Ministry leader Al Jourgensen — hockey fan?

Given his lifestyle and dark, decadent image, Al Jourgensen has never exactly seemed like the sporting type. But he is in fact a major Blackhawks fan, and Ministry recently released the single “Keys to the City” to serve as the hockey team’s new anthem.

“That was a gift to the Wirtz family, who I have known for going on 20 years, and who helped me out when I was really down,” Jourgensen says. “There was a point where I had lost everything to addiction and had to go to rehab, and they helped me when no one else would. They believed in me.

“Me and Paul Raven, who recently passed away, wrote the song during the ‘Last Sucker’ sessions, and I was like, ‘It sounds like a hockey song! Let’s put it on the shelf!’ Then Angie, my wife, when it was her birthday, she wanted to go shopping in Chicago, so we went up there on a birthday trip. She also wanted to see some Hawks games — she’s a huge hockey fan, and I’m a huge hockey fan — I got the song done, saw the Wirtzes and handed it to them: ‘Here, this is a present!’ They played it for the players and the players went nuts, so they thought to adopt it as an official game song.

“Any money that is made from that all goes to Blackhawks charities. Right now, they have had 50,000 downloads of it already, and there [were] 20,000 in the first two days.”