Ministry’s Industrial Strength Tour pulled into Raleigh, North Carolina on March 18 to Ritz Raleigh for a show with Melvins and Corrosion of Conformity. Each show date celebrated 30 years of Ministry’s landmark album The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste as well as debut new songs from the forthcoming 15th studio album Moral Hygiene, out October 1 via Nuclear Blast Records. Ministry has been the lifetime passion project of founder Al Jourgensen, considered to be the pioneer of industrial music. It doesn’t take long to notice that at their live show as Jourgensen knows how to command the stage as well as his audience.

Setlist: Breathe, The Missing, Deity, Stigmata, Supernaut (Black Sabbath cover), Don’t Stand in Line (Pailhead cover), Man Should Surrender (Pailhead cover), Burning Inside, N.W.O., Just One Fix, Thieves, So What.  (ENCORE) Alert Level, Good Trouble, Search and Destroy (Iggy & The Stooges cover) 

Photos: I’m Music Magazine Owner/Editor Johnny Price