Ministry Adios 2009 RTB

ARTIST: Ministry
TITLE: Adios...
LABEL: 13th Planet/Megaforce
GENRE: Industrial
BITRATE: 214kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 07m total
RELEASE DATE: 2009-03-31
RIP DATE: 2009-03-31

Track List
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1. Let's Go 5:09
2. Watch Yourself 5:14
3. Life Is Good 4:20
4. The Dick Song 5:43
5. The Last Sucker 6:30
6. No W 3:01
7. Waiting 5:12
8. Worthless 4:18
9. Wrong 5:14
10. Rio Grande Blood 4:34
11. Senor Peligro 3:50
12. Lieslieslies 5:21
13. Khyber Pass 8:46

Release Notes:

Ministry will release a live CD and DVD, both entitled "Adios" recorded during
their Final World Tour 2008! The CD/DVD features live-recordings and
performances from Serbia, Warsaw, Los Angeles, Chicago, Germany, Czech Republic
and Slovenia. The CD will be released in late March, while the DVD won't be out
until May as it will contain a LOT of bonus-material, on which MINISTRY are
still putting the final touches.

Progenies of thumping, seminal industrial metal whose legacy can still be heard
ringing loudly in everything from Rammstein to Red Harvest. It's hard to believe
that this is their swansong, their last album release, and indeed Ministry go
out in style tonight with this album! When Ministry pulls out the big guns it is
tantamount to a revelation. The world needs bands like Ministry to be a razor
sharp thorn in the side of conservatism, and one of the few bands who truly
exuded the kind of punk ethic that's bandied about by so many but actually lived
by so few! Good bye Ministry!

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Ministry's long goodbye continued with Adios...Putas Madres, a live album that
followed a remix collection, a covers comp, and even a charity single for the
Chicago Blackhawks, all of which were released after leader Al Jourgensen
announced he was dismantling the band for good. But if you ever think Ministry
could be among those who milk their retirement announcement for all it's worth,
this is far from being a cheap cash-in. If you go by their fickle Internet
forums, it may not even be a gift to the fans, at least not the ones who only
covet the middle sliver of the band's long discog. The material here is pulled
from Ministry's last three albums, a hitless George W. Bush-hating concept
trilogy that alienated some longtime fan club members -- known as the Piss Army
-- while still yielding a high amount of prime material. Adios contains arguably
the best songs from the three, pumped up to maximum volume with both the guitar
crunch and percussion blasts raging harder than before. It's exactly the formula
used on their last live album, Sphinctour, and those familiar know it works, as
long as you love both the source material and relentless pummeling that would
make most tap out early. Even if there's no consoling the fans who wanted a
career-spanning kiss-off or one more go with the mid-period hits, Adios is a
worthy fringe release, worth the attention of anyone who thought final studio
album The Last Sucker absolutely destroyed.