It was recorded in the wake of their three-year hiatus from November 2008 to August 2011 and Al Jourgensen's near-death experience in 2010. Relapse is also the last Ministry album released during guitarist Mike Scaccia's lifetime, although he appeared posthumously on the band's next album, From Beer to Eternity.

Relapse is Ministry's first studio album featuring original material since 2007's The Last Sucker, marking the longest gap, to date, between their studio albums. The band previously broke up in 2008 and Jourgensen had since stated that a reunion would never happen. In the November 2008 issue of Hustler Magazine, Jourgensen said that the reason they were breaking up was that they "take up so much time" as well as the hassle of getting out new albums.

Just another Relapse. So in 2012 Relapse was released and it's actually the worst Ministry album that has ever seen the light of day. It's just 10 lukewarm tracks of thrashing in the mould of the "Bush trilogy" but simply many times worse and totally uninspired. What a waste of time! Reply Notify me 4 Helpful. referencing Relapse, CD, Album, SR0750.

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