MINISTRY: Godfathers of industrial metal say goodbye with homage album, tour - Monitor

Ministry’s latest tour, in support of their album “From Beer to Eternity,” pays homage to former guitarist and co-founder of the band Mike Saccia, 47, who died on stage from a heart attack in Forth Worth. Although the band’s front man, Al Jourgensen, is known for announcing their last two albums and tours as their last, this might actually be it. “The band goes down with him,” said Jourgensen after Saccia’s death in a Facebook post. Their latest album was produced by Jourgensen using tracks recorded by Saccia only days before he died. 2013, Jourgensen said there would be no supporting tour this time. In 2015, he said he felt healthy enough for another round and announced a line-up featuring former Pissing Razors guitarist Cesar Soto and began mapping their latest tour which stops tonight at 7 p. m. at the Boggus Ford Events Center in Pharr. The bands previous goodbye tour in 2012 was cut short when Jourgensen collapsed on stage during a live performance in Paris due to extreme dehydration and heat exhaustion, according to a post on the band’s Facebook page. Originally founded in 1981, by Cuban born singer-songwriter and producer, Jourgensen, also known as “Uncle Al,” the band was resurrected in El Paso in 2004 with the launch of Jourgensen’s record label 13th Planet located in the border city,... Source: www.themonitor.com