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A Ministry concert is a revelatory, transformative (and sometimes dangerous) experience. So far this year, special onstage guests have included Jello Biafra and Martin Atkins from Pigface. For sheer decibel output, possibly only Tool and Sunn 0))) equal Ministry's output. And Jourgensen is an extraordinarily charismatic stage presence, darkly gorgeous, athletic, and wry.

Jourgensen says he will release his last Ministry album next year and then teach college (he's working on a Ph.D. in history) in his beloved Chicago.

Alain Jourgensen (left) is the Cuban immigrant nobody tells you about

Details

The MasterBaTour — featuring Ministry and the Revolting Cocks, with opening act Pitbull Daycare — arrives at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, July 9, at Revolution, 200 W Broward Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Tickets cost $27.50. Call 954-727-0950 for more information.

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• Al Jourgensen
• Ministry (Band)
• Chris Connelly
• Electronic Music
• Punk Rock

"Well I let their teeny minds think/That they're dealing with someone who is over the brink./And I dress this way just to keep them at bay/Because Halloween is every day! It's every day!"

Editor's note: Jourgensen is a friend of the writer's family; her brother-in-law, Jeff Carey, of Atlanta's longtime goth-industrial club Masquerade, is Jourgensen's frequent fishing buddy. The writer also sustained the first of many industrial music-related injuries — acquiring a broken wrist when swinging from a palm frond into the chicken-wire screen in front of the stage — at a Ministry show in 1991.