Ministry

X Japan leader Yoshiki is launching another auction to benefit victims of the earthquake that devastated coastal areas of Japan in March. All proceeds from this auction will benefit Japan Relief. New items are being added weekly, so Noisecreep recommends that you check back as often as you can...

Ministry founder Al Jourgenson is trying to stop the distribution of a new documentary on the band, alleging that the film' producers failed to get the singer's approval on its final cut. 'Fix: The Ministry Movie' promises to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at Jourgenson and company...

Front Line Assembly are gearing up for a US tour, the band's first since 2007. The tour is in support of their latest full-length release, 'Improvised. Electronic. Device.' Die Krupps and Cyanotic are set to open each show. The new album's first single, 'Shifting Through the Lens,' is the most danceable track FLA has created in the last decade ...

We're not even going to get into the claim last year that Ministry were breaking up and there would be no more new music. We'll just celebrate the fact frontman Al Jourgensen has decided to drop a new Ministry song, an aggro cover of AC/DC's 'Thunderstuck...

Because of the increasing availability of powerful technology, metal bands on a tight budget can experiment with electronics more than ever. While bands might dabble in the various forms of electronic music, there haven't many that have done it as completely as Los Angeles-based Hands Like Glass...

Members of Ministry/Revolting Cocks/Killing Joke, Sonic Youth and Nachtmystium have formed the High Confessions, a brand new band signed to Relapse. Industrial plus indie rock royalty plus black metal? What say you? Singer Chris Connelly (Ministry/Revolting Cocks/Killing Joke), drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), ex-Nachtmystium keyboardist Sanford Parker and recording engineer Jeremy Lemos, who

Earlier this year, Chicago-hailing extreme metallers Nachtmystium entered a recording studio to begin tracking the follow-up to 2008's 'Assassins: Black Meddle Part I' under the vigilant eyes of Minsk producer Sanford Parker. On June 8, Century Media will release that effort, called 'Addicts: Black Meddle Part II...

Delilah's, tucked in the Lakeview neighborhood in northern Chicago, is a 16-year-old watering hole, established by owner Mike Miller to deliver the "anti-boring." On the first Tuesday of each month, Delilah's offers The Metal Shop, the city's longest-running DJ event, hosted and produced by music industry vet Ron Platzer, pictured above right, flanked by Guest DJ and Terror vocalist Sco

Just last week, Noisecreep announced that the Murderdolls would be returning this summer, armed with an album called 'Women and Children Last.' Lead by Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison (playing lead guitars) and vocalist Wednesday 13, the band had been in hiatus since 2004...

German industrial titans KMFDM have released 'Krieg,' the remix companion to 2009's 'Blitz.' Get it? 'Blitz,' 'Krieg' -- blitzkrieg. The remix record features 12 tracks redone by former and current members of hard rock icons like Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Danzig, Ministry, Prong and ex-members of even KMFDM, to name a few...