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drumwise	Killing Joke	Lead	[-]
Posts: 8 (11/21/2005 21:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Join forum supporters Remove this ad How did I miss this the first time around? I really love this band now and have been consuming everything I can find by them. I vaguely remember The Fire Dances E.P. from the early eighties but I think the band never really caught on in the states. The highlights are: Killing Joke(1980) Pandemonium(1994) Democracy(1997) Killing Joke(2003) Tribal rhythms with heavy guitars and apocalyptic themes. A heavy metal band with brains if there is such a thing. drumwise
thelaughingtree	Killing Joke	#1	[-]
Snowfaller Posts: 532 (11/22/2005 00:36) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes... They have always been a cool band & able re-emerge time & time again & catch new listeners each time they resurface. "Laugh? I nearly Bought One" is a good one to buy if you haven't done so already.
fandorin	some personal records set by Killing Joke	#2	[-]
Posts: 5893 (11/22/2005 11:02) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	(1) 2 songs in my private list "eighties songs that sound like eighties and are not crap": - Adorations - Love Like Blood (2) record of the year 2003 (Killing Joke, dto.) (3) Best performance of an English rock star in a surreal Czech movie (Jaz Coleman in Rok D'bla) (4) Best song named after a form of government (Democracy) (5) greatest nose in rock biz (Jaz Coleman) (6) best post punk celebrity ever directing the Prague Philharmonia Orchestra (Jaz Coleman) i love these guys!! Senseless working overtime
drumwise	Re: some personal records set by Killing Joke	#3	[-]
Posts: 8 (11/22/2005 21:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	More reasons to love this band! Like the Church they seem to evolve and keep their fans, while attracting new ones. I'd like to see more of that list Fandorin. Drumwise
fandorin	Re: some personal records set by Killing Joke	#4	[-]
Posts: 5893 (12/20/2005 01:38) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	argh, the german shows have been cancelled. but they promised a new album early next year, it's called HOSANNAS FROM THE BASEMENTS OF HELL, and I hope it sounds like that!! Senseless working overtime
fandorin	Hosanna, hosanna!	#5	[-]
Posts: 5893 (01/20/2006 04:10) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have heard "Hosannas from the basement of hell" and what a fantastic album it is. It's dark, it's evil and merges the insanity of KJ2003 with some of the spacious sounds of their eighties work. It has that weird solemn "celebrational" character only KJ are able to create. They bring in an orchestra, monstrously long and violent songs, and nevertheless it's much much more than your usual dark metal band. The title track combines a thunderstorm with soaring melodies like Adorations. In the end, the songs get a bit overlong, but the flow is great. Senseless working overtime
fandorin	Screaming Hosanna in the furnace of hell	#6	[-]
Posts: 5893 (03/25/2006 09:38) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	there it is sitting on my CD shelf. this album is so relentlessly aggressive i guard it like a cage of scorpions someone placed in my flat. these are no guitars anymore. this is the sound of liquid lava routed through a PA... this is no voice anymore...these are the bloody lacerated shreds of what once were vocal chords. hehe....i should do these PR kits... and it's good fun to listen to. the same fun as watching a very good horror movie. monumental low key high end industrial tribal metal attacks. but what tribe.... i'm sure i don't want to meet the folks behind this kind of folklore... "please play at welding volume!" Senseless working overtime Fandorin Music Fandorin Files
thelaughingtree	Screaming	#7	[-]
Snowfaller Posts: 532 (03/25/2006 22:11) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Sounds like a friggin kick ass album.
fandorin	...as well as a kickin frigg ass album	#8	[-]
Posts: 5893 (04/12/2006 13:09) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	it's really scary, but funny. i like the promo video: watch the video for the single here Senseless working overtime Fandorin Music Fandorin Files
Altres	Re: ...as well as a kickin frigg ass album	#9	[-]
Faith Healer Space Saviour Posts: 1857 (10/22/2007 09:01) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Killing Joke bassist Raven dies Paul Raven, bassist with post-punk band Killing Joke, has died of a suspected heart attack aged 46. The Wolverhampton musician's body was found on Saturday in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was recording. Killing Joke had hits including Love Like Blood and Pandemonium, and were covered by Metallica and Foo Fighters. Bandmates Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker described Raven as "possibly the funniest man on planet Earth and a brother to us all". Raven's music career included stints in Neon Hearts and glam rock band Kitsch before he replaced original Killing Joke bassist Youth in 1982. He left the band in 1987 before forming Murder Inc and joining Ministry, Prong and Mob Research. Prong bandmate Ted Parsons found Raven in a chair and called an ambulance crew, which was unable to revive him. "I'm devastated," Parsons said. "He will be missed by many."
