Relapse

The twelfth album, released on 23 March 2012 on AFM Records; the LP catalogue number is AFM 399-1. Ten songs, from Ghouldiggers to Bloodlust. The band’s own biography counts the administration of last rites to Ministry no fewer than three times, and a record called Relapse sits squarely in the middle of that. Mike Scaccia played guitar on it; he died on 22 December 2012, at forty-seven, after collapsing onstage at a show in Fort Worth, Texas. Some of the songs take their titles straight from the movements of the moment, 99 Percenters among them. The running order here is the original release's as printed.