Raise a skeptical eyebrow if you will, but Al Jourgensen will swear on any object you put him front of him that Ministry’ s new album Hate to Go (Take Out or Delivery) is its last, and that the group will be over after touring to support it next year.

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“It is so — final album, final tour. In 14 months from now I will be just a simple goat herder,” the dreadlocked Jourgensen, who founded Ministry during 1981, tells Billboard via Zoom from his current home in southern California. “I will be the Greta Garbo of industrial — ‘I vant to be left alone,’ OK? This is not like something where Motley Crue talks a blood oath they will not be back, and four months later they’re doing a world tour. I’m f***in’ done.”

And why, you ask?

“Look, man, I’ve been at this job for…it’ll be 45 years this year, and at 45 years of the same job generally you get a gold watch and a pension and you’re just happy to get the f*** away from your job,” says Jorgensen, 68.…