Ministry - 'Adios...Puta Madres'

Farewell tour of Al Jourgensen’s celebrated industrial angst device is given due treatment with audio and video depictions of Ministry’s booming exodus from the scene.

If you’re keeping tabs, you might insinuate Ministry’s departure is as prolonged an event as Kiss’, the latter perpetually being on their “farewell tour.” Now there’s a new Ministry live chronicle to behold, and if you were there for Al Jourgensen’s trans-venue bon voyage, Adios…Putas Madres ought to courier all that you saw.

Though many fans were miffed Jourgensen only served up a sliver of the early and midpoint notables, Ministry’s farewell set consists largely of their last three studio works Houses of the Mole, Rio Grande Blood and The Last Sucker, still making it a bombastic endeavor.

With Prong’s Tommy Victor handling lead guitars, Society 1 escapee Sin Quirin lending supplements and Static-X’s Tony Campos rounding out Uncle Al’s surgical string unit for this tour, there’s your motivation to get around this crushing live album. On the audio CD, expect to hear only Jourgensen’s latter-day litany of anti-Republicanism, in running order to the bullying songs’ respective albums, no less. “Lies Lies Lies” is so massive it can barely be contained by the recording equipment, ditto for “Let’s Go,” “Waiting” and the fast-as-Talladega “No W,” “Rio Grande Blood” and “Senor Peligro.”

Jourgensen and Ministry are no strangers to live albums with In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up, Live Psalm 69 Tour and Sphinctour. The difference maker for Adios…Putas Madres, outside of it being Ministry’s alleged final romp is Jourgensen’s sheer incense against the former Bush administration, making it even more ferocious than the original source. Though he’s relishing a glee trip as seen on the DVD concert and backstage footage, undoubtedly Al meant to stick theoretical shards up the ex-president’s bum via his venomous parting tirade. All making for a raucous concluding reception through the wind tunnel of Jourgensen’s abrasive pipes.