immersion into Al’s world of someone who was, essentially, just along for the ride. Most of the journey isn’t very pretty.
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