He recently said: "We'll see if we ever do another Ministry gig again or not; I'm not saying yes or no yet. All I'm saying is I know there's no new Ministry studio CDs coming ever again. I promise."

He made the decision after the death of guitarist Mike Scaccia, whose last work appears on the record. "He was like my little brother, my best friend," Jourgensen reflects. "As long as he was there I knew things were going to be okay.