MINISTRY Featuring Jello BiafraDebut ‘Sabotage Is Sex!’ Music VideoPunk-Inspired Art Piece Teems With Angst OverGritty Reality Of 2022
Marking The First Time The DEAD KENNEDYS Icon Has Appeared In A Music Video While Re-TeamingBiafra And Al Jourgensen, Cohorts In The Hardcore Punk-Industrial Project LARD
‘Sabotage Is Sex’ Hails From MINISTRY’s Acclaimed 15th Studio Album MORAL HYGIENEOut Now
One of the most incendiary and popular tracks on MINISTRY’s latest album Moral Hygiene is undoubted ‘Sabotage Is Sex’, the blistering collaboration between the one-and-only Al Jourgensen and his oft-collaborator Jello Biafra, of course, the great mind behind the DEAD KENNEDYS. The two famously kickstarted their side-project LARD in the late ‘80s, a fusion of industrial and punk, and this latest collaboration may be a hint of things yet to come.
Says Jourgensen of the piece, “Jello and I have been friends and music collaborators for decades. I had no idea he’d never done a video before and I’m honoured to pop that creative cherry for him on ‘Sabotage Is Sex.’ It’s crazy how tech savvy we’ve all gotten yet somehow it all seems very punk rock to shoot a video at home with just an iPhone. Who knows, maybe one day there will be a LARD video?”
Adds Biafra, “My compliments to the chef!! Not like any other MINISTRY video either. It’s amazing what can be done dirt cheap in your bedroom, with some kool found footage and a few clever ideas. Two phones, two takes and my work is done. Fun! I knew there’d finally come a day where I could bust out those Fez hats kids stole from their parents and threw at DEAD KENNEYS on our ‘85 FrankenChrist tour.”