Relapse Tour

Relapse Tour

Concert by Ministry
Location	North America, Europe
Start date	June 17, 2012
End date	August 4, 2012
No. of shows	16
Ministry concert chronology

The Relapse Tour is a 2012 concert tour by the American industrial metal band Ministry in support of their upcoming twelfth studio album, Relapse. It will be their first tour together in 4 years as well as their first in 6 years with guitarist Mike Scaccia (as well as their final, due to his death in December 2012).

Background

After Ministry broke up in 2008, frontman Al Jourgensen stated in interviews that a reunion would never happen. In the November 2008 issue of Hustler Magazine, Jourgensen said that the reason they were breaking up was that they "take up so much time" as well as the hassle of getting out new albums. He also said he was responsible for six other bands and can get seven albums done a year while not working on new Ministry material.

On August 7, 2011, it was confirmed that Ministry had reformed and were going to play at Germany's Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2–4, 2012.^[1] Later that month, Jourgensen told Metal Hammer that Ministry had begun work on Relapse, which they hope to release by Christmas. Regarding the sound of the new material, he explained, "We've only got five songs to go. I've been listening to it the last couple of weeks and I wasn't really in the mood, I was just taking it as a joke. Just to pass the time at first but [Mikey's] raving about it. It's like, dude c'mon, this is not about Bush, so... that part's over. The ulcers are gone and Bush is gone so it's time for something new. I think this is actually gonna wind up being the fastest and heaviest record I've ever done. Just because we did it as anti-therapy therapy against the country music we would just take days off and thrash faster than I've done in a long time, faster than Mikey's done in a long time. He just did a Rigor Mortis tour and said it was easy compared to this Ministry stuff so it's gonna be brutal and it's gonna freak a lot of people out."^[2]

In addition to the Wacken Open Air appearance, the band will play five North American dates and will not be adding any more cities to the Relapse 2012 tour, as the band is scheduled to perform in Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Finland June 29–July 1, 2012.^[3][4] Ministry decides to confirm an Australian tour in July.

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
North America
June 17, 2012	Denver	United States	Ogden Theatre
June 21, 2012	Los Angeles		Club Nokia
June 23, 2012	New York City		Best Buy Theater
June 28, 2012	Chicago		The Vic Theatre
June 29, 2012
Europe
July 1, 2012	Helsinki	Finland	Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
July 4, 2012	Oslo	Norway	Rockefeller Music Hall
July 5, 2012	Gävle	Sweden	Getaway Rock Festival
July 7, 2012	Nibe	Denmark	Nibe Festival
July 10, 2012	Leipzig	Germany	Werk 2 / Halle A
July 16, 2012	Bristol	England	O2 Academy
Europe
August 2, 2012	Wacken	Germany	Wacken Open Air
August 3, 2012
August 4, 2012

References

1. "Ministry Is Back! 2012 Wacken Open Air Festival Appearance Confirmed". Blabbermouth.net. 7 August 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
2. "Al Jourgensen: Why I Decided To Bring Back Ministry". Blabbermouth.net. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
3. "Ministry Announces U.S. Tour Dates". Blabbermouth.net. 2 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
4. "Ministry, Overkill, Saint Vitus, Swallow The Sun Confirmed For Finland's Tuska". Blabbermouth.net. 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.