The Last Sucker

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AlbumSep 18 / 200712 songs, 1h 46s93%
Industrial Metal
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6.9 / 10

Ministry's 11th and "last" studio album, is also the final piece in Al Jourgensen's anti-Bush trilogy, which also includes 2004's Houses of the Molé and 2006's Rio Grande Blood.

With The Last Sucker Al Jourgensen not only brings his anti-Bush Jr trilogy of albums to a close, but he also shutters the Ministry band/project/death machine for good.

8 / 10

So Alien Jourgensen is gonna ride off into the sunset with this one, huh? Putting his battle-scarred industrial metal franchise to bed as the turbulent Bush II years wind down makes both poetic and practical sense — after all, MINISTRY seems to hit a slump when Democrats come to power, although give...

8 / 10

Ever since Ministry started in 1981 with an EP of pure techno music (Cold Life), there has always been an edge to de-facto leader of all things Ministry,...

3.0 / 5

Ministry - The Last Sucker review: Ministry don't go out at the top of their game. Instead they prove beyond a doubt that they're running out of ideas, and it's time to quit.