Ministry has announced that bassist as Paul D’Amour, a co-founder of Tool has joined the band. Ministry has new tour dates in Euorpe kicking off in a few weeks. D’Amour formed Tool in 1990 and, helped create the signature sound heard on 1992s Opiate and 1993’s classic Undertow. He also played on early demos of songs that wound up on 1996’s Aenima (Volcano). Revolver broke the news and spoke to the band.

Al Jourgensen commented about D’Amour joining the band — “he was recently here in the studio working on some new stuff!”

“I used to live with Timothy Leary, and he had given me these bottles of liquid LSD to bring on tour. I’d put two drops in my bottle of whiskey that I’d bring onstage. I’d drink about half the bottle during a show. So we were on Lollapalooza in ’92, I think it was San Francisco, and when we came offstage there were these two guys who were like, ‘Great show, dude!’ So I gave them my bottle of Bushmills, but I forgot that I had put LSD in it. So they drank it and they were tripping balls for, like, two or three days. They didn’t know what was going on and they were freaking out. They were ready to call suicidal hotlines. It turned out to be Paul and Maynard from Tool! … But he actually thanked me for that moment because he said it really got Tool going into being a psychedelic band. Pretty cosmic, right?”

Ministry 2019 U.K. and European tour dates:

Jun 16: Nickelsdorf Novarock, Austria

Jun 17: Lindau Club Vaudeville, Germany

Jun 18: Strasbourg Laiterie, France

Jun 20: Clisson Hellfest, France

Jun 22: Dessel Graspop, Belgium

Jun 23: Nijmegen Doornroosje, Netherlands

Jun 25: Oslo Vulkan Arena, Norway

Jun 26: Aarhus Voxhall, Denmark

Jun 27: Hannover Pavillon, Germany

Jun 30: Berlin Huxleys, Germany (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 02: Bristol SWX, UK (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 03: Glasgow SWG3, UK (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 04: Birmingham O2 Institute, UK (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 06: London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, UK (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 07: Paris La Machine du Moulin Rouge, France (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 09: Bochum Matrix, Germany (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 10: Prague Roxy, Czech Republic (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 11: Budapest A38, Hungary (w/ 3TEETH)

Jul 12: Timisoara Rock la Mures, Romania

Jul 13: Kosice Collosseum Club, Slovakia

Jul 15: Riga Melna Piektdiena, Latvia (w/ Dying Fetus)

Jul 16: Tallinn Rock Cafe, Estonia (w/ Dying Fetus)

Jul 17: Tampere Pakkahuone, Finland (w/ Dying Fetus)

Jul 19: Gävle Gefle Metal Festival, Sweden