Earlier this month, MINISTRY leader Al Jourgensen confirmed to Metal Edge that he has already commenced work on the follow-up to “Moral Hygiene”, which was released last October via Nuclear Blast Records. “We have eight songs recorded right now, and even my engineer went, ‘This is total arena rock, dude,'” he said. “And I really feel like after that one, we have one more in us, which would be our 19th album. I don’t think I’m gonna hit 20, but I’m pretty certain we’re gonna have 19 by the time we’re done. So we’ll see. I mean, who knows, man? The world is just in such a state of fucking flux. You don’t know what’s gonna happen next fucking week. But this new record, it’s fun stuff.”

Asked if he was into any arena rock or hair metal stuff back in the 1980s, Al said: “No, not at all. I didn’t know any of… to this day, outside of ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ or something, I couldn’t even name you a MÖTLEY CRÜE song. That’s not something that I would listen to. I’m sure it’s really great and all that, but when I say arena rock, I don’t mean that this album’s going to be a hair-band fucking album. I mean, it’s MINISTRY, right? I’m just saying that the chord progressions and the sound of it is just much more… we don’t go off on eclectic tangents as much. These are hard-hitting beats that are in your face, and that you could visualize 20,000 people knowing the lyrics to the songs and chanting along. So the music lends itself more towards a larger stadium atmosphere.”