wordplay: Billy Schear

 Al Jourgensen may have traded in his trusty crack pipe, but his rabid addiction for attacking “Duh-bya” has assured fans Ministry still knows how to scorch the underside of life.  The most recent installment in Jourgensen’s Bush bashing trilogy, The Last Sucker, is slightly more stripped down then some of his better known work, and the lyrics seem a bit punchy compared to the guttural street poetry of yesteryear, but the raw senseless rage is still very much a part of the Ministry sound machine.  Tunes like “Let’s Go” and the title track bring fans back to the band’s glory days, when all of the fluff on the radio magically evaporated and it was all of the sudden sensible to hoist your fist in the air like you were part of a dissident sub-culture.  The haze may be lifted, but this supposed swan song from the group who gave us “Jesus Built My Hot Rod” and “Stigmata” is worth the ride. It’s a lot like withdrawal in fact.  It takes your guts some getting used to, but once your senses recover their strength…you realize just how powerful and sweet that final shot was.

April 12th @ The Ogden

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