Boriah	Re: ...as well as a kickin frigg ass album	#10	[-]
Space Saviour Posts: 1390 (10/22/2007 09:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Join forum supporters Remove this ad terrible news! God bless him. rest in peace Paul. "Theres only two ways of making a song: your way or the wrong way" (Trevor Rabin) www.myspace.com/thebylawsofthecrib www.myspace.com/triptych31
greyhour	Sad News	#11	[-]
Glow Worm Posts: 284 (10/22/2007 11:19) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It is always heartbreaking when you see these headlines. Paul Raven had a great bass sound. He almost carries Fire Dances, Night Time and Extremities. He definitely does at times. The 2003 album and Hosannas were okay I thought, but they had become too over the top, balls out metal for my tastes. By the way the picture above is of Youth, their other basist, not Raven.
fandorin	Re: Sad News	#12	[-]
Posts: 5893 (10/22/2007 11:51) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	2003---a monster, but a beloved one. I love Killing Joke! As King Boriah I once said, "Basically, if you met a guy who doesn't like Killing Joke, you know you are in front of an idiot" ...because strange is what we need Fandorinfotos
Boriah	Re: Sad News	#13	[-]
Space Saviour Posts: 1390 (10/23/2007 00:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* "Basically, if you met a guy who doesn't like Killing Joke, you know you are in front of an idiot" Agreed "Theres only two ways of making a song: your way or the wrong way" (Trevor Rabin) www.myspace.com/thebylawsofthecrib www.myspace.com/triptych31
greyhour	the joke ain't over	#14	[-]
Glow Worm Posts: 284 (10/23/2007 09:15) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	i will have to give hosannas and 2003 another listen. it has been a while since i have heard them. i thought that pandemonium and democracy were great. i am actually listening to brighter than a thousand suns right now, and although it is their most dated album (or outside the gate, if it counts), but it has some great songs.
fandorin	Re: the joke ain't over	#15	[-]
Posts: 5893 (10/23/2007 10:35) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ah, Grey, Pandemonium and Democracy are fantastic. Though I'm not a real metalhead, I think 2003 is even better. It's metal without everything I loathe in metal. Just listen to the opener, The Death And Resurrection Show, and admire the drums and the drive, plus the summoning vocals... and there is Asteroid, an evil speed industrial miniature... and a grandiose pop song, "Seeing Red". And a "ballad", hehe, You Never Get To Me. A lovely album. Kudos to Dave Grohl's killer drums, btw! Hosannas is a different beast. Some of it is really tiring, too long, too low-fi. It really sounds like it was recorded in Chernobyl. But the title track, Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell - you have to love it!! It has something icy, 80es like in it, but the pulse is 2010. When the infernal verse arrives in chorus land, I'm in awe. And if I should ever copy a rock star's style, Jaz Coleman would be the choice RIP Raven, long live Jaz Coleman!! And long live Geordie, the man with the semihollow body guitar. ...because strange is what we need Fandorinfotos
greyhour	Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (Texas)	#16	[-]
Glow Worm Posts: 284 (10/25/2007 08:48) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I am listening to this now and the first two songs are majestic. What powerful songs! After that it starts to get a little bit boring. I think that it is because there is little variation in the songwriting style. Up next will be the 2003 album.
melancholy girl		#17	[-]
Perfect Child Posts: 311 (11/21/2007 17:06) Glow Worm Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Love Killing Joke! I've downloaded a tv show a few days ago In a world with so many answers left why do I need so many explanations? To get closer to the truth and further from the sky www.myspace.com/suspirorum
fandorin		#18	[-]
Posts: 5893 (11/23/2009 14:13) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	YEAHH!! 30th ANNIVERSARY TOUR AND STUDIO ALBUM TO FOLLOW EARLY NEXT YEAR… With a reputation forged in fire, brimstone and magic, Killing Joke have long been one of rock's most iconic & influential outfits. Now, 30 years since first bonding in blood, the original line-up of Jaz Coleman (vocals), Geordie (guitar), Youth (bass) and Paul Ferguson(drums) are set to start work on their 13th studio album - the first fruits of a new worldwide deal with the Spinefarm Records label. Set for release in April 2010, this latest set of recordings (title to be confirmed) will see the aforementioned musicians sharing studio space for the first time in 27 years, having already road-tested their relationship with sold-out shows around the world, kicking off in Tokyo last Autumn. Over the years, the band members have chosen to develop their talents in a variety of ways: triple Grammy winner Jaz Coleman, for instance, has established an international reputation working with some of the world's greatest symphony orchestras, whilst Martin 'Youth' Glover has become one of the UK's most celebrated producers, supervising albums from the Verve & Primal Scream amongst others, as well as achieving major success as one half of highly-regarded duo, The Orb. Covered by Metallica, Foo Fighters and more, Killing Joke's apocalyptic vision continues to draw praise from such high-profile supporters as Jimmy Page and Billy Corgan, and the band's considerable musical legacy can be heard in the works of Nirvana, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and the like - artists whose rise to fame never saw them cutting ties with the underground/alternative scene. Once described by Paul Ferguson as 'the sound of the earth vomiting', Killing Joke are now poised to take their music of resistance to a whole new level, both in the studio and on the road. As ever, the journey won't be easily forgotten… whether those involved wish to do so or not! APRIL 2010 TOUR 15 - (UK) Picture House, Edinburgh [Tickets] 16 - (UK) Hammersmith Apollo, London [Tickets] 19 - (Fr) Bataclan, Paris [Tickets] 20 - (Be) AB Main Hall, Brussels [Tickets] 21 - (NL) Melkweg, Amsterdam [Tickets] 23 - (D) Werkstatt, Cologne [Tickets] 24 - (D) Grunspan, Hamburg [Tickets] 26 - (CZ) Lucerna Music Bar, Prague [Tickets] 27 - (PL) Mega Club, Katowictz [Tickets] 28 - (PL) Palladium, Warsaw [Tickets] 29 - (FI) Nosturi, Helsinki [Tickets] ...because strange is what we need The Fandorin Foto Files
fandorin		#19	[-]
Posts: 5893 (02/21/2010 15:06) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	album's gonna be called "Killing Joke 13 - Feast Of Fools", out on a Finnish metal label (!), Spinefarm.... Here's a great article - "The new songs they play us suggest a return to KJ mark1 with equally strong personalities pulling in different directions and plenty of the songs have echoes of tracks such as 'Pssyche', 'Requiem' or 'The Fall Of Because' but really have a much more modern feel. On 'European Superstate' (an admittedly guitar free mix) there is a very tough DFA disco punk feel with hard house/EBM overtones almost as if it were John Foxx and LCD Soundsystem working on 'Open Up' instead of Lydon and Leftfield. Elsewhere 'This World Hell' calls to mind KJ followers Godflesh or perhaps even Justin Broadrick's most recent project the free industrial grind jazz of Greymachine or the post metal of Neurosis, with straight up metal breakdowns galore. There is also a freer element to Geordie's oppressive grind and dampened chord clangour on 'Depth Charge'. It's hard not speculate that the precision propulsion tribalsim of Paul Ferguson and bass space carved out by Youth have spurred the band on to greater heights. Best of the bunch however is 'Absolute Dissent'. Youth, who is actually hearing the mixed down version for the first time as we do, whistles afterwards saying "That has made my Christmas hearing Jaz's vocals on that." ...because strange is what we need The Fandorin Foto Files
fandorin		#20	[-]
Posts: 5893 (08/18/2010 07:55) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Join forum supporters Remove this ad ...because strange is what we need The Fandorin Foto Files Last Edited By: fandorin 08/18/2010 07:59. Edited 1 times.

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