The new film “Jesus Cop” has some heavy metal actors in the cast

Al Jourgensen, the frontman of Ministry, has been cast in the next grindhouse comedic horror film “Jesus Cop,” which is being directed by Rob Gabriele, who has previously directed music videos for Green Jellæ and other films, as per theprp. In relation to that, Green Jellÿ star Bill Manspeaker has also been cast as “The Pope,” and his band is writing the movie’s music. Jourgensen will portray “Kane,” and Bam Margera, who is well-known for “Jackass” and other films, will voice “God.” The movie’s trailer can be found below.

Al Jourgensen, an instrumentalist, singer, and producer, created the American industrial metal group Ministry in Chicago, Illinois, in 1981. In the late 1980s, Ministry — a synth-pop group at first — became one of the forerunners of industrial rock and industrial metal. Jourgensen is the only original member of the band that has survived numerous lineup changes. Three of Ministry‘s studio albums — “The Land of Rape and Honey” (1988), “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” (1989), and “Psalm 69” (1992) — achieved financial success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The RIAA certified “Psalm 69” as platinum and the first two as gold.

“Filth Pig” (1996), a musical shift for the band, came after “Psalm 69” and gave Ministry their best chart position on the Billboard 200 at number nineteen. However, it received mixed reviews from reviewers and signaled the start of the band’s economic collapse. Warner Bros. dropped Ministry from the label due to the poor reception of their subsequent album, “Dark Side of the Spoon” (1999), and the group took a long break in the early 2000s when Jourgensen checked himself into rehab following years of substance abuse.

After Jourgensen recovered, Ministry made a comeback in 2003 with “Animositisomina”, which ended up being their final album with Paul Barker, who would depart the group that same year after being an official member for almost twenty years. The “Bush Trilogy” — “Houses of the Molé” (2004), “Rio Grande Blood” (2006), and “The Last Sucker “(2007) — released by Ministry, which went back to the thrash/industrial style of “Psalm 69” and critiqued then-President George W. Bush. These albums successfully restored the band’s commercial viability.