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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Al jourgensen - The Untold Story

"They were ripping the whole place down. The bar was used as a battering ram to storm the stage." How a long wait for a metal singer's dealer to deliver the goods almost caused disaster at an iconic UK music venue

There's a reason drugs are bad, kids, and this chaotic night in Nottingham was one of them

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“Trent Reznor started out as a roadie for us, next thing I know he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan interviewed Ministry legend Al Jourgensen and the results are as brilliant as you’d expect

From trading Ministry songs for drugs and production lessons to inspiring Nine Inch Nails and accidentally spiking Tool with LSD, no stone is left unturned

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"I chased him down the hall with my d**k in my hand." How an epic fistfight with racist skinheads turned hip-hop superstar Ice Cube and Ministry's Al Jourgensen into unlikely allies

Relations between the Ministry and Ice Cube camps on 1992's Lollapalooza tour were somewhat strained, until racists showed up spoiling for a fight

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"My ears are tired from music. It’s more like a job now as opposed to having youthful enthusiasm." Al Jourgensen explains why he's putting Ministry to bed after one final "amazing" album and world tour

"It’s not going to be like Kiss. I’m not going to be coming back every week."

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"We were just hanging out on the beach and sipping cool libations; Keith Richards was totally living the rock’n’roll lifestyle": Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and Ministry

Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback

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“There was chicken-wire around the stage. Al Jourgensen was climbing around like a caged beast. I knew this was a guy for me”: Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and Ministry

Meet the only man to have played with Hendrix, the Stones and Chad Kroeger from Nickelback

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“I planned to go out with Ministry. But then Madonna said, ‘I want Monte here – even if he’s just standing and holding a guitar’”: Monte Pittman on his crazy journey from Guitar Center to Ministry via Prong and Madonna – and his band with Adam Lambert

It might seem strange that a dude best known for playing guitar lines for pumping, thumping dance songs is now blowing eardrums with industrial metallers Ministry. But Pittman says he’s right where he belongs. This is his remarkable story

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“It was a case of meeting one of your idols and realising he is a total douchebag.” Ministry's Al Jourgensen on the night he worked as a “man-slave servant” for Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, and how it screwed up his love life

They say you should never meet your heroes, and after meeting Led Zeppelin's frontman, Al Jourgensen might agree

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“This presidency isn’t a surprise to me. You could see it coming a mile away. But the scope of the corruption is unparalleled”: How Ministry’s Al Jourgensen tried and failed to bow out with the George W Bush-baiting The Last Sucker

In 2007, Al Jourgensen was talking about retiring – and it was mostly down to the US President

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"It's the worst album in the history of mankind": This is the soundtrack of Al Jourgensen's life

Ministry linchpin Al Jourgensen picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happened when GG Allin threw up on him in an elevator in New York

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"I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music

Ministry might be looking to bow out after their next album, but they leave behind one of metal's most colourful and event-filled legacies. We asked frontman Al Jourgensen to look back on his life

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The untold story of Black Sabbath's unlikely resurrection: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Jon Bon Jovi, Triumph, Bryan Adams, Praying Mantis, FM, New England, Al Jourgensen, Masters Of Reality, Chris Spedding, Cock Sparrer, Bad Nerves and more

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Watch Ministry play songs from maligned albums With Sympathy and Twitch for first time since 1980s

Al Jourgensen’s industrial icons exhumed their earliest material this weekend, after their leader disowned it for years

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"We're all in this together": In a world getting crazier and crazier, Ministry's Al Jourgensen is the unlikely voice of sanity

Ministry return as a band rather than just Al Jourgensen, and there's both venom and truth in new album Hopiumforthemasses

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‘My first death was the weirdest …’ Ministry’s Al Jourgensen, metal’s great survivor

The industrial pioneer’s heart stopped three times during addiction and serious illness. Now, before a planned split, his new album takes on Trump – even if it means disowning his mother

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"No one will ever accuse Al Jourgensen of not being p***ed at the state of the world, no matter what state the world might be in": Ministry set the world to rights with Hopiumforthemasses

Al Jourgensen might be hinting at putting Ministry to bed after their next album, but Hopiumforthemasses shows the industrial metal legends are just as incendiary and furious as ever

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“Gritty, fast-paced and hectic”: Billy Morrison recruits Steve Vai, John 5 and Ozzy Osbourne for his first solo record in 9 years

The Billy Idol guitarist is set to team with a stellar cast – including his co-guitarist Steve Stevens – for a record that sees him reflecting on a riotous world, and you can hear the first single, Drowning, now

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11 legendary heavy metal bands with only one original member left

Superstars from Iron Maiden to Slipknot are still thriving, despite having just one founding member among their ranks

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“We have got to get that monkey out of the office before he kills us all.” How metal (mostly) united against George W. Bush in the 2000s

Years before Trump dragged US politics into the gutter, George W. Bush's Presidency caused outrage amongst many prominent metal bands

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The psychedelic tale of when Ministry's Al Jourgensen helped William Burroughs with an issue in his garden

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