{"id":7813,"date":"2022-03-25T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/315music.com\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2022-03-25T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:30:56","slug":"live-ministrys-industrial-strength-2022-takes-over-buffalos-riverworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/live-ministrys-industrial-strength-2022-takes-over-buffalos-riverworks\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Ministry\u2019s Industrial Strength 2022 Takes Over Buffalo\u2019s Riverworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Industrial metal titan, Al Jourgensen of Ministry brought the Industrial Strength Tour 2022 to downtown Buffalo\u2019s River Works. Ministry, is on tour for their brand-new album, Moral Hygiene <\/em>and is also celebrating the 30th Anniversary of their album, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, which had such hit singles as \u201cBreathe\u201d and \u201cThieves.\u201d Joining them for their celebration was Corrosion of Conformity and The Melvins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting off the evening was Corrosion of Conformity. I\u2019m no stranger to seeing Corrosion of Conformity live, so like most fans this evening, I was excited to see what they would play. Right out of the gate, Pepper Keenan and his bandmates ripped right into a track I have not heard live in a long time, \u201cParanoid Opioid\u201d off their 2005 album In the Arms of God<\/em>. Between songs, Pepper and bandmates expressed their collective heartfelt thanks for everyone coming out to live shows again. You could tell the band is truly grateful for all the fans\u2019 support and dedication over the years and that they don\u2019t take it for granted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

COC packed in some heavy tracks in a short time, including some of my personal favorites, \u201cVote with A Bullet,\u201d \u201cAlbatross,\u201d and closing with \u201cClean My Wounds.\u201d My only disappointment was that I wanted to hear them play more, but as the opener, that was not in the cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up was arguably one of the best sludge rock bands out there, the Melvins. Over the years I have seen the Melvins quite a few times and they do not disappoint. From the moment Buzz Osbourne (guitar, vocals), Dale Crover (drums, backing vocals), and Steve McDonald (bass) hit the stage, they barrage your senses both visually and sonically. Normally, Buzz engages the audience but with a shorter time slot he wasted no time and relentlessly cranked out heavy-hitting songs like \u201cIt\u2019s Shoved,\u201d and \u201cCivilized Worm.\u201d The band also performed a new song named \u201cNever Say You\u2019re Sorry\u201d which the fans were excited about. After a powerful twelve-song set, the band wrapped up with \u201cHooch,\u201d \u201cHoney Bucket,\u201d and \u201cThe Bit.\u201d I was left wanting more but again will have to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a brief set change, a chain-link cage was being built onstage and you could sense the anticipation building in the venue as the crowd waited for Ministry to take the stage. The stage went dark, and some images started displaying in the background while an eerie intro was pumped through the PA system. It wasn\u2019t long before Jourgensen and company hit the stage wasting no time, kicking things off with \u201cBreathe.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band performed from behind a chain-link cage which encompassed the entire stage. You could clearly see that the band was happy to be back on stage celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1989 album The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste<\/em> with their fans who had waited over two years due to pandemic-related tour delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only did the band play an incredible selection from The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste<\/em> album, but they treated the crowd to two tracks \u201cDon\u2019t Stand in Line\u201d and \u201cMan Should Surrender\u201d from the short-lived Pailhead project Jourgensen did with Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes without saying that I was extremely excited to hear these tracks live. After an incredible high-energy set, the cage came down and the band’s encore featured a couple of songs from their current album Morale Hygiene<\/em> and an amazing cover of Iggy and the Stooges\u2019 \u201cSearch and Destroy.\u201d It was an awesome ending to an incredible night of music, not to mention well worth the two-year wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall, a really good night of music. You still have time to see this show which is on tour through April 18 at the Showbox in Seattle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Industrial metal titan, Al Jourgensen of Ministry brought the Industrial Strength Tour 2022 to downtown Buffalo\u2019s River Works. Ministry, is on tour for their brand-new album, Moral Hygiene and is also celebrating the 30th Anniversary of their album, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, which had such hit singles as \u201cBreathe\u201d and \u201cThieves.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":7792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,10,15,24],"tags":[5256,5257,5261,5260,5259,5255,5258],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buffalo","category-metal-hard-rock-punk","category-photo-gallery","category-show-reviews","tag-al-jourgensen","tag-corrosion-of-conformity","tag-dale-crover","tag-king-buzzo","tag-melvins","tag-ministry","tag-pepper-keenan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}