Ministry Announce 15th Studio Album ‘Moral Hygiene’

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Ministry have announced their much-anticipated 15th studio album, titled ‘Moral Hygiene’. The new album – which follows 2018’s ‘AmeriKKKant’ – is set for release on October 1st via Nuclear Blast Records.

“The good thing about literally taking a year off from any social activity or touring is that you really get to sit back and get an overview of things as they are happening, as opposed to being caught up in the moment” Al Jourgensen says. “And what I saw with how we handled several public crises – from the pandemic to racial injustice to who we vote in to lead our country – is that times are changing, and society needed to change to get away from the idea that has permeated us of take care of yourself, fuck everything else. Now more than ever we need moral hygiene,”

“It consumed me as I wrote this album. It’s not some pious term. It’s what we have to return to in order to function as the human species on this planet. And I’m proud to have had such great guests on this album to help cement that message like Billy Morrison, Jello Biafra and Arabian Prince.”

The new album announcement comes alongside the release of the band’s latest track ‘Good Trouble’. The song was inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the activist work of the late US Congressman John Lewis. The song also comes accompanied by a new video that includes sampling from last year’s demonstrations in Los Angeles as captured by Jourgensen and his partner Liz Walton.

“I was watching the coverage last July around Lewis’ death and was in awe the next day when this entire letter from him was published in the New York Times.” Jourgensen adds about the new single, “How suss was that to want to keep making progress after his death by thinking about the legacy he left. I was struck by the reflectiveness of his speech, knowing he was dying and making sure it was released because he saw trouble ahead. That is the moral hygiene of this album – we have to do something to change and I really hope we continue to act and live up to the idea of getting into good trouble for the benefit of society.”

Check out ‘Good Trouble’ here:

The new album will also include the band’s previously released track ‘Alert Level’ that sounded the alarms about our collective dissonance towards the pandemic, climate change and the man formerly in the White House, bolstered by the song’s overarching question posed to listeners: “How concerned are you?”.

Moral Hygiene was recorded with engineer Michael Rozon (also behind the boards on AmeriKKKant) at Scheisse Dog Studio, Jourgensen’s self-built home studio and creative lab. The upcoming release also includes a collaboration with Jello Biafra (Jourgensen’s cohort in side project LARD) on ‘Sabotage Is Sex’, and a unique take on The Stooges’ ‘Search And Destroy’ that features guitar virtuoso Billy Morrison (Billy Idol/Royal Machines). Morrison is also heavily featured on a number of songs on the album.

‘Moral Hygiene’ tracklist:

1. Alert Level
2. Good Trouble
3. Sabotage Is Sex
4. Disinformation
5. Search and Destroy
6. Believe Me
7. Broken System
8. We Shall Resist
9. Death Toll
10. TV Song #6 (Right Around The Corner Mix)

Moral Hygiene will be available in CD, vinyl and digital download formats. Pre-orders are available now.

Check out ‘Alert Level’ here